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Final outcome of representation elections
| Participating unions | Total elections | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elec-tions in which no rep-resent-ative chosen | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | In elec-tions where no rep-resent-ative chosen | |
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| Participating unions | Total elec-tions | Per-cent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Team-sters | Other na-tional unions | Other local unions | Elec-tions in which no rep-resent-ative chosen | Total | In elec-tions won by | In units won by | In units won by | In units won by | In units won by | In elec-tions where no rep-resent-ative chosen |
| Participating unions | Total elec-tions | Per-cent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Team-sters | Other na-tional unions | Other local unions | Elec-tions in which no rep-resent-ative chosen | Total | In elec-tions won by | AFL-CIO unions | Team-sters | Other na-tional unions | Other local unions | In elec-tions where no rep-resent-ative chosen |
| D Elections in RD cases | |||||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 577 | 26.5 | 153 | 153 | 424 | 31,725 | 13,060 | 13,060 | 18,665 | ||||||
| Teamsters | 210 | 15.7 | 33 | 33 | 177 | 8,782 | 1,660 | 1,660 | 7,122 | ||||||
| Other national unions | 39 | 15.4 | 6 | 6 | 33 | 1,080 | 440 | 640 | 409 | ||||||
| Other local unions | 27 | 18.5 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 640 | 151 | 151 | 342 | ||||||
| 1-union elections | 833 | 23.6 | 197 | 153 | 33 | 6 | 5 | 636 | 42,696 | 15,311 | 13,060 | 1,660 | 640 | 151 | 27,185 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 2 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 307 | 307 | 307 | ||||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 8 | 50 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 286 | 139 | 71 | 68 | 107 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. national | 3 | 66.7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 874 | 639 | 639 | 235 | |||||
| AFL-CIO v. local | 2 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 401 | 401 | 184 | 217 | ||||||
| Teamsters v. Teamsters | 5 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 732 | 312 | 312 | |||||||
| Local v. local | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 570 | 570 | 570 | ||||||||
| 2-union elections | 23 | 78.3 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2,710 | 2,368 | 562 | 380 | 639 | 787 | 342 |
| Total RD elections | 856 | 25.1 | 215 | 159 | 36 | 8 | 7 | 641 | 45,406 | 17,879 | 13,622 | 2,040 | 1,279 | 938 | 27,527 |
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Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.