New York's 27th congressional district

The 27th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in Western New York. It includes all of Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, and Livingston counties and parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara, and Ontario counties. The district contains most of the eastern and southern suburbs of Buffalo, most of the southern suburbs of Rochester, as well rural areas to the east. Chris Collins has represented the district since 2013.

Voting

Components: past and present

2013–present:

All of Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston

Parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario

2003–2013:

All of Chautauqua

Part of Erie

1993–2003:

All of Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming

Parts of Cayuga, Erie, Monroe, Seneca

1983–1993:

All of Onondaga

Parts of Madison

1973–1983:

All of Broome, Sullivan, Tioga

Parts of Chemung, Delaware, Tompkins, Ulster

1971–1973:

All of Orange, Putnam

Parts of Dutchess, Rockland, Sullivan

1963–1971:

All of Delaware, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan

1945–1963:

All of Putnam

Parts of Westchester

1913–1945:

All of Columbia, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Notes
District created		March 4, 1823
Moses Hayden	D-R	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Adams	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827
Daniel D. Barnard	Adams	March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Timothy Childs	Anti-Masonic	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Frederick Whittlesey	Anti-Masonic	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	Redistricted to 28th district
Edward Howell	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joshua Lee	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John T. Andrews	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Meredith Mallory	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William M. Oliver	Democratic	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Byram Green	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John De Mott	Democratic	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John M. Holley	Whig	March 4, 1847 – March 8, 1848	Died
Vacant		March 8, 1848 – December 4, 1848
Esbon Blackmar	Whig	December 4, 1848 – March 3, 1849	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William A. Sackett	Whig	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John J. Taylor	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Mason Parker	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859
Alfred Wells	Republican	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Alexander S. Diven	Republican	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Robert B. Van Valkenburgh	Republican	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	Redistricted from 28th district
Hamilton Ward	Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1871	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Horace B. Smith	Republican	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873	Redistricted to 28th district
Thomas C. Platt	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	Redistricted to 28th district
Elbridge G. Lapham	Republican	March 4, 1875 – July 29, 1881	Resigned after being elected to US Senate
Vacant		July 30, 1881 – November 7, 1881
James W. Wadsworth	Republican	November 8, 1881 – March 3, 1885	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Sereno E. Payne	Republican	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	Redistricted from 26th district
Newton W. Nutting	Republican	March 4, 1887 – October 15, 1889	Died
Vacant		October 16, 1889 – December 2, 1889
Sereno E. Payne	Republican	December 2, 1889 – March 3, 1893	Redistricted to 28th district
James J. Belden	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895	Redistricted from 25th district
Theodore L. Poole	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
James J. Belden	Republican	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Michael E. Driscoll	Republican	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903	Redistricted to 29th district
James S. Sherman	Republican	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1909	Redistricted from 25th district
Charles S. Millington	Republican	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1911	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Charles A. Talcott	Democratic	March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913	Redistricted to 33rd district
George McClellan	Democratic	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Charles B. Ward	Republican	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1925	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Harcourt J. Pratt	Republican	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1933	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Philip A. Goodwin	Republican	March 4, 1933 – June 6, 1937	Died
Vacant		June 7, 1937 – November 1, 1937
Lewis K. Rockefeller	Republican	November 2, 1937 – January 3, 1943	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Jay LeFevre	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945	Redistricted to 30th district
Ralph W. Gwinn	Republican	January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1959	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Robert R. Barry	Republican	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963	Redistricted to 25th district
Katharine St. George	Republican	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965	Redistricted from 28th district
John G. Dow	Democratic	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1969	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Martin B. McKneally	Republican	January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1971	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John G. Dow	Democratic	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1973	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Howard W. Robison	Republican	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975	Redistricted from 33rd district
Matthew F. McHugh	Democratic	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1983	Redistricted to 28th district
George C. Wortley	Republican	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1989	Redistricted from 32nd district
James T. Walsh	Republican	January 3, 1989 – January 3, 1993	Redistricted to 25th district
L. William Paxon	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999	Redistricted from 31st district
Thomas M. Reynolds	Republican	January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2003	Redistricted to 26th district
Jack Quinn	Republican	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2005	Redistricted from 30th district
Brian Higgins	Democratic	January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2013	Redistricted to 26th district
Chris Collins	Republican	January 3, 2013 – Present	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]

The precursor to the district was the central Erie county seat numbered the 30th District in the 1990s. In the 1980s this area was in the 33rd District. In the 1970s it was numbered the 37th District, although certain suburban areas were in the 38th District (later the 31st). None of these districts included the Jamestown area, which had always been in the southern tier district (now the 29th district) in prior maps.

The 27th District covered the area now in the 26th District in the 1990s and the Syracuse area (now the 25th District) in the 1980s. It was the Southern Tier seat now numbered the 22nd in the 1970s. In the 1960s this district was in the lower Hudson Valley covering the area now in the 19th District.

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").

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

See also

• List of United States congressional districts
• New York's congressional districts
• United States congressional delegations from New York

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
• 2004 House election data Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 2002 House election data "
• 2000 House election data "
• 1998 House election data "
• 1996 House election data "