NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1972 › Valid votes cast in representation elections, in cases closed
Valid votes cast in representation elections, in cases closed
| Participating unions | Total valid votes cast | Valid votes cast in elections won | Valid votes cast in elections won | Valid votes cast in elections won | Valid votes cast in elections won | Valid votes cast in elections won | Valid votes cast in elections won | Valid votes cast in elections lost | Valid votes cast in elections lost | Valid votes cast in elections lost | Valid votes cast in elections lost | Valid votes cast in elections lost | Valid votes cast in elections lost |
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| Participating unions | Total valid votes cast | Total | Votes for unions | Votes for unions | Votes for unions | Votes for unions | Total votes for no union | Total | Votes for unions | Votes for unions | Votes for unions | Votes for unions | Total votes for no union |
| Participating unions | Total valid votes cast | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Total votes for no union | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Total votes for no union |
| A. All representation elections—Continued | |||||||||||||
| 3 (or more)-union elections | 27,248 | 23,908 | 8,905 | 1,990 | 2,135 | 11,778 | 1,353 | 652 | 589 | 49 | 14 | 1,333 | |
| Total representation elections | 519,477 | 204,464 | 111,000 | 27,264 | 20,445 | 44,556 | 51,075 | 62,156 | 62,517 | 16,485 | 10,193 | 3,451 | 171,402 |
| B. Elections in RC cases | |||||||||||||
| 1-union elections (RC) | 390,248 | 85,927 | 60,817 | 15,416 | 6,911 | 2,783 | 41,682 | 82,272 | 56,175 | 14,066 | 9,600 | 2,431 | 150,387 |
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Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.