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'''New York City''' is a really big city in the southeast corner of [[New York]] with a really Long Island sticking out of the side of it.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island</ref> Not to be confused with [[New York|the package that it comes in]].
==Single transferable vote==
To weaken the party machine that was controlling New York City, progressive forces pushed for the adoption of [[STV]] there, and STV was adopted by voters of the city in 1936. Before this change, Democrats would win above 90% of the seats on the Board of Aldermen; in the first election after [[proportional representation]], in 1941, the Democrats won 65.5% of the seats with 64% of the vote, with four other parties also being represented.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/public_history/PR/|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070425175237/http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/public_history/PR/|archive-date=2007-04-25|title=Who's Got the Power? Proportional Representation in New York City, 1936-1947|website=NYU Department of History|first=Dan|last=Prosterman}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/fairvote/pages/6914/attachments/original/1562779453/pdf-version-pr-in-new-york-infogram-report-images.pdf?1562779453|title=Proportional Representation In New York City|website=FairVote|access-date=2022-04-01|first1=Jesse|last1=Docter|first2=Theodore|last2=Landsman}}</ref>
The Democratic party machine fought back and managed to repeal the method in 1947, using red-baiting tactics. In the New York Post in 1947, Tammany Hall leader Frank J. Sampson called STV "This Stalin Frankenstein system" and "a foreign political theory that has created confusion with the blessing of the Kremlin".<ref name="Zeller Bone 1948 pp. 1127–1148">{{cite journal | last=Zeller | first=Belle | last2=Bone | first2=Hugh A. | title=The Repeal of P.R. in New York City—Ten Years in Retrospect | journal=American Political Science Review | publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) | volume=42 | issue=6 | year=1948 | issn=0003-0554 | doi=10.2307/1950618 | pages=1127–1148}}</ref>
After the repeal, the old arrangement quickly restored itself: in 1949, the Democratic party won 24 of the 25 seats.<ref name="rosaclot2008">{{cite journal|last=Rosa-Clot|first=Michele|title=This Stalin Frankenstein System: Adoption and Abrogation of Proportional Representation in New York City, 1936-1947|journal=Rivista di Studi Americani|year=2008|volume=17|issue=18|pages=201-240|url=https://www.aisna.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/17_18rosaclot.pdf}}</ref>
=== Board of Aldermen party diversity with FPTP and STV ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[Effective number of parties#Entropy measure|Effective number of parties (entropy measure)]]
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! Year !! Voting method !! Effective number of parties by votes !! Effective number of parties by seats
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| 1931 || [[First past the post]] || 2.39 || 1.08
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| 1933 || [[First past the post]] || 2.74 || 1.75
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| 1935 || [[First past the post]] || 2.38 || 1.21
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| 1937 || [[Single transferable vote]] || 4.24 || 4.23
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| 1939 || [[Single transferable vote]] || 3.00 || 2.98
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| 1941 || [[Single transferable vote]] || 3.10 || 3.00
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| 1943 || [[Single transferable vote]] || 3.28 || 3.07
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| 1945 || [[Single transferable vote]] || 3.42 || 3.39
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| 1949 || [[First past the post]] || 3.56 || 1.18
|}
==References==
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