New York's 12th congressional district

New York's 12th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. As of 2023, it is represented by Democrat Jerry Nadler, redistricted incumbent of the former 10th congressional district who defeated incumbent Carolyn Maloney in the August 2022 Democratic primary. The redrawn District 12 includes the Upper West Side constituency (former District 10) represented by Nadler since the 1990s, the Upper East Side, and all of Midtown Manhattan. The district is the smallest congressional district by area in the U.S. The 12th district's per capita income, in excess of $75,000, is the highest among all congressional districts in the United States.[4]

New York's 12th congressional district
Map
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative
  Jerry Nadler
DNew York
Distribution
  • 100% urban
  • 0% rural
Population (2022)705,008[1]
Median household
income
$142,104[2]
Ethnicity
Cook PVID+34[3]

Recent statewide election results edit

Year Office Results
2008 President Obama 80–19%
2012 President Obama 77–22%
2016 President Clinton 83–14%
2020 President Biden 84–15%

History edit

During the Civil War, the 12th District comprised the counties of Dutchess and Columbia.[5] The 12th District eventually became a Brooklyn district in the mid-1960s, as the result of a district realignment due to the Supreme Court's decision in the Cooper v. Power case in 1966. The district was realigned to include majority African American neighborhoods such as Bedford-Stuyvesant in Central Brooklyn. Until 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.

1803–1913:

Dutchess County, Columbia County

1913–1945:

Parts of Manhattan

1945–1993:

Parts of Brooklyn

1993–2023:

Parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens

From 2003 to 2013 it included parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. It included 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. Prior to the 2010s redistricting, the district included several neighborhoods in the East Side of Manhattan, the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, and western Queens, as well as Roosevelt Island, mostly overlapping the pre-redistricting 14th district.[6]

2023–:

Parts of Manhattan
 
2003–2013
 
2013–2023

List of members representing the district edit

1803–1813: one seat edit

Representative Party Years Cong
ress
Electoral history
District established March 4, 1803
 
David Thomas
(Salem)
Democratic-
Republican
March 4, 1803 –
February 17, 1808[a]
8th
9th
10th
Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected in 1802.
Re-elected in 1804.
Re-elected in 1806.
Resigned to become New York State Treasurer.
Vacant February 17, 1808 –
November 7, 1808
10th
Nathan Wilson
(Salem)
Democratic-
Republican
November 7, 1808 –
March 3, 1809
Elected to finish Thomas's term.
Retired.
 
Erastus Root
(Delhi)
Democratic-
Republican
March 4, 1809 –
March 3, 1811
11th Elected in 1808.
[data missing]
Arunah Metcalf
(Otsego)
Democratic-
Republican
March 4, 1811 –
March 3, 1813
12th Re-elected in 1810.
[data missing]

1813–1823: two seats edit

From 1813 to 1823, two seats were apportioned to the District, elected at-large on a general ticket.

Cong
ress
Years Seat A Seat B Location
Representative Party Electoral history Representative Party Electoral history
13th March 4, 1813 –
March 3, 1815
Zebulon R. Shipherd
(Granville)
Federalist Elected in 1812.
[data missing]
Elisha I. Winter
(Peru)
Federalist Elected in 1812.
[data missing]
1813–1823
Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Washington and Warren counties
14th March 4, 1815 –
December 7, 1815
Vacant Member-elect Benjamin Pond died October 6, 1814.  
John Savage
(Salem)
Democratic-Republican Elected in 1814.
[data missing]
December 7, 1815 –
March 3, 1817
Asa Adgate
(Chesterfield)
Democratic-Republican Elected to finish Pond's term.
[data missing]
15th March 4, 1817 –
March 3, 1819
John Palmer
(Plattsburg)
Democratic-Republican Elected in 1816.
[data missing]
16th March 4, 1819 –
March 3, 1821
Ezra C. Gross
(Elizabeth)
Democratic-Republican Elected in 1818.
Lost re-election.
Nathaniel Pitcher
(Sandy Hill)
Democratic-Republican Elected in 1818.
Re-elected in 1821.
[data missing]
17th March 4, 1821 –
December 3, 1821
Vacant Elections were held in April 1821. It is unclear when results were announced or credentials issued.
December 3, 1821 –
March 3, 1823
 
Reuben H. Walworth
(Plattsburg)
Democratic-Republican Elected in 1821.

