New York's 12th congressional district | ||
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Current Representative | Nydia Velázquez (D–Brooklyn) | |
Distribution | 100.00% urban, 0.00% rural | |
Population (2000) | 654,360 | |
Median income | $40,955 | |
Ethnicity | 39.5% White, 10.9% Black, 16.0% Asian, 48.5% Hispanic, 0.7% Native American, 4.6% other | |
Cook PVI | D+33 |
New York's 12th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It includes parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. It includes the Queens neighborhoods of Maspeth, Ridgewood, and Woodside, the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick, Greenpoint, Red Hook, East New York, Brooklyn Heights, Sunset Park, and Williamsburg and part of Manhattan’s Lower East Side and East Village. It has been represented by Democrat Nydia Velazquez since 1993.
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According to data based on the American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau for 2009, the district has an estimated population of 694,240. The ethnic composition of the district is estimated to be 46.33% Hispanic or Latino, 27.18% white, 7.12% black or African American, .08% American Indian or Alaska Native, 17.88% Asian, and 0.0% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. An estimated .38% of the district's population is some other race, and 1.04% are two or more races. [1] [2]
Year | Office | Results |
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2000 | Gore 77 - 15% | |
2004 | Kerry 80 - 19% | |
2008 | Obama 86 - 13% |
The 12th District was historically a Brooklyn district. In the 1960s, it was realigned to include majority African American neighborhoods such as Bedford-Stuyvesant in Central Brooklyn. Up to 1992 it was the central Brooklyn district now held by Yvette Clarke (and formerly by Major Owens), and then remapped to include Hispanic neighborhoods in lower Manhattan and Queens.
1803-1913:
1913-1945:
1945-1993:
1993-present:
Representative | Party | Years | Note |
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District created | 1803 | ||
David Thomas | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1803 – February 17, 1808[3] |
Redistricted from 7th district Resigned to become New York State Treasurer |
Vacant | February 17, 1808 – November 7, 1808 |
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Nathan Wilson | Democratic- Republican |
November 7, 1808 – March 3, 1809 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Erastus Root | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Arunah Metcalf | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
From 1813 to 1823, two seats were apportioned to the 12th District, elected at-large on a general ticket.
Representative | Party | Years | Note |
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Zebulon R. Shipherd | Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
vacant | March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1815 |
Representative-elect Benjamin Pond died on October 6, 1814 | |
Asa Adgate | Democratic-Republican | December 7, 1815 – March 3, 1817 |
Elected to fill vacancy |
John Palmer | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Ezra C. Gross | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Vacant | March 4, 1821 - December 3, 1821 | The United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1821 were held in April, after the congressional term had already begun. It is not clear when the result was announced or the credentials were issued. | |
Reuben H. Walworth | Democratic- Republican |
December 3, 1821 – March 3, 1823 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Representative | Party | Years | Note |
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Elisha I. Winter | Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John Savage | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Nathaniel Pitcher | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Representative | Party | Years | Note |
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Lewis Eaton | Crawford Republican |
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 |
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William Dietz | Jacksonian | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827 |
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John I. De Graff | Jacksonian | March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Peter I. Borst | Jacksonian | March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Joseph Bouck | Jacksonian | March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Henry C. Martindale | Anti- Masonic |
March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 |
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David Abel Russell | Anti- Jacksonian |
March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837 |
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Whig | March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841 |
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Bernard Blair | Whig | March 4, 1841 – June 20, 1843 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
David L. Seymour | Democratic | March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Richard P. Herrick | Whig | March 4, 1845 – June 20, 1846 |
Died |
Vacant | June 20, 1846 – December 7, 1846 |
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Thomas C. Ripley | Whig | December 7, 1846 – March 3, 1847 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Gideon Reynolds | Whig | March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
David L. Seymour | Democratic | March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Gilbert Dean | Democratic | March 4, 1853 – July 3, 1854 |
Redistricted from 8th district Resigned to become justice to Supreme Court of New York |
Vacant | July 3, 1854 – November 7, 1854 |
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Isaac Teller | Whig | November 7, 1854 – March 3, 1855 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Killian Miller | Opposition | March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John Thompson | Republican | March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Charles Lewis Beale | Republican | March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Stephen Baker | Republican | March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863 |
