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Union-shop authorization polls — outcome, eligible voters, and valid votes cast

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Division and State	Total number of polls	Number of polls — A.F. of L. affiliates authorized	Number of polls — C.I.O. affiliates authorized	Number of polls — Unaffiliated unions authorized	Number of polls — No union authorized	Employees eligible to vote	Total valid votes cast	Valid votes cast for union-shop by affiliation of petitioner — A.F. of L. affiliates	C.I.O. affiliates	Unaffiliated unions	Valid votes cast against union-shop	Employees in units authorizing union shop
New England	455	392	203	0	11	92,777	70,764	12,362	46,288	8,859	9,255	92,599
Maine	17	13	3	0	1	2,598	2,315	1,094	958	0	223	2,591
Massachusetts	264	180	24	0	5	65,000	57,000	7,979	38,896	3,341	1,652	8,907
Middle Atlantic	1,612	707	637	231	37	626,729	535,200	117,025	313,371	23,193	64,719	617,891
New York	717	365	204	99	12	192,932	159,558	96,276	54,290	8,418	9,302	187,975
New Jersey	359	164	109	61	10	77,266	64,447	8,416	41,047	8,235	6,992	72,110
Pennsylvania	540	178	304	64	9	356,601	284,222	12,331	218,034	6,540	48,425	357,716
East North Central	1,706	780	695	193	38	594,378	495,407	47,002	336,871	32,242	60,892	384,811
Ohio	504	220	208	47	19	234,311	206,501	15,820	153,994	10,250	26,398	153,754
West North Central	606	320	150	36	9	37,988	29,000	10,125	14,992	2,328	3,738	36,378
South Atlantic	164	94	35	12	4	55,338	46,890	6,295	35,756	980	3,859	58,311

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Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.