NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1954 › Voting in Collective-Bargaining Elections in Which a Representative Was Chosen, Fiscal Year 1954
| Affiliation of participating unions | Employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Percent casting valid votes | Valid votes cast for winning union | Valid votes cast for losing union | Valid votes cast for no union | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation of participating unions | Employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Percent casting valid votes | A. F. L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | A. F. L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | Valid votes cast for no union |
| Total | 343,092 | 295,949 | 86.3 | 82,892 | 70,009 | 53,438 | 19,838 | 22,424 | 13,467 | 33,881 |
| 1-union elections: | ||||||||||
| A. F. L. | 72,259 | 61,562 | 85.2 | 48,310 | 13,252 | |||||
| C. I. O. | 52,339 | 46,590 | 89.0 | 34,014 | 12,576 | |||||
| Unaffiliated | 18,802 | 15,485 | 82.4 | 12,478 | 3,007 | |||||
| 2-union elections: | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.-C. I. O. | 62,873 | 55,907 | 88.9 | 18,040 | 17,849 | 7,788 | 9,711 | 2,519 | ||
| A. F. L.-unaffiliated | 31,807 | 25,602 | 80.5 | 6,204 | 10,821 | 5,163 | 3,038 | 376 | ||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L. | 13,737 | 11,343 | 82.6 | 7,693 | 3,231 | 419 | ||||
| C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 58,301 | 51,043 | 87.6 | 13,228 | 18,032 | 10,222 | 8,995 | 566 | ||
| C. I. O.-C. I. O. | 346 | 294 | 85.0 | 210 | 2 | 82 | ||||
| Unaffiliated-unaffiliated | 1,782 | 1,475 | 82.8 | 1,112 | 321 | 42 | ||||
| 3-union elections: | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 19,107 | 17,122 | 89.6 | 313 | 2,773 | 8,391 | 2,421 | 2,050 | 622 | 552 |
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L. | 140 | 128 | 91.4 | 85 | 43 | 0 | ||||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-C. I. O. | 4,836 | 4,134 | 85.5 | 849 | 1,766 | 795 | 323 | 401 | ||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-unaffiliated | 3,064 | 2,568 | 83.8 | 4 | 2,204 | 343 | 0 | 17 | ||
| C. I. O.-unaffiliated-unaffiliated | 591 | 555 | 93.9 | 0 | 330 | 48 | 177 | 0 | ||
| C. I. O.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 89 | 83 | 93.3 | 0 | 48 | 35 | 0 | 0 | ||
| A. F. L.-unaffiliated-unaffiliated | 2,000 | 1,143 | 57.2 | 965 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 54 | ||
| Unaffiliated-unaffiliated-unaffiliated | 38 | 36 | 94.7 | 22 | 14 | 0 | ||||
| 4-union elections: | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.-unaffiliated | 41 | 36 | 87.8 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 675 | 644 | 95.4 | 399 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 30 | 157 | 10 |
| A. F. L.-C. I. O.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 265 | 199 | 75.1 | 0 | 169 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 4 |
120 of 120 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 179. Eleven columns: stub, three summary columns, three columns under "Valid votes cast for winning union", three under "Valid votes cast for losing union", and a tall single "Valid votes cast for no union". Decimal points in the "Percent casting valid votes" column are faint or dropped in several rows of the scan (Total prints as "86 3", and likewise "85 2", "89 0", "82 6", "83 8"). All are one-decimal percents and each reproduces its own row's quotient of total valid votes cast over employees eligible to vote (e.g. 295,949/343,092 = 86.26), so they are transcribed with the decimal point. Empty vote cells are printed as dash rules ("------") and are transcribed as "". Printed zeros are kept as 0 and are distinct from those dash rules — e.g. in "A. F. L.-unaffiliated-unaffiliated" the winning-unaffiliated and losing-A. F. L. cells print 0 while the C. I. O. cells are dash rules. Arithmetic check: all ten numeric columns sum from the body rows to the printed Total row exactly (eligible 343,092; valid votes cast 295,949; winning 82,892 / 70,009 / 53,438; losing 19,838 / 22,424 / 13,467; no union 33,881), and the seven vote columns sum across to 295,949. No misprints detected. The footnote marker 1 appears on the caption, which is excluded per instructions; the footnote text itself is printed below the table and is retained. The footnote has no closing period as printed.
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.