New York's 11th congressional district
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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, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Kensington. The Frederick Law Olmstead / Calvert Vaux-designed Prospect Park, 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.
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[edit] Components: Past and Present
1983-present:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1971-1983:
1963-1971:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1953-1963:
1945-1953:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1913-1945:
- All of Staten Island
- Parts of Manhattan
[edit] Representatives
- James J. Heffernan, Democrat, January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1953 (redistricted from 5th district)
- Emanuel Celler, Democrat, January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1963 (redistricted from 15th district, redistricted to 10th district)
- Eugene J. Keogh, Democrat, January 3, 1963 - January 3, 1967 (redistricted from 9th district)
- Frank J. Brasco, Democrat, January 3, 1967 - January 3, 1975
- James H. Scheuer, Democrat, January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1983 (redistricted to 8th district)
- Edolphus Towns, Democrat, January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1993 (redistricted to 10th district)
- Major R. Owens, Democrat, January 3, 1993 - January 3, 2007 (redistricted from 12th district)
- Yvette Clarke, Democrat, 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.
[edit] 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").
| 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 | Catrell 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 | |||
[edit] Trivia
The district was the subject of The Colbert Report's Better Know A District segment on December 15, 2005.
[edit] References
- 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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