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New York's 11th congressional district 
Current Representative Yvette Clarke (D–Brooklyn) Distribution 100.00% urban, 0.00% rural Population (2000) 654,360 Median income $34,082 Ethnicity 24.9% White, 61.2% Black, 4.2% Asian, 12.1% Hispanic, 0.3% Native American, 2.6% other Cook PVI D+38 New York's 11th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in Brooklyn. It includes the neighborhoods of Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Prospect Park (designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux), Grand Army Plaza and the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, the worldwide headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community and the Brooklyn Children's Museum are located within this district, as well as, in the Prospect Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Central Library, or main branch, of the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Kurdish Library and Museum. It is currently represented by Democrat Yvette Clarke, and is the nation's third smallest district by area.
Contents
Voting
Election results from presidential races Year Office Results 2008 President Obama 91 - 9% 2004 President Kerry 86 - 13% 2000 President Gore 83 - 9% Components: Past and Present
1983–present:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1971-1983:
- Parts of Brooklyn, Queens
1963-1971:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1953-1963:
- Parts of Brooklyn, Queens
1945-1953:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1913-1945:
- All of Staten Island
- Parts of Manhattan
1903-1913:
- part of Central west Manhattan.
1893-1903:
- Lower East Side of Manhattan (part)
1885-1893:
- West Central Manhattan
1875-1885:
- Harlem and central Manhattan
1873-1875:
- Bronx and Westchester County
1863-1873:
1853-1863:
1843-1853:
- Columbia County and Greene County.
1833-1843:
- Schenectady and Saratoga Counties in New York.
1823-1833:
- Greene County and Delaware County.
1813-1823:
- Saratoga County
1809-1813:
- Oswego, Madison and Onieda Counties.
1803-1809:
- Saratoga County
- Franklin, Clinton and Essex Counties (non-contiguous).
List of representatives
Representative Party Years District Home Note District created 1803 Beriah Palmer Democratic-Republican March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 Peter Sailly Democratic-Republican March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1807 John Thompson Democratic-Republican March 4, 1807 - March 3, 1809 Thomas R. Gold Federalist March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1813 John W. Taylor Democratic-Republican March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1823 Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1820–1821, redistricted to 17th district Charles A. Foote Crawford Democratic-Republican March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1825 Henry Ashley Jacksonian March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1827 Selah R. Hobbie Jacksonian March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1829 Perkins King Jacksonian March 4, 1829 - March 3, 1831 Erastus Root Jacksonian March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 John Cramer Jacksonian March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1837 John I. De Graff Democratic March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Anson Brown Whig March 4, 1839 - June 14, 1840 died Vacant June 14, 1840 – December 7, 1840 Nicholas B. Doe Whig December 7, 1840 - March 3, 1841 Archibald L. Linn Whig March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 Zadock Pratt Democratic March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1845 John F. Collin Democratic March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1847 Peter H. Silvester Whig March 4, 1847 - March 3, 1851 Josiah Sutherland Democratic March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1853 Theodoric R. Westbrook Democratic March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Rufus H. King Opposition March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1857 William F. Russell Democratic March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1859 William S. Kenyon Republican March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1861 John B. Steele Democratic March 4, 1861 - March 3, 1863 redistricted to 13th district Charles H. Winfield Democratic March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867 Charles Van Wyck Republican March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1869 George W. Greene Democratic March 4, 1869 - February 17, 1870 Charles Van Wyck Republican February 17, 1870 - March 3, 1871 successfully challenged election of George W. Greene Charles St. John Republican March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1873 redistricted to 12th district Clarkson N. Potter Democratic March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 redistricted from 10th district Benjamin A. Willis Democratic March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1879 Levi P. Morton Republican March 4, 1879 - March 21, 1881 resigned to become US Minister to France Vacant March 21, 1881 – November 8, 1881 Roswell P. Flower Democratic November 8, 1881 - March 3, 1883 Orlando B. Potter Democratic March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 Truman A. Merriman Independent Democrat March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 Democratic March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889 John Quinn Democratic March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 John De Witt Warner Democratic March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 redistricted to 13th district Amos J. Cummings Democratic March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 redistricted from 9th district
redistricted to 10th districtWilliam Sulzer Democratic March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1903 redistricted to 10th district William Randolph Hearst Democratic March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1907 Charles V. Fornes Democratic March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1913 Daniel J. Riordan Democratic March 4, 1913 - April 28, 1923 redistricted from 8th district
diedVacant April 28, 1923 – November 6, 1923 Anning Smith Prall Democratic November 6, 1923 - January 3, 1935 James A. O'Leary Democratic January 3, 1935 - March 16, 1944 died Vacant March 16, 1944 – June 6, 1944 Ellsworth B. Buck Republican June 6, 1944 - January 3, 1945 redistricted to 16th district James J. Heffernan Democratic January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1953 redistricted from 5th district Emanuel Celler Democratic January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1963 redistricted from 15th district
redistricted to 10th districtEugene J. Keogh Democratic January 3, 1963 - January 3, 1967 redistricted from 9th district Frank J. Brasco Democratic January 3, 1967 - January 3, 1975 James H. Scheuer Democratic January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1983 redistricted to 8th district Edolphus Towns Democratic January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1993 redistricted to 10th district Major R. Owens Democratic January 3, 1993 - January 3, 2007 redistricted from 12th district Yvette Clarke Democratic January 3, 2007 – present The 11th is a Brooklyn-based district. In the 1992 redistricting much of the old 11th became the new 10th District and the new 11th absorbed much of the old 12th District.
