New York's 29th congressional district

New York's 29th congressional district
Current Representative		Eric Massa (D)
Population (2000)	654,360
Median income	$41,857
Ethnicity	93.4% White, 2.7% Black, 1.8% Asian, 1.4% Hispanic, 0.5% Native American, 0.2% other
Cook PVI	R+5

The Twenty-ninth district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives which covers the portion of the Appalachian mountains in New York known as the "Southern Tier."

Components: past and present

2003-present:

All of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates

Parts of Monroe, Ontario

1993-2003:

All of Niagara, Orleans

Parts of Erie, Monroe

1983-1993:

All of Cayuga, Oswego, Seneca, Wayne

Parts of Monroe, Oneida

1973-1983:

All of Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Washington

Parts of Albany, Columbia, Essex

1971-1973:

All of Schenectady

Parts of Albany, Montgomery

1969-1971:

All of Albany, Schenectady

1963-1969:

All of Albany, Schenectady

Parts of Rensselaer

1953-1963:

All of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Schoharie, Ulster

1945-1953:

All of Delaware, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan

1913-1945:

All of Saratoga, Warren, Washington

Parts of Rensselaer

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Representatives

The 29th District was centered in Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the 1990s (represented by John LaFalce); that district was dismantled and parceled out to the present 27th and 28th Districts. In the 1980s this district was centered in suburban Rochester. During the 1970s the district was congruent to the present upper Hudson Valley 20th District.

The far southern tier district was numbered the 31st District in the 1990s and the 34th District in the 1980s, when Amo Houghton represented it. During the 1970s this area was primarily in the 39th District. Prior versions of this district included Chautauqua county; suburban Rochester had never been in a southern tier district until the 2002 remap. The result was that the district changed from a "packed" Republican district to a "cracked" district. The 2008 elections reversed the crack, meaning that the heavily Democratic and suburban Monroe County votes were able to swing the district in their favor, leaving most of the rest of the expansive district out of influence, though not without help from an unexplained vote shift in Cattaraugus County.

Election results

Following are the results of the elections of 1996 through 2008.

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").

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
• New York State Board of Elections 2008 Election Results
• 2006 Election Statistics (House), Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 2006 House election data
• 2004 House election data
• 2002 House election data
• 2000 House election data
• 1998 House election data
• 1996 House election data

External links

• All about New York's 29th Congressional District