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==Demographics== |
==Demographics== |
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According to data based on the [[American Community Survey]] 5-Year Estimates published by the [[U.S. Census Bureau]] for 2009, the district has an estimated population of 694,240. The ethnic composition of the district is estimated to be 46.33% [[Hispanic or Latino]], 27.18% [[white people|white]], 7.12% [[black people|black]] or [[African American]], .08% [[American Indian]] or [[Alaska Native]], 17.88% [[Asian-Americans|Asian]], and 0.0% [[Native Hawaiian]] and Other [[Pacific Islander]]. An estimated .38% of the district's population is [[Race and ethnicity in the United States#Some other race|some other race]], and 1.04% are [[Race and ethnicity in the United States#Two or more races|two or more races]]. <ref name=2009>{{cite web | title=Congressional District Demographic Profile | url=http://proximityone.com/cd/dp/dp13612.htm | publisher=ProximityOne | date=2008-2009 | accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref> <ref name=rematch>{{cite web | title=Fast Facts for Congress | url=http://fastfacts.census.gov/servlet/ACSCWSFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=&_cd=&_state=&_zip=11222&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_industry= | publisher=U.S. Census Bureau | date=2005-2009 | accessdate=2011-10-17}}</ref> |
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==2102 Election== |
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Nydia Velazquez, the incumbent Democrat, is expected to run for reelection in 2012. |
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Dan O'Connor of Manhattan has declared his candidacy and intends to challenge Velazquez in the September 2012 Democratic primary. <ref name=O'Connor>{{cite web | title=Dan O'Connor for Congress | url=http://www.danoconnor2012.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&lang=en | publisher=Dan O'Connor for Congress | date=2011-10-13 | accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref> |
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Possible candidates include [[New York City Council]] member [[Erik Martin Dilan]], also a Democrat. <ref name=Dilan>{{cite web | title=Erik Dilan vs. Nydia Velazquez | url=http://thepereznotes.blogspot.com/2011/09/erik-dilan-vs-nydia-velazquez-el-diario.html | publisher=The Perez Notes | date=2011-09-28 | accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref> |
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==Voting== |
==Voting== |
Revision as of 03:19, 24 October 2011
New York's 12th congressional district | |
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Population (2000) | 654,360 |
Median household income | 40,955 |
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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, East New York, 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.
Demographics
According to data based on the American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau for 2009, the district has an estimated population of 694,240. The ethnic composition of the district is estimated to be 46.33% Hispanic or Latino, 27.18% white, 7.12% black or African American, .08% American Indian or Alaska Native, 17.88% Asian, and 0.0% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. An estimated .38% of the district's population is some other race, and 1.04% are two or more races. Cite error: The <ref>
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2102 Election
Nydia Velazquez, the incumbent Democrat, is expected to run for reelection in 2012.
Dan O'Connor of Manhattan has declared his candidacy and intends to challenge Velazquez in the September 2012 Democratic primary. [2]
Possible candidates include New York City Council member Erik Martin Dilan, also a Democrat. [3]
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
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 – February 17, 1808[4] | redistricted from 7th district, resigned after becoming New York State Treasurer | |
Vacant | February 17, 1808 – November 7, 1808 | |||
Nathan Wilson | Democratic-Republican | November 7, 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 12th 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 | Granville | |
vacant | March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1815 | Rep.-elect Benjamin Pond died on October 6, 1814 | ||
Asa Adgate | Democratic-Republican | December 7, 1815 – March 3, 1817 | Chesterfield | elected to fill vacancy |
John Palmer | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819 | Plattsburgh | |
Ezra C. Gross | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 | Elizabethtown | |
Vacant | March 4 - December 3, 1821 | The United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1821 were held in April, after the congressional term had already begun. It is not clear when the result was announced or the credentials were issued. | ||
Reuben H. Walworth | Democratic-Republican | December 3, 1821 – March 3, 1823 | Plattsburgh |
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").
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 68,624 | 93.9 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Alice Gaffney | 4,482 | 6.1 | +6.1 | |
Majority | 64,142 | 87.7 | +7.7 | ||
Turnout | 73,106 | 100 | −46.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 123,053 | 90.0 | +0.3 | |
Republican | Allan E. Romaguera | 13,748 | 10.0 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 109,305 | 80.0 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 136,801 | 100 | +95.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Nydia Velazquez | 62,847 | 89.7 | +3.4 | |
Republican | Allan E. Romaguera | 7,182 | 10.3 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 55,665 | 79.5 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 70,029 | 100 | −44.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Notes
- ^ "Fast Facts for Congress". U.S. Census Bureau. 2005–2009. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
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: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ "Dan O'Connor for Congress". Dan O'Connor for Congress. 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ^ "Erik Dilan vs. Nydia Velazquez". The Perez Notes. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ^ David Thomas was appointed New York State Treasurer on February 5, 1808, and resigned his seat. His letter of resignation was read in the House on February 17. see: Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Vol. V; page 182)
References
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
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