NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2005 › Final outcome of representation elections in cases closed
| Total elections | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections in which no representative chosen | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | In units won by | In units won by | In units won by | In elections where no representative chosen | ||
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| Total elections | Percent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Other national unions | Other local unions | Elections in which no representative chosen | Total | In elections won | AFL-CIO unions | Other national unions | Other local unions | In elections where no representative chosen | |
| A. All representation elections | |||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 2,275 | 53.8 | 1,224 | 1,224 | 1,051 | 148,596 | 63,288 | 63,288 | 85,310 | ||||
| Other national unions | 108 | 62 | 67 | 1 | 66 | 41 | 5,480 | 2,505 | 46 | 2,459 | |||
| Other local unions | 86 | 61.6 | 53 | 53 | 33 | 5,479 | 3,513 | 1,966 | |||||
| 1-union elections | 2,469 | 54.4 | 1,344 | 1,224 | 54 | 66 | 1,125 | 159,557 | 69,306 | 63,288 | 3,559 | 2,459 | 90,251 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 90 | 82.2 | 74 | 74 | 16 | 4,487 | 3,306 | 3,306 | 1,181 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. Other national | 37 | 97.3 | 36 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 7,874 | 7,868 | 3,143 | 4,725 | 6 | ||
| AFL-CIO v. Other local | 9 | 100 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 1,386 | 1,386 | ||||||
| Local v. Local | 9 | 88.9 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1,030 | 998 | 998 | 32 | ||||
| National v. Local | 20 | 95 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 1,688 | 1,638 | 886 | 752 | 50 | ||
| National v. National | 8 | 87.5 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 603 | 587 | 16 | |||||
| 2-union elections | 173 | 88.4 | 153 | 94 | 22 | 37 | 20 | 17,068 | 15,781 | 6,507 | 2,801 | 6,475 | 1,285 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 188 | 188 | 188 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Other national | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 27 | 27 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Other local v. Local | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Local v. Local v. Local | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 22 | |||||||
| National v. National v. National | 2 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 52 | 52 | 52 | ||||||
| 3 (or more)-union elections | 7 | 100 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 294 | 294 | 215 | 52 | 27 | ||
| Total representation elections | 2,649 | 56.8 | 1,504 | 1,321 | 78 | 105 | 1,145 | 176,919 | 85,383 | 70,010 | 6,412 | 8,961 | 91,536 |
| B. Elections in RC cases | |||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 1,890 | 58.1 | 1,099 | 1,099 | 791 | 124,132 | 50,126 | 50,126 | 74,006 | ||||
| Other national unions | 90 | 67.8 | 61 | 1 | 60 | 29 | 4,817 | 2,055 | 46 | 2,009 | 2,762 | ||
| Other local unions | 73 | 67.1 | 49 | 49 | 24 | 4,522 | 2,974 | 1,548 |
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.