New York's 11th congressional district

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.

Voting

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:

Orange and Sullivan counties

1853-1863:

Ulster County, New York and

Greene County, New York

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

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.)

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 "