New York's 11th congressional district

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

Voting

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.

Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history	Geography
District created		1803
Beriah Palmer	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Clinton, Essex and Saratoga counties
Peter Sailly	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Thompson	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1807 – March 3, 1809	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Thomas R. Gold	Federalist	March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
		March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813		Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Saratoga counties
John W. Taylor	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1823	Redistricted to 17th district	Saratoga County
Charles A. Foote	Crawford Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Delaware and Greene counties
Henry Ashley	Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Selah R. Hobbie	Jacksonian	March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Perkins King	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Erastus Root	Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Cramer	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Schenectady and Saratoga counties
John I. De Graff	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
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	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Archibald L. Linn	Whig	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Zadock Pratt	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Columbia and Greene counties
John F. Collin	Democratic	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Peter H. Silvester	Whig	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Josiah Sutherland	Democratic	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Theodoric R. Westbrook	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Ulster County, New York and Greene County, New York
Rufus H. King	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William F. Russell	Democratic	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William S. Kenyon	Republican	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John B. Steele	Democratic	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	Redistricted to 13th district
Charles H. Winfield	Democratic	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Orange and Sullivan counties
Charles Van Wyck	Republican	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
George W. Greene	Democratic	March 4, 1869 – February 17, 1870	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
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	Bronx and Westchester County
Benjamin A. Willis	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Harlem and central Manhattan
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	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Orlando B. Potter	Democratic	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Truman A. Merriman	Independent Democrat	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	West Central Manhattan
	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889
John Quinn	Democratic	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
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 district	Lower East Side of Manhattan (part)
William Sulzer	Democratic	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903	Redistricted to 10th district
William Randolph Hearst	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]	Part of Central west Manhattan
Charles V. Fornes	Democratic	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1913	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Daniel J. Riordan	Democratic	March 4, 1913 – April 28, 1923	Redistricted from 8th district Died	All of Staten Island, Parts of Manhattan
Vacant		April 28, 1923 – November 6, 1923
Anning Smith Prall	Democratic	November 6, 1923 – January 3, 1935	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
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	Parts of Brooklyn
Emanuel Celler	Democratic	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1963	Redistricted from 15th district redistricted to 10th district	Parts of Brooklyn, Queens
Eugene J. Keogh	Democratic	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967	Redistricted from 9th district	Parts of Brooklyn
Frank J. Brasco	Democratic	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
		January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975		Parts of Brooklyn, Queens
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	Parts of Brooklyn
Major Owens	Democratic	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2007	Redistricted from 12th district
Yvette Clarke	Democratic	January 3, 2007 – present	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]

Election results

In New York State 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.)

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
• 1996 House election data, Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 1998 House election data, Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 2000 House election data, Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 2002 House election data, Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 2004 House election data, Clerk of the House of Representatives