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Final outcome of representation elections in cases closed

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Participating unions	Total elections	Percent won	Elections won by unions — Total	Elections won by unions — AFL-CIO unions	Elections won by unions — Teamsters	Elections won by unions — Other national unions	Elections won by unions — Other local unions	Elections in which no representative chosen	Employees eligible to vote — Total	Employees eligible to vote — In elections won	Employees eligible to vote — In units won by AFL-CIO unions	Employees eligible to vote — In units won by Teamsters	Employees eligible to vote — In units won by Other national unions	Employees eligible to vote — In units won by Other local unions	In elections where no representative chosen
Teamsters v. Teamsters v. Teamsters	1	100	1		1				30	30		30
3 (or more)-union elections	47	89.9	38	18	12	2	6	9	7,656	6,276	2,433	2,807	270	766	1,380
All representation elections	9,369	51.4	4,786	2,581	1,542	316	277	4,583	454,646	233,874	148,205	53,438	23,116	19,015	307,571
B. Elections in RC cases — AFL-CIO	3,509	63.4	2,224	2,224				1,285	291,269	113,177	113,177				178,092
Teamsters	2,704	50.2	1,358		1,358			1,346	85,398	32,556		32,556			54,132
Other national unions	400	60.5	242			242		158	26,510	14,703			14,703		8,516
Other local unions	388	60.4	174				174	152							9,372
1-union elections — Total	7,945	50.9	4,047	2,224	1,358	242	174	3,899	435,968	158,932	113,177	32,556	14,703	8,516	267,916
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO (2-union)	139	65.5	91	91	0	0	0	48	14,419	7,270	7,270	0	0	0	7,149
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters (2-union)	174	75.3	131	67	64	0	0	43	9,891	7,054	2,852	4,202	0	0	2,358
AFL-CIO v. national (2-union)	82	59.8	37	27	0	10	0	31	13,272	11,072	6,200	0	4,872	0	1,754
AFL-CIO v. local (2-union)	14	78.6	11	9	0	0	2	3	841	626	525	0	0	101	215
Teamsters v. national (2-union)	35	91.4	32	0	27	5	0	2	2,250	2,118	0	1,952	192	0	132
Teamsters v. local (2-union)	7	71.4	5	0	3	0	2	2	1,082	950	0	192	0	758	132
National v. national (2-union)	5	60	3	0	0	3	0	2	750	646	0	0	646	0	104
Local v. local (2-union)	12	100	12	0	0	0	12	0
2-union elections — Total	540	78.1	422	205	88	57	72	118	62,535	42,377	20,667	7,188	5,662	8,860	20,158
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO (3-union)	9	77.8	7	7	0	0	0	2	365	319	319	0	0	0	246

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Source page 244 of NLRB FY1973 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1973, p. 244.

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