New York's 9th congressional district

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New York's 9th congressional district
Current Representative		Bob Turner (R–Queens)
Distribution	100.00% urban, 0.00% rural
Population (2000)	654,360
Median income	$45,426
Ethnicity	71.0% White, 4.4% Black, 14.6% Asian, 13.6% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American, 2.2% other
Cook PVI	D+5

New York's 9th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City. It includes parts of southern Brooklyn and south central Queens. In Queens, the 9th includes the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Howard Beach, Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens Hills, Middle Village, Forest Hills, Ozone Park, Ridgewood, Rego Park, Rockaway Beach, and Woodhaven. Its Brooklyn section includes Flatlands, Gerritsen Beach, Marine Park, Midwood, Mill Basin and Sheepshead Bay.

Politically, the district leans Democratic, but significantly less so than neighboring districts in Brooklyn and Queens. The Queens Tribune has found that the district increasingly swung Republican following the September 11 attacks in 2001, when many police and firefighters were lost from the Rockaways. Surveys found that terrorism and foreign policy took greater importance among voters, and Republican candidates improved their vote margins in state and national elections since 2002. Its representation in Congress was reliably Democratic for decades, and Chuck Schumer and Anthony Weiner received popular support from constituents for many years. Anthony D. Weiner was Congressman from 1999 until he resigned on June 21, 2011. Republican Bob Turner succeeded Weiner after winning the special election on September 13, 2011.

In order to accommodate surrounding districts with majority African-American or Hispanic populations (the 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th), it has been drawn to consist primarily of middle-class white neighborhoods (the district as a whole is 71% non-Hispanic white, 14.5% Asian, 13.6% Hispanic and 4% African-American). The district includes large Jewish, Italian, and Irish populations.

The district gained national attention in 1984 when Rep. Geraldine Ferraro became the vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Current U.S. Senator Charles Schumer represented the district prior to becoming a U.S. Senator.

Voting

Presidential elections

Year	District winner	District runner-up	National winner	National runner-up
2000	Al Gore 67%	George W. Bush 30%	George W. Bush 48%	Al Gore 48%
2004	John Kerry 56%	George W. Bush 44%	George W. Bush 51%	John Kerry 48%
2008	Barack Obama 55%	John McCain 44%	Barack Obama 53%	John McCain 46%

Components: past and present

The Ninth District from 1993 to 2003

The 9th was historically a Queens district.^{[citation needed]} Part of the old 9th became the 7th District in the 1992 redistricting when the present 9th absorbed much of the old 10th District based in Brooklyn.^{[citation needed]}

• 1797-1803: Montgomery County
• 1803-1809: [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
• 1809-1913: Montgomery County
• 1913-1945: Parts of Brooklyn, Queens
• 1945-1963: Parts of Brooklyn
• 1963-1993: Parts of Queens
• 1993-present: Parts of Brooklyn, Queens

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List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
District created		1793
James Gordon	Pro- Administration	March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795	Redistricted from 6th district
John Williams	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797	First elected in December 1794
	Federalist	March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1799
Jonas Platt	Federalist	March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Benjamin Walker	Federalist	March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Killian K. Van Rensselaer	Federalist	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1809	Redistricted from 8th district Redistricted to 7th district
Thomas Sammons	Federalist	March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813
John Lovett	Federalist	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Rensselaer Westerlo	Federalist	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Solomon Van Rensselaer	Federalist	March 4, 1819 – January 14, 1822	Resigned to become postmaster of Albany
Vacant		January 14, 1822 – March 12, 1822
Stephen Van Rensselaer	Federalist	March 12, 1822 – March 3, 1823	Redistricted to 10th district
James L. Hogeboom	Crawford Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William McManus	Adams	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John D. Dickinson	Adams	March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Anti- Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831
Job Pierson	Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Hiram P. Hunt	Anti- Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry Vail	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Hiram P. Hunt	Whig	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
James G. Clinton	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	Redistricted from 6th district
Archibald C. Niven	Democratic	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Daniel B. St. John	Whig	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Thomas McKissock	Whig	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Murray	Democratic	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	Redistricted to 10th district
Jared V. Peck	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Bayard Clarke	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John B. Haskin	Democratic	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Anti-Lecompton Democrat	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861
Edward Haight	Democratic	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Anson Herrick	Democratic	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William A. Darling	Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Fernando Wood	Democratic	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1873	Redistricted to 10th district
David B. Mellish	Republican	March 4, 1873 – May 23, 1874	Died
Vacant		May 23, 1874 – December 7, 1874
Richard Schell	Democratic	December 7, 1874 – March 3, 1875	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Fernando Wood	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – February 14, 1881	Redistricted from 10th district died
Vacant		February 14, 1881 – December 5, 1881
John Hardy	Democratic	December 5, 1881 – March 3, 1885	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph Pulitzer	Democratic	March 4, 1885 – April 10, 1886	Resigned
Vacant		April 10, 1886 – November 2, 1886
Samuel S. Cox	Democratic	November 2, 1886 – September 10, 1889	Died
Vacant		September 10, 1889 – November 5, 1889
Amos J. Cummings	Democratic	November 5, 1889 – March 3, 1893	Redistricted to 11th district
Timothy J. Campbell	Democratic	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895	Redistricted from 8th district
Henry C. Miner	Democratic	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Thomas J. Bradley	Democratic	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry M. Goldfogle	Democratic	March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1913	Redistricted to 12th district
James H. O'Brien	Democratic	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Oscar W. Swift	Republican	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
David J. O'Connell	Democratic	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Andrew Petersen	Republican	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
David J. O'Connell	Democratic	March 4, 1923 – December 29, 1930	Died
Vacant		December 29, 1930 – February 17, 1931
Stephen A. Rudd	Democratic	February 17, 1931 – March 31, 1936	Died
Vacant		March 31, 1936 – January 3, 1937
Eugene J. Keogh	Democratic	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1963	Redistricted to 11th district
James J. Delaney	Democratic	January 3, 1963 – December 31, 1978	Redistricted from 7th district Resigned
Vacant		January 1, 1979 – January 3, 1979
Geraldine Ferraro	Democratic	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1985	First elected in 1978 Retired to run for U.S. Vice President
Thomas J. Manton	Democratic	January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1993	First elected in 1984 Redistricted to 7th district
Charles E. Schumer	Democratic	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999	Redistricted from 10th district Retired to run for U.S. Senate
Anthony D. Weiner	Democratic	January 3, 1999 – June 21, 2011	First elected in 1998 Resigned
Vacant		June 21, 2011 – September 13, 2011
Robert Turner	Republican	September 13, 2011 – Present	Elected in 2011

