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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 ===
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