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Union-shop authorization polls — by State

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Division and State	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Employees eligible to vote	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast
Division and State	Total	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — A F L	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — C I O	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — Unaffiliated unions	Union-shop rejected	Employees eligible to vote	Total	In favor of union-shop by affiliation of petitioning union — A F L	In favor of union-shop by affiliation of petitioning union — C I O	In favor of union-shop by affiliation of petitioning union — Unaffiliated unions	Against union-shop
Virginia	205	178	8	15	4	57,841	49,206	20,165	25,114	1,011	2,874
West Virginia	98	57	29	7	4	21,124	17,938	6,170	5,389	699	5,290
North Carolina	16	5	4	1	0	2,063	1,769	353	1,194	29	60
South Carolina	30	22	4	0	1	11,778	10,074	5,393	1,420	0	3,261
Georgia	56	43	0	5	5	10,055	8,738	5,749	9	1,053	604
Florida	58	40	12	13	0	8,734	7,439	3,300	3,036	0	1,103
East South Central	831	670	115	70	26	150,688	126,150	62,492	49,050	5,971	8,870
Kentucky	222	127	44	42	17	65,577	57,402	36,322	13,061	4,203	4,029
Tennessee	317	243	47	21	6	53,011	42,030	11,890	21,890	39	3,711
Alabama	265	192	30	33	3	30,037	24,890	13,400	10,294	1,196	1,701
Mississippi	73	59	1	11	1	5,063	4,028	1,180	1,400	549	405
West South Central	831	622	78	59	43	63,134	57,719	23,587	15,300	3,802	3,287
Arkansas	1	82	1	9	3	6,500	5,791	1,820	1,005	0	390
Louisiana	279	200	30	20	20	12,500	10,003	5,182	1,239	2,253	1,329
Oklahoma	94	94	13	2	0	9,096	8,237	5,420	1,196	10	303
Texas	297	227	23	31	20	35,038	33,288	11,165	11,860	1,049	1,265
Mountain	1,450	1,174	124	144	23	85,894	75,879	37,591	26,761	10,761	6,942
Pacific	8,236	5,797	983	1,235	309	683,380	590,921	364,743	107,138	74,977	46,603
Washington	1,595	1,174	166	213	60	138,019	117,857	84,902	13,633	12,734	6,588
Oregon	1,541	1,006	323	147	65	97,800	84,202	51,494	21,314	9,856	9,888
California	5,100	3,602	401	824	192	447,561	388,862	228,346	72,191	50,825	31,771
Outlying areas	411	126	23	242	19	42,758	22,766	10,228	29,151	1,700	17,237
Alaska	40	34	1	1	1	1,000	893	688	33	0	144
Hawaii	43	29	4	1	5	5,500	4,372	3,194	705	117	236
Puerto Rico	328	63	18	240	13	36,258	17,501	6,346	28,413	1,720	16,857

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Source page 320 of NLRB FY1952 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1952, p. 320.

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