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Homer A. Nelson | Democratic | March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865 |
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John H. Ketcham | Republican | March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1873 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Charles St. John | Republican | March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875 |
Redistricted from 11th district |
Nathaniel H. Odell | Democratic | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Clarkson Nott Potter | Democratic | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Waldo Hutchins | Democratic | November 4, 1879 – March 3, 1885 |
Elected to replace Representative-elect Alexander Smith who died before being seated |
Abraham Dowdney | Democratic | March 4, 1885 – December 10, 1886 |
Died |
Vacant | December 10, 1886 – March 4, 1887 |
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William Bourke Cockran | Democratic | March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Roswell P. Flower | Democratic | March 4, 1889 – September 16, 1891 |
Resigned to become Governor of New York |
Vacant | September 16, 1891 – November 3, 1891 |
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Joseph J. Little | Democratic | November 3, 1891 – March 3, 1893 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
William Bourke Cockran | Democratic | March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895 |
Redistricted from 10th district |
George B. McClellan, Jr. | Democratic | March 4, 1895 – December 21, 1903 |
Resigned to become Mayor of New York City |
Vacant | December 21, 1903 – February 23, 1904 |
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William Bourke Cockran | Democratic | February 23, 1904 – March 3, 1909 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Michael F. Conry | Democratic | March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1913 |
Redistricted to 15th district |
Henry M. Goldfogle | Democratic | March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915 |
Redistricted from 9th district |
Meyer London | Socialist | March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Henry M. Goldfogle | Democratic | March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Meyer London | Socialist | March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Samuel Dickstein | Democratic | March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1945 |
Redistricted to 19th district |
John J. Rooney | Democratic | January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1953 |
Redistricted from 4th district Redistricted to 14th district |
Francis E. Dorn | Republican | January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1961 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Hugh Carey | Democratic | January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963 |
Redistricted to 15th district |
Edna F. Kelly | Democratic | January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1969 |
Redistricted from 10th district |
Shirley Chisholm | Democratic | January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1983 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Major R. Owens | Democratic | January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993 |
Redistricted to 11th district |
Nydia Velazquez | Democratic | January 3, 1993 – present |
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In New York, 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, 1996: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 61,913 | 84.6 | ||
Republican | Miguel I. Prado | 9,978 | 13.6 | ||
Socialist Workers | Eleanor Garcia | 1,283 | 1.8 | ||
Majority | 51,935 | 71.0 | |||
Turnout | 73,174 | 100 |
US House election, 1998: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 53,269 | 83.6 | -1.0 | |
Republican | Rosemary Markgraf | 7,405 | 11.6 | -2.0 | |
Conservative | Angel Diaz | 1,632 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Hector Cortes, Jr. | 1,400 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 45,864 | 72.0 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 63,706 | 100 | -12.9 |
US House election, 2000: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 86,288 | 87.1 | +3.5 | |
Republican | Rosemary Markgraf | 10,052 | 10.1 | -1.5 | |
Socialist | Paul Pederson | 1,025 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
Right to Life | Mildred Rosario | 865 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
Conservative | Cesar Estevez | 850 | 0.9 | -1.7 | |
Majority | 76,236 | 76.9 | +4.9 | ||
Turnout | 99,080 | 100 | +55.5 |
US House election, 2002: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 48,408 | 95.8 | +8.7 | |
Conservative | Cesar Estevez | 2,119 | 4.2 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 46,289 | 91.6 | +14.7 | ||
Turnout | 50,527 | 100 | -49.0 |
US House election, 2004: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 107,796 | 86.3 | -9.5 | |
Republican | Paul A. Rodriguez | 17,166 | 13.7 | +13.7 | |
Majority | 90,630 | 72.5 | -19.1 | ||
Turnout | 124,962 | 100 | +147.3 |
US House election, 2006: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 62,847 | 89.7 | +3.4 | |
Republican | Allan E. Romaguera | 7,182 | 10.3 | -3.4 | |
Majority | 55,665 | 79.5 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 70,029 | 100 | -44.0 |
US House election, 2008: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 123,053 | 90.0 | +0.3 | |
Republican | Allan E. Romaguera | 13,748 | 10.0 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 109,305 | 80.0 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 136,801 | 100 | +95.3 |
US House election, 2010: New York District 12 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 68,624 | 93.9 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Alice Gaffney | 4,482 | 6.1 | +6.1 | |
Majority | 64,142 | 87.7 | +7.7 | ||
Turnout | 73,106 | 100 | -46.6 |
Nydia Velazquez, the incumbent Democrat, is expected to run for reelection in 2012.
Dan O'Connor of Manhattan has declared his candidacy and intends to challenge Velazquez in the September 2012 Democratic primary. [4]
Possible candidates include New York City Council member Erik Martin Dilan, also a Democrat. [5]
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