NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1949 › Geographic distribution of collective bargaining elections, eligible voters, and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1949
Stitched from pp. 196–197.
| Division and State | Number of elections | Elections won by— | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast for— | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division and State | Number of elections | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | No union | Eligible voters | Total | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | No union |
| New England | 446 | 159 | 82 | 55 | 150 | 64,877 | 58,885 | 11,687 | 22,142 | 10,623 | 14,433 |
| Maine | 42 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 7,653 | 7,187 | 1,518 | 1,375 | 799 | 3,495 |
| New Hampshire | 35 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 4,051 | 3,765 | 608 | 1,088 | 458 | 1,611 |
| Vermont | 23 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 1,638 | 1,427 | 234 | 602 | 0 | 591 |
| Massachusetts | 220 | 100 | 35 | 20 | 65 | 26,630 | 24,361 | 5,919 | 8,620 | 5,561 | 4,261 |
| Rhode Island | 52 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 2,902 | 2,694 | 349 | 698 | 539 | 1,108 |
| Connecticut | 74 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 24 | 22,003 | 19,451 | 3,059 | 9,759 | 3,266 | 3,367 |
| Middle Atlantic | 1,117 | 444 | 198 | 213 | 262 | 157,833 | 137,393 | 34,943 | 37,507 | 35,951 | 28,992 |
| New York | 565 | 221 | 102 | 122 | 120 | 75,992 | 65,682 | 16,648 | 14,932 | 19,609 | 14,493 |
| New Jersey | 207 | 61 | 48 | 48 | 50 | 51,429 | 44,310 | 11,867 | 14,208 | 12,108 | 6,127 |
| Pennsylvania | 345 | 162 | 48 | 43 | 92 | 30,412 | 27,401 | 6,428 | 8,367 | 4,234 | 8,372 |
| East North Central | 1,256 | 393 | 207 | 261 | 395 | 134,454 | 116,360 | 25,012 | 40,839 | 18,929 | 31,580 |
| Ohio | 340 | 111 | 50 | 65 | 114 | 44,826 | 38,322 | 6,926 | 15,573 | 5,350 | 10,473 |
| Indiana | 186 | 59 | 39 | 28 | 60 | 22,581 | 19,559 | 4,327 | 6,700 | 2,743 | 5,789 |
| Illinois | 362 | 132 | 33 | 76 | 121 | 38,725 | 33,172 | 6,912 | 12,304 | 5,257 | 8,699 |
| Michigan | 278 | 47 | 73 | 73 | 85 | 20,546 | 18,400 | 4,617 | 5,164 | 3,619 | 5,000 |
| Wisconsin | 90 | 44 | 12 | 19 | 15 | 7,776 | 6,907 | 2,230 | 1,098 | 1,960 | 1,619 |
| West North Central | 542 | 235 | 63 | 119 | 125 | 42,397 | 36,654 | 9,721 | 13,351 | 5,690 | 7,892 |
| Iowa | 56 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 13,252 | 11,411 | 654 | 8,006 | 1,239 | 1,512 |
| Minnesota | 100 | 45 | 12 | 19 | 24 | 5,129 | 4,658 | 2,403 | 836 | 548 | 871 |
| Missouri | 266 | 106 | 29 | 71 | 60 | 19,260 | 16,420 | 5,260 | 3,403 | 3,252 | 4,505 |
| North Dakota | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 503 | 381 | 151 | 181 | 10 | 39 |
| South Dakota | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 277 | 251 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 97 |
| Nebraska | 34 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 2,065 | 1,864 | 549 | 783 | 82 | 450 |
| Kansas | 72 | 35 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 1,911 | 1,669 | 550 | 142 | 559 | 418 |
| South Atlantic | 436 | 136 | 95 | 48 | 157 | 61,461 | 54,330 | 11,060 | 15,528 | 6,650 | 21,092 |
| Delaware | 10 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 335 | 306 | 57 | 178 | 0 | 71 |
| Maryland | 52 | 24 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 9,403 | 7,887 | 1,457 | 3,097 | 1,706 | 1,627 |
| District of Columbia | 21 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 677 | 626 | 158 | 8 | 103 | 357 |
| Virginia | 66 | 23 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 17,234 | 15,219 | 1,814 | 4,068 | 3,572 | 5,765 |
| West Virginia | 45 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 7,857 | 6,808 | 910 | 2,743 | 94 | 3,061 |
| North Carolina | 62 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 26 | 6,424 | 5,945 | 874 | 1,445 | 237 | 3,389 |
| South Carolina | 25 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 4,888 | 4,494 | 1,267 | 1,219 | 153 | 1,855 |
| Georgia | 89 | 25 | 24 | 4 | 36 | 10,712 | 9,583 | 3,342 | 2,162 | 89 | 3,990 |
| Florida | 66 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 22 | 3,931 | 3,462 | 1,181 | 608 | 696 | 977 |
| East South Central | 289 | 105 | 60 | 17 | 107 | 29,014 | 26,234 | 7,681 | 7,919 | 1,691 | 8,943 |
| Kentucky | 84 | 41 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 7,779 | 7,095 | 2,982 | 1,318 | 585 | 2,210 |
| Tennessee | 97 | 29 | 26 | 5 | 37 | 10,337 | 9,254 | 2,112 | 2,648 | 961 | 3,533 |
| Alabama | 67 | 19 | 20 | 3 | 25 | 4,649 | 4,185 | 932 | 1,372 | 112 | 1,769 |
| Mississippi | 41 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 13 | 6,249 | 5,700 | 1,655 | 2,581 | 33 | 1,431 |