Recent election results

In New York elections, there are minor parties. 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").

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US House election, 1870: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Fernando Wood	15,620	64.8
	Young Democrat and Republican	William S. Hillyer	4,789	19.8
	Republican	Morris Ellinger	3,707	15.4
Majority			10,831	45.0
Turnout			24,116	100

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US House election, 1996: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Charles E. Schumer	107,107	74.8
	Republican	Robert J. Verga	30,488	21.3
	Conservative	Michael Mossa	5,618	3.9
Majority			76,619	53.5
Turnout			143,213	100

US House election, 1998: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	69,439	66.4	-8.4
	Republican	Louis Telano	24,486	23.4	+2.1
	Liberal	Melinda Katz	5,698	5.5	+5.5
	Conservative	Arthur J. Smith	4,899	4.7	+0.8
Majority			44,953	43.0	-10.5
Turnout			104,522	100	-27.0

US House election, 2000: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	98,983	68.4	+2.0
	Republican	Noach Dear	45,649	31.6	+8.2
Majority			53,334	36.9	-6.1
Turnout			144,632	100	+38.4

US House election, 2002: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	60,737	65.7	-2.7
	Republican	Alfred F. Donohue	31,698	34.3	+2.7
Majority			29,039	31.4	-5.5
Turnout			92,435	100	-36.1

US House election, 2004: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	113,025	71.3	+5.6
	Republican	Gerard J. Cronin	45,451	28.7	-5.6
Majority			67,574	42.6	+11.2
Turnout			158,476	100	+71.4

US House election, 2006: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	71,762	100	+28.7
Majority			71,762	100	+57.4
Turnout			71,762	100	-54.7

US House election, 2008: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	112,205	93.1	-6.9
	Conservative	Alfred F. Donohue	8,378	6.9	+6.9
Majority			103,827	86.2	-13.8
Turnout			120,583	100	+68.0

US House election, 2010: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Anthony D. Weiner	67,011	60.8	-32.3
	Republican	Bob Turner	43,129	39.2	+39.2
Majority			23,882	21.6	-64.6
Turnout			110,140	100	-8.7
	Democratic hold

US House special election, 2011: New York District 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Bob Turner	37,342	51.72%
	Democratic	David Weprin	33,656	46.62%
	Socialist Workers	Chris Hoeppner	143	0.2%
	Write-In Votes	Multiple (49 Names)	1,056	1.46%
Totals			72,197	100%
	Republican gain from Democratic

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. http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/2002/96Stat.htm. 
• "1998 House election data". Clerk of the House of Representatives. http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/2002/98Stat.htm. 
• "2000 House election data". Clerk of the House of Representatives. http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/2000/2000Stat.htm. 
• "2002 House election data". Clerk of the House of Representatives. http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/2002/2002Stat.htm. 
• "2004 House election data". Clerk of the House of Representatives. http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/2004/2004Stat.htm.