1823–present: one seat edit

Representative Party Years Cong
ress
Electoral history Location
Lewis Eaton
(Schoharie Bridge)
Democratic-Republican March 4, 1823 –
March 3, 1825
18th Elected in 1822.
[data missing]
1823–1833
Schenectady and Schoharie counties
William Dietz
(Schoharie)
Jacksonian March 4, 1825 –
March 3, 1827
19th Elected in 1824.
[data missing]
 
John I. De Graff
(Schenectady)
Jacksonian March 4, 1827 –
March 3, 1829
20th Elected in 1826.
[data missing]
Peter I. Borst
(Middleburg)
Jacksonian March 4, 1829 –
March 3, 1831
21st Elected in 1828.
[data missing]
Joseph Bouck
(Middleburg)
Jacksonian March 4, 1831 –
March 3, 1833
22nd Elected in 1830.
[data missing]
Henry C. Martindale
(Sandy Hill)
Anti-Masonic March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1835
23rd Elected in 1832.
[data missing]
1833–1843
[data missing]
David Abel Russell
(Salem)
Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1835 –
March 3, 1837
24th
25th
26th
Elected in 1834.
Re-elected in 1836.
Re-elected in 1838.
[data missing]
Whig March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1841
 
Bernard Blair
(Salem)
Whig March 4, 1841 –
March 3, 1843
27th Elected in 1840.
[data missing]
 
David L. Seymour
(Troy)
Democratic March 4, 1843 –
March 3, 1845
28th Elected in 1842.
[data missing]
1843–1853
[data missing]
Richard P. Herrick
(Greenbush)
Whig March 4, 1845 –
June 20, 1846
29th Elected in 1844.
Died.
Vacant June 20, 1846 –
December 7, 1846
Thomas C. Ripley
(Schaghticoke)
Whig December 7, 1846 –
March 3, 1847
Elected to finish Herrick's term.
[data missing]
 
Gideon Reynolds
(Hoosick)
Whig March 4, 1847 –
March 3, 1851
30th
31st
Elected in 1846.
Re-elected in 1848.
[data missing]
 
David L. Seymour
(Troy)
Democratic March 4, 1851 –
March 3, 1853
32nd Elected in 1850.
[data missing]
 
Gilbert Dean
(Poughkeepsie)
Democratic March 4, 1853 –
July 3, 1854
33rd Redistricted from 8th district and re-elected in 1852.
Resigned to become justice to Supreme Court of New York.
1853–1863
[data missing]
Vacant July 3, 1854 –
November 7, 1854
Isaac Teller
(Matteawan)
Whig November 7, 1854 –
March 3, 1855
Elected to finish Dean's term.
[data missing]
Killian Miller
(Hudson)
Opposition March 4, 1855 –
March 3, 1857
34th Elected in 1854.
[data missing]
 
John Thompson
(Poughkeepsie)
Republican March 4, 1857 –
March 3, 1859
35th Elected in 1856.
[data missing]
 
Charles Lewis Beale
(Kinderhook)
Republican March 4, 1859 –
March 3, 1861
36th Elected in 1858.
[data missing]
 
Stephen Baker
(Poughkeepsie)
Republican March 4, 1861 –
March 3, 1863
37th Elected in 1860.
[data missing]
 
Homer A. Nelson
(Poughkeepsie)
Democratic March 4, 1863 –
March 3, 1865
38th Elected in 1862.
[data missing]
1863–1873
[data missing]
 
John H. Ketcham
(Dover Plains)
Republican March 4, 1865 –
March 3, 1873
39th
40th
41st
42nd
Re-elected in 1864.
Re-elected in 1866.
Re-elected in 1868.
Re-elected in 1870.
[data missing]
 
Charles St. John
(Port Jervis)
Republican March 4, 1873 –
March 3, 1875
43rd Redistricted from 11th district and re-elected in 1872.
[data missing]
1873–1883
[data missing]
 
N. Holmes Odell
(White Plains)
Democratic March 4, 1875 –
March 3, 1877
44th Elected in 1874.
[data missing]
 
Clarkson Nott Potter
(New Rochelle)
Democratic March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1879
45th Elected in 1876.
[data missing]
Vacant March 3, 1879 –
November 3, 1879
46th Representative-elect Alexander Smith died November 5, 1878.
 
