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Decertification Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, Fiscal Year 1961

printed as Table 14 · source page 246 · nlrb1961_p0246_t0

Union affiliationElections participated inEmployees involved in elections (number eligible to vote)Valid votes cast
Union affiliationTotalResulting in certificationResulting in decertificationTotal eligibleResulting in certificationResulting in decertificationTotalPercent of total eligibleCast for the union
Union affiliationTotalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalTotal eligibleNumberPercent of total eligibleNumberPercent of total eligibleTotalPercent of total eligibleNumberPercent of total cast
Total2418033.216166.818,3647,75742.210,60757.816,60490.49,03454.4
AFL-CIO1625936.410363.614,8985,24735.29,65164.813,52790.86,87150.8
Unaffiliated792126.65873.43,4662,51072.495627.63,07788.82,16370.3

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Reader’s notes

p. 246. 15 columns: stub plus 5 under "Elections participated in", 5 under "Employees involved in elections (number eligible to vote)", and 4 under "Valid votes cast". No footnotes are printed under the table. Decimal points: the scan is a coarse bitonal image in which the decimal point of every percentage has largely dropped out, so the percentages read on screen as "33 2", "66 8", etc. They are one-decimal percentages in the printed table and are transcribed with the decimal point restored (33.2, 66.8, ...). Two percentage cells were degraded enough that the digits themselves needed checking; both were confirmed by arithmetic against the counts in the same row: Total row, "Employees involved ... Resulting in decertification / Percent of total eligible" reads 57.8 (10,607/18,364 = 57.8, and 42.2 + 57.8 = 100.0) though the leading 5 is blotted and could be misread as an 8; Unaffiliated row, "Valid votes cast / Cast for the union / Percent of total cast" has an illegible final digit, read as 70.3 (2,163/3,077 = 70.3). No printed value appears to be a misprint: all column sums check (162 + 79 = 241; 59 + 21 = 80; 103 + 58 = 161; 14,898 + 3,466 = 18,364; 5,247 + 2,510 = 7,757; 9,651 + 956 = 10,607; 13,527 + 3,077 = 16,604; 6,871 + 2,163 = 9,034), and the certification/decertification components add to each total. These checks were used only to confirm doubtful glyphs; nothing was computed or substituted.

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Source page 246 of NLRB FY1961 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1961, p. 246.

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.