Editing Three-Day Week (section)

===Results by NUM area===
Taken from John Douglass' ''Strike, not the end of the story'' (National Coal Mining Museum for England publications), p.24:

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="text-align:center" align=centre	
|+Voting figures for strike action (NUM)
|-	
! Area / ''Groups''
! Total votes
! Votes for strike action
! % of total votes
! Votes against strike action
! % of total votes
|-
| Yorkshire||      54,570|| 49,278 || 90.30 || 5,292 || 9.70
|-
| Nottinghamshire|| 28,284 || 21,801 || 77.08 || 6,483 || 22.92
|-
| South Wales ||   26,901 || 25,058 || 93.12 || 1,843 || 6.85
|-
| Durham || 17,341 || 14,862 || 85.70 || 2,479 || 14.30
|-
| C.O.S.A. ||   15,368 || 6,066 || 39.47 || 9,302 || 60.53
|-
| Scotland ||   16,587 || 14,497 || 87.40 || 2,090 || 12.60
|-
| Midlands (West) || 12,309 || 9,016 || 73.25 || 3,293 || 26.75
|-
| North Derbyshire || 10,679 || 9,242 || 86.54 || 1,437 || 13.46
|-
| North-West||   8,637 || 7,084 || 82.02 || 1,553 || 17.98
|-
| Northumberland ||   8,420 || 7,075 || 84.03 || 1,345 || 15.97
|-
| Durham mechanics || 5,937 || 4,590 || 77.31 || 1,347 || 22.69
|-
| Group no 2 (Scotland) || 4,834 || 3,929 || 81.28 || 905 || 18.72
|-
| Cokemen ||   4,583 || 3,076 || 67.12 || 1,507 || 32.88
|-
| Power Group || 3,981 || 2,239 || 56.24 || 1,742 || 43.76
|-
| South Derbyshire || 2,604 || 1,827 || 70.16 || 777 || 29.84
|-
| Leicestershire ||   2,519 || 1,553 || 61.65 || 966 || 38.35
|-
| Kent||   2,360 || 2,117 || 89.70 || 243 || 10.30
|-
| Northumberland mechanics || 2,191 || 1,816 || 82.88 || 375 || 17.12
|-
| North Wales || 1,200 || 952 || 79.33 || 248 || 20.67
|-
| Power group no 2 || 1,164 || 681 || 58.51 || 483 || 41.49
|-
| Durham enginemen || 896 || 543 || 60.60 || 353|| 39.40
|-
| Cumberland||  880 || 775 || 88.07 || 105 || 11.93
|-
| Yorkshire enginemen||   370 || 316 || 85.41 || 54|| 14.59
	
|-	
! Total || 232,615 || 188,393 || 80.99 || 44,222 || 19.01
|}