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. Nadler has since stated that he does not intend to run for reelection in 2026. The redrawn District 12 includes the Upper West Side constituency represented by Nadler since the 1990s, the Upper East Side, and all of Midtown Manhattan. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+33, it is the most Democratic district in New York and tied with California's 37th district and Alabama's 4th district for the ninth most extreme. 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.
Recent election results from statewide races
History
During the Civil War, the 12th District comprised the counties of Dutchess and Columbia. 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 then remapped to include Hispanic neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan and Queens.1803–1913:
1913–1945:
1945–1993:
1993–2023:
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.
2023–:
Current composition
The 12th district is located entirely in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Manhattan neighborhoods in the district include:- Carnegie Hill
- Chelsea
- Flatiron
- Gramercy
- Hell's Kitchen
- Hudson Yards
- Kips Bay
- Lenox Hill
- Lincoln Square
- Manhattan Valley
- Midtown
- Midtown South
- Murray Hill
- Roosevelt Island
- Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village
- Times Square
- Turtle Bay
- Union Square
- Upper East Side
- Upper West Side
- Yorkville
List of members representing the district