New York's 23rd congressional district

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New York's 23rd congressional district
Map
Map
Interactive map of district boundaries
Representative
Distribution
  • 52.44% rural
  • 47.56% urban
Population (2023)764,335
Median household
income		$70,015[1]
Ethnicity
Cook PVIR+12[2]

New York's 23rd congressional district is located in Upstate New York, and covers part of Buffalo's Northtowns, all of the Southtowns, and much of the Southern Tier. The district includes two of the eleven Finger Lakes: Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake.

The district comprises six entire counties: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Schuyler, and Steuben Counties, along with parts of Erie and Niagara Counties.[3] The largest cities in the district are Jamestown, and Elmira.

Democrat Tracy Mitrano challenged Republican incumbent Tom Reed in the November 6, 2018 election.[4] Reed won reelection on November 6, 2018, retaining his seat for a fourth term. Reed's 8.4% margin of victory was his smallest since his first election in 2012.[5] Reed and Mitrano also faced off in 2020, where Reed won again, this time with a margin of 16.6%.

On March 21, 2021, in light of recent sexual harassment allegations, Reed announced that he would not be seeking reelection in 2022.[6] He resigned on May 10, 2022, leaving the seat vacant. A special election was held on August 23, which was won by Republican Joe Sempolinski. Sempolinski opted not to run for a full term in the regularly scheduled 2022 election, which was won by Republican Nick Langworthy.

  1. ^ "My Congressional District". Archived from the original on June 29, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
  2. ^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "About | Congressman Nick Langworthy". langworthy.house.gov. January 3, 2023. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Nick (July 3, 2018). "Tracy Mitrano to face Tom Reed in November Archived July 8, 2018, at the Wayback Machine". Ithaca.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
  5. ^ Ballotpedia "[1] Archived April 10, 2019, at the Wayback Machine". Ballotpedia.com
  6. ^ Stockburger, George (March 21, 2021). "Rep. Tom Reed apologizes after sexual harassment allegations, won't run for Governor, re-election". LocalSYR. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 21, 2021.