Waldo Hutchins
(The Bronx)
Democratic November 4, 1879 –
March 3, 1885
46th
47th
48th
Elected to finish Smith's term.
Re-elected in 1880.
Re-elected in 1882.
Retired.
1883–1893
[data missing]
 
Abraham Dowdney
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1885 –
December 10, 1886
49th Elected in 1884.
Died.
Vacant December 10, 1886 –
March 3, 1887
 
William Bourke Cockran
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1887 –
March 3, 1889
50th Elected in 1886.
[data missing]
 
Roswell P. Flower
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1889 –
September 16, 1891
51st
52nd
Elected in 1888.
Re-elected in 1890.
Resigned to become Governor of New York.
Vacant September 16, 1891 –
November 3, 1891
52nd
 
Joseph J. Little
(New York)
Democratic November 3, 1891 –
March 3, 1893
Elected to finish Flower's term.
[data missing]
 
William Bourke Cockran
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1893 –
March 3, 1895
53rd Redistricted from 10th district and re-elected in 1892.
[data missing]
1893–1903
[data missing]
 
George B. McClellan Jr.
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1895 –
December 21, 1903
54th
55th
56th
57th
58th
Elected in 1894.
Re-elected in 1896.
Re-elected in 1898.
Re-elected in 1900.
Re-elected in 1902.
Resigned to become Mayor of New York City.
1903–1913
[data missing]
Vacant December 21, 1903 –
February 23, 1904
58th
 
William Bourke Cockran
(New York)
Democratic February 23, 1904 –
March 3, 1909
58th
59th
60th
Elected to finish McClellan's term.
Re-elected in 1904.
Re-elected in 1906.
[data missing]
 
Michael F. Conry
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1909 –
March 3, 1913
61st
62nd
Elected in 1908.
Re-elected in 1910.
Redistricted to 15th district.
 
Henry M. Goldfogle
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1913 –
March 3, 1915
63rd Redistricted from 9th district and re-elected in 1912.
.
1913–1923
[data missing]
 
Meyer London
(New York)
Socialist March 4, 1915 –
March 3, 1919
64th
65th
Elected in 1914.
Re-elected in 1916.
[data missing]
 
Henry M. Goldfogle
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1919 –
March 3, 1921
66th Elected in 1918.
[data missing]
 
Meyer London
(New York)
Socialist March 4, 1921 –
March 3, 1923
67th Elected in 1920.
[data missing]
 
Samuel Dickstein
(New York)
Democratic March 4, 1923 –
January 3, 1945
68th
69th
70th
71st
72nd
73rd
74th
75th
76th
77th
78th
Elected in 1922.
Re-elected in 1924.
Re-elected in 1926.
Re-elected in 1928.
Re-elected in 1930.
Re-elected in 1932.
Re-elected in 1934.
Re-elected in 1936.
Re-elected in 1938.
Re-elected in 1940.
Re-elected in 1942.
Redistricted to 19th district.
1923–1933
[data missing]
1933–1943
[data missing]
1943–1953
[data missing]
 
John J. Rooney
(Brooklyn)
Democratic January 3, 1945 –
January 3, 1953
79th
80th
81st
82nd
Redistricted from 4th district and re-elected in 1944.
Re-elected in 1946.
Re-elected in 1948.
Re-elected in 1950.
Redistricted to 14th district.
 
Francis E. Dorn
(Brooklyn)
Republican January 3, 1953 –
January 3, 1961
83rd
84th
85th
86th
Elected in 1952.
Re-elected in 1954.
Re-elected in 1956.
Re-elected in 1958.
[data missing]
1953–1963
[data missing]
 
Hugh Carey
(Brooklyn)
Democratic January 3, 1961 –
January 3, 1963
87th Elected in 1960.
Redistricted to 15th district.
 
Edna F. Kelly
(Brooklyn)
Democratic January 3, 1963 –
January 3, 1969
88th
89th
90th
Redistricted from the 10th district and re-elected in 1962.
Re-elected in 1964.
Re-elected in 1966.
Redistricted back to the 10th district and lost renomination there.
1963–1973
[data missing]
 
Shirley Chisholm
(Brooklyn)
Democratic January 3, 1969 –
January 3, 1983
91st
92nd
93rd
94th
95th
96th
97th
Elected in 1968.
Re-elected in 1970.
Re-elected in 1972.
Re-elected in 1974.
Re-elected in 1976.
Re-elected in 1978.
Re-elected in 1980.
Retired.
1973–1983
[data missing]
 
