New York's 14th congressional district

 

New York's 14th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It includes most of the East Side of Manhattan, all of Roosevelt Island and the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, and Sunnyside in Queens. Museum Mile and the United Nations Headquarters are located within this district. Democrat Carolyn B. Maloney has represented the district since 1993.

Components: Past and Present

2003-present:

Parts of Manhattan, Queens

1993-2003:

Parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens

1983-1993:

All of Staten Island

Parts of Brooklyn

1945-1983:

Parts of Brooklyn

1913-1945:

Parts of Manhattan

Representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Note
Leo F. Rayfiel	Democratic	January 31945 – September 131947	resigned
vacant		September 141947 – November 31947
Abraham J. Multer	Democratic	November 41947 – January 31953	redistricted to 13th district
John J. Rooney	Democratic	January 31953 – December 311974	redistricted from 12th district, resigned
vacant		January 11975 – January 21975
Frederick W. Richmond	Democratic	January 31975 – August 251982	resigned
vacant		August 261982 – January 21983
Guy V. Molinari	Republican	January 31983 – December 311989	redistricted from 17th district, resigned
vacant		January 11990 – March 191990
Susan Molinari	Republican	March 201990 – January 31993	redistricted to 13th district
Carolyn B. Maloney	Democratic	January 31993 – present

The 14th District was a Brooklyn based seat until 1982 when it became the Staten Island district. In the 1992 remap it became the East Side of Manhattan district, which for most of its existence had been the 17th District. During the 1970s this district was numbered the 18th, in the 1980s it was numbered the 15th.

In Fiction

In the TV series Heroes, the character Nathan Petrelli is running for the 14th district's congressional seat in 2006 election according to the robocall found on the answering machine of Chandra Suresh. It is also known, from Hiro Nakamura's trip to the future (November 82006, the day after the election) that Petrelli will win in a landslide.^[1]

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 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Carolyn B. Maloney	119,582	84.5	+3.4
	Republican	Danniel Maio	21,969	15.5	-3.4
Majority			97,613	69.0	+6.9
Turnout			141,551	100	-38.5

US House election, 2004: New York District 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Carolyn B. Maloney	186,688	81.1	+5.8
	Republican	Anton Srdanovic	43,623	18.9	-5.8
Majority			143,065	62.1	+11.6
Turnout			230,311	100	+80.7

US House election, 2002: New York District 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Carolyn B. Maloney	95,931	75.3	+1.4
	Republican	Anton Srdanovic	31,548	24.7	+2.0
Majority			64,383	50.5	-0.7
Turnout			127,479	100	-36.4

US House election, 2000: New York District 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Carolyn B. Maloney	148,080	73.9	-3.5
	Republican	C. Adrienne Rhodes	45,453	22.7	+0.1
	Green	Sandra Stevens	4,869	2.4	+2.4
	Independence	Frederick D. Newman	1,946	1.0	+1.0
Majority			102,627	51.2	-3.6
Turnout			200,348	100	+39.6

US House election, 1998: New York District 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Carolyn B. Maloney	111,072	77.4	+5.0
	Republican	Stephanie E. Kupferman	32,458	22.6	-1.1
Majority			78,614	54.8	+6.1
Turnout			143,530	100	-20.1

US House election, 1996: New York District 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Carolyn B. Maloney	130,175	72.4
	Republican	Jeffrey E. Livingston	42,641	23.7
	Green	Thomas K. Leighton	3,512	2.0
	Conservative	Joseph A. Lavezzo	2,188	1.2
	Right to Life	Delco L. Cornett	1,221	0.7
Majority			87,534	48.7
Turnout			179,737	100

References

• 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 "

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