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 Major R. Owens. The district was the subject of The Colbert Report's Better Know A District segment on December 15, 2005.

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[edit] 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

[edit] Representatives

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, 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

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