Major Owens
(Brooklyn)
Democratic January 3, 1983 –
January 3, 1993
98th
99th
100th
101st
102nd
Elected in 1982.
Re-elected in 1984.
Re-elected in 1986.
Re-elected in 1988.
Re-elected in 1990.
Redistricted to 11th district.
1983–1993
[data missing]
 
Nydia Velázquez
(Brooklyn)
Democratic January 3, 1993 –
January 3, 2013
103rd
104th
105th
106th
107th
108th
109th
110th
111th
112th
Elected in 1992.
Re-elected in 1994.
Re-elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 1998.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2002.
Re-elected in 2004.
Re-elected in 2006.
Re-elected in 2008.
Re-elected in 2010.
Redistricted to 7th district.
1993–2003
[data missing]
2003–2013
 
Parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens
 
Carolyn Maloney
(New York)
Democratic January 3, 2013 –
January 3, 2023
113th
114th
115th
116th
117th
Redistricted from 14th district and re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2016.
Re-elected in 2018.
Re-elected in 2020.
Lost re-nomination in 2022.[8]
2013–2023
 
Parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens
 
Jerry Nadler
(New York)
Democratic January 3, 2023 –
present
118th Redistricted from the 10th district and re-elected in 2022. 2023–2025
 
Parts of Manhattan

Recent elections edit

In New York, 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, 1996: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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
US House election, 1998: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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, 2000: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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, 2002: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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, 2004: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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, 2006: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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
US House election, 2008: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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
US House election, 2010: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Nydia Velazquez (incumbent) 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
US House election, 2012: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Carolyn Maloney 193,455 72.1 −21.8
Republican Christopher Wight 46,692 17.4 +7.4
Majority 109,305 54.7 −33.0
Turnout 268,287 100 +366.9
US House election, 2014: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 90,603 77.2 +5.1
Republican Nick Di Iorio 22,731 19.4 +2.0
Majority 67,872 57.8 +3.1
Turnout 117,420 100 −228.5
US House election, 2016: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 244,358 83.2 +6.0
Republican Robert Ardini 49,398 16.8 −2.6
Majority 194,960 66.4 +8.6
Turnout 293,756 100 +250.2
2018 Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 26,742 59.6
Democratic Suraj Patel 18,098 40.4
Total votes 44,840 100.0
US House election, 2018: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 217,430 86.4 +3.2
Republican Eliot Rabin 30,446 12.1 −4.7
Green Scott Hutchins 3,728 1.5 N/A
Majority 186,984 74.3 +12.1
Turnout 251,604 100 −16.8
2020 Democratic primary results[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 40,362 42.8
Democratic Suraj Patel 37,106 39.4
Democratic Lauren Ashcraft 12,810 13.6
Democratic Peter Harrison 4,001 4.2
Total votes 94,279 100.0
US House election, 2020: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 265,172 82.0 −4.4
Republican Carlos Santiago-Cano 53,061 16.0 +3.9
Libertarian Steven Kolln 4,015 1.0 N/A
Majority 208,096 65.0 −9.3
Turnout 322,248 100 +28.1
2022 Democratic primary results[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jerrold Nadler (incumbent) 45,545 55.4
Democratic Carolyn Maloney (incumbent) 20,038 24.4
Democratic Suraj Patel 15,744 19.2
Democratic Ashmi Sheth 832 1.0
US House election, 2022: New York District 12
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Jerry Nadler (incumbent) 200,890 81.8 N/A
Republican Michael Zumbluskas 44,173 18.0 N/A
Independent Mikhail Itkis 631 0.3 N/A
Majority 156,086 63.5 -1.5
Turnout 245,694 100 -4.2

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ "New York congressional districts by urban and rural population and land area". United States Census Bureau. June 8, 2017. Archived from the original on November 21, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
  3. ^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  4. ^ "Highest Income Per Capita In The United States By Congressional District".
  5. ^ "Ancestry.ca". www.ancestry.ca. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
  6. ^ "New York Redistricting". New York Times. March 20, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
  7. ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Vol. V; page 182)
  8. ^ Shabad, Rebecca (August 23, 2022). "Rep. Jerry Nadler beats Rep. Carolyn Maloney in New York House primary". NBC News. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  9. ^ "June 23 2020 Primary Election Results" (PDF). New York State Board of Elections. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  10. ^ "New York 12th Congressional District Primary Election Results Results". New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  1. ^ 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.[7]

References edit

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January 20, 2017 – September 27, 2019
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