| West South Central | 405 | 169 | 72 | 39 | 125 | 37,804 | 33,377 | 11,644 | 9,466 | 1,943 | 10,324 |
| Arkansas | 66 | 33 | 12 | 5 | 16 | 6,713 | 5,995 | 2,666 | 1,164 | 293 | 1,872 |
| Louisiana | 64 | 29 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 5,245 | 4,641 | 1,823 | 1,415 | 404 | 999 |
| Oklahoma | 58 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 25 | 5,833 | 5,159 | 1,598 | 1,362 | 48 | 2,151 |
| Texas | 217 | 85 | 45 | 21 | 66 | 20,013 | 17,582 | 5,557 | 5,525 | 1,198 | 5,302 |
| Mountain | 219 | 115 | 18 | 14 | 72 | 9,332 | 8,457 | 3,391 | 1,348 | 869 | 2,849 |
| Montana | 20 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 380 | 330 | 141 | 48 | 1 | 140 |
| Idaho | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 327 | 290 | 181 | 14 | 0 | 95 |
| Wyoming | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 771 | 702 | 27 | 117 | 472 | 86 |
| Colorado | 82 | 44 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 4,574 | 4,095 | 1,780 | 718 | 52 | 1,545 |
| New Mexico | 39 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1,087 | 1,009 | 502 | 12 | 209 | 286 |
| Arizona | 16 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 579 | 512 | 311 | 12 | 8 | 181 |
| Utah | 41 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 1,513 | 1,429 | 378 | 427 | 120 | 504 |
| Nevada | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 101 | 90 | 71 | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| Pacific | 725 | 326 | 63 | 114 | 222 | 45,672 | 40,067 | 15,348 | 7,382 | 5,575 | 11,762 |
| Washington | 97 | 54 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 7,132 | 6,564 | 3,871 | 75 | 542 | 2,076 |
| Oregon | 126 | 59 | 21 | 10 | 36 | 4,092 | 3,561 | 1,801 | 984 | 127 | 649 |
| California | 502 | 213 | 39 | 84 | 166 | 34,448 | 29,942 | 9,676 | 6,323 | 4,906 | 9,037 |
| Outlying areas | 79 | 10 | 0 | 59 | 10 | 5,917 | 4,491 | 858 | 0 | 2,612 | 1,021 |
| Alaska | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hawaii | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 316 | 284 | 49 | 0 | 37 | 198 |
| Puerto Rico | 69 | 7 | 0 | 56 | 6 | 5,601 | 4,207 | 809 | 0 | 2,575 | 823 |
647 of 647 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 196. The crop ends mid-table: the body stops after "Virginia" in the South Atlantic section, and the remaining divisions (rest of South Atlantic, East/West South Central, Mountain, Pacific, and any U.S. total) continue on the following page. The footnote marker "1" is printed on the stub heading "Division and State", but the footnote text itself is not on this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Column headings: the periods in the "A. F. of L." and "C. I. O." headings are faint/inconsistently inked in the scan (the "Elections won by—" panel reads closer to "A F. of L" and "C. I. O", the "Valid votes cast for—" panel closer to "A F. of L." and "C. I. O."); I have rendered both panels with the standard full punctuation. Minor scan artifacts, not transcribed: a stray comma-like speck after "23" in the Virginia / A. F. of L. elections-won cell; a stray tick mark just left of "6,650" in the South Atlantic / Unaffiliated unions valid-votes cell; a dot above the final digit of "13,252" (Iowa / Eligible voters); and a short pen-like stroke in the stub next to "South Dakota". Vertical running text in the right margin ("Appendix A. Statistical Tables Covering Fiscal Year 1949") is page furniture and was omitted. Arithmetic was not checked or corrected; all figures are as printed. Note for the reader that in this table the division lines (New England, Middle Atlantic, etc.) are subtotal rows printed above their constituent States, not data rows.
p. 197. The crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 12 columns (stub plus 11 numeric columns), counted from the vertical column rules. The first five rows (West Virginia through Florida) are the tail of a regional group whose total line sits on the preceding page; the table is therefore cut off at the top. Layout note: each regional total line (East South Central, West South Central, Mountain, Pacific, Outlying areas) is printed ABOVE its member States, set off by double rules, and is transcribed in that printed order. Print artifacts, none transcribed: a small comma-like speck sits between columns 1 and 2 on the West Virginia row; a stray dot precedes "64" on the Louisiana row (column 1); a faint diagonal pen/scan stroke crosses the Texas row near columns 3-4; a stray tick precedes "21" in the Texas column-4 cell. I read these as stray marks, not footnote markers or digits. Arithmetic check (not used to alter any cell): every regional total shown here equals the sum of its listed member States in all 11 numeric columns, which corroborates the column assignments.
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.