Election results
Note that in New York State electoral politics there are numerous minor parties at various points on the political spectrum. Certain parties will invariably endorse either the Republican or Democratic candidate for every office, hence the state electoral results contain both the party votes, and the final candidate votes (Listed as "Recap"). (See Electoral fusion#New York.)
US House election, 2010: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Yvette Clarke 104,297 90.6 -2.2 Republican Hugh C. Carr 10,858 9.4 +3.0 Majority 93,439 81.1 -5.3 Turnout 115,155 100 -36.6 US House election, 2008: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Yvette Clarke 168,562 92.8 +2.8 Republican Hugh C. Carr 11,644 6.4 -1.2 Conservative Cartrell Gore 1,517 0.8 -0.6 Majority 156,918 86.4 +3.9 Turnout 181,723 100 +85.2 US House election, 2006: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Yvette Clarke 88,334 90.0 -4.0 Republican Stephen Finger 7,447 7.6 +7.6 Conservative Marianna Blume 1,325 1.4 -1.5 Freedom Ollie M. McClean 996 1.0 +1.0 Majority 80,887 82.5 -8.5 Turnout 98,102 100 -36.4 US House election, 2004: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Major R. Owens 144,999 94.0 +7.4 Independence Lorraine Stevens 4,721 3.1 +3.1 Conservative Sol Lieberman 4,478 2.9 +2.0 Majority 140,278 91.0 +17.0 Turnout 154,198 100 +73.5 US House election, 2002: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Major R. Owens 76,917 86.6 -0.4 Republican Susan Cleary 11,149 12.5 +6.0 Conservative Alice Gaffney 798 0.9 +0.2 Majority 65,768 74.0 -6.5 Turnout 88,864 100 -31.0 US House election, 2000: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Major R. Owens 112,050 87.0 -3.0 Republican Susan Cleary 8,406 6.5 -2.2 Liberal Una S.T. Clarke 7,366 5.7 +5.7 Conservative Cartrell Gore 962 0.7 +0.7 Majority 103,644 80.5 -0.8 Turnout 128,784 100 +52.9 US House election, 1998: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Major R. Owens 75,773 90.0 -2.0 Republican David Greene 7,284 8.7 +0.7 Independence Phyllis Taliaferro 1,144 1.4 +1.4 Majority 68,489 81.3 -2.6 Turnout 84,201 100 -13.9 US House election, 1996: New York District 11 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Major R. Owens 89,905 92.0 Republican Claudette Hayle 7,866 8.0 Majority 82,039 83.9 Turnout 97,771 100 Trivia
The district was the subject of The Colbert Report's Better Know A District segment on December 15, 2005.
An early-20th century 11th district was represented by the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst from 1903 to 1907.
References
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
- 2004 House election data Clerk of the House of Representatives
- 2002 House election data "
- 2000 House election data "
- 1998 House election data "
- 1996 House election data "
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The At-large and 30th-45th districts are obsolete.
See also: New York's past & present Representatives, Senators, and Delegations, 2010 elections, 2012 elections
All U.S. districts – Apportionment – Redistricting – Gerrymandering – MapsCategories:- Congressional districts of New York
- Politics of Brooklyn
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