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| New York's 12th congressional district | ||
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| Current Representative | Nydia Velázquez (D) | |
| Population (2000) | 654,360 | |
| Median income | $29,195 | |
| 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, 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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Voting
| Election results from presidential races | ||
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| Year | Office | Results |
| 2008 | President | Obama 86 - 13% |
| 2004 | President | Kerry 80 - 19% |
| 2000 | President | Gore 77 - 15% |
Components: Past and Present
1993-present:
1945-1993:
- Parts of Brooklyn
1913-1945:
- Parts of Manhattan
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Representatives
1803 - 1813: One seat
| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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| District created | 1803 | |||
| David Thomas | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1803 – May 1, 1808 | redistricted from 7th district, resigned after becoming New York State Treasurer | |
| Vacant | May 1, 1808 – June 3, 1808 | |||
| Nathan Wilson | Democratic-Republican | June 3, 1808 – March 3, 1809 | ||
| Erastus Root | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811 | ||
| Arunah Metcalf | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 | ||
1813 - 1823: Two seats
From 1813 to 1823, two seats were apportioned to the second district, elected at-large on a general ticket.
Seat A
| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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| Zebulon R. Shipherd | Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 | ||
| vacant | March 3, 1815 – June 17, 1815 | |||
| Asa Adgate | Democratic-Republican | June 17, 1815 – March 3, 1817 | elected to seat after death of Benjamin Pond who expired before beginning of term | |
| John Palmer | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819 | ||
| Ezra C. Gross | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 | ||
| Reuben H. Walworth | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823 | ||
Seat B
| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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| Elisha I. Winter | Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 | ||
| John Savage | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819 | ||
| Nathaniel Pitcher | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823 |
1823 - present: One seat
| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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| Lewis Eaton | Crawford Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 | ||
| William Dietz | Jacksonian | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827 | ||
| John I. De Graff | Jacksonian | March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829 | ||
| Peter I. Borst | Jacksonian | March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831 | ||
| Joseph Bouck | Jacksonian | March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833 | ||
| Henry C. Martindale | Anti-Masonic | March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 | ||
| David Abel Russell | Anti-Jacksonian | March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837 | ||
| Whig | March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841 | |||
| Bernard Blair | Whig | March 4, 1841 – June 20, 1843 | ||
| David L. Seymour | Democratic | March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845 | ||
| Richard P. Herrick | Whig | March 4, 1845 – June 20, 1846 | died | |
| Vacant | June 20, 1846 – December 7, 1846 | |||
| Thomas C. Ripley | Whig | December 7, 1846 – March 3, 1847 | ||
| Gideon Reynolds | Whig | March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851 | ||
| David L. Seymour | Democratic | March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853 | ||
| Gilbert Dean | Democratic | March 4, 1853 – July 3, 1854 | redistricted from 8th district, resigned after appointment as justice to Supreme Court of New York | |
| Vacant | July 3, 1854 – November 7, 1854 | |||
| Isaac Teller | Whig | November 7, 1854 – March 3, 1855 | ||
| Killian Miller | Opposition | March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 | ||
| John Thompson | Republican | March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859 | ||
| Charles Lewis Beale | Republican | March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861 |
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| Stephen Baker | Republican | March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863 | ||
| Homer A. Nelson | Democratic | March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865 | ||
| John H. Ketcham | Republican | March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1873 | ||
| Charles St. John | Republican | March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875 | redistricted from 11th district | |
| Nathaniel H. Odell | Democratic | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 | ||
| Clarkson Nott Potter | Democratic | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 | ||
| Waldo Hutchins | Democratic | November 4, 1879 – March 3, 1885 | elected to replace Rep-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 | |||
| William Bourke Cockran | Democratic | March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889 | ||
| Roswell P. Flower | Democratic | March 4, 1889 – September 16, 1891 | resigned after being elected as Governor of New York | |
| Vacant | September 16, 1891 – November 3, 1891 | |||
| Joseph J. Little | Democratic | November 3, 1891 – March 3, 1893 | ||
| 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 on election as Mayor of New York City | |
| Vacant | December 21, 1903 – February 23, 1904 | |||
| William Bourke Cockran | Democratic | February 23, 1904 – March 3, 1909 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Henry M. Goldfogle | Democratic | March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921 | ||
| Meyer London | Socialist | March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Hugh L. 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 | ||
| Major R. Owens | Democratic | January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993 | redistricted to 11th district | |
| Nydia Velazquez | Democratic | January 3, 1993 – present | incumbent | |
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.
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 12 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 62,847 | 89.7 | +3.4 | |
| Republican | Allan Romaguera | 7,182 | 10.3 | -3.4 | |
| Majority | 55,665 | 79.5 | +7.0 | ||
| Turnout | 70,029 | 100 | -44.0 | ||
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 | |||
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
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