List of Yukon general elections
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Yukon Party / Progressive Conservative | Liberal | NDP | Independent |
This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian territory of Yukon's unicameral legislative body, the Yukon Legislative Assembly. The number of seats has increased over time, from eight for the first election in 1900, to the current nineteen. Since 1978, each riding (electoral district) has elected one member by first past the post to the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Political parties were officially recognized and registered beginning in 1978.[1] Yukon is the only Canadian territory to have a partisan legislature.
The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right (going as far back as the introduction of political parties in 1978). The Yukon Party (which was named the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party prior to 1992) has been the most successful since political parties were officially recognised, having won six out of ten elections. The NDP have won three elections, and the Liberal party have won two elections.
1978–present[]
Summary of results[]
The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election. The winning party's total's are shown in bold. There have been two elections (in 1985 and 2021) where the party that formed the government did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.
Election | Total seats |
Yukon Party[A] | Liberal | N.D.P. | Independent | ||||||
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Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | ||||
28th | November 20, 1978 | 16 | 37.1% | 11 | 26.0% | 2 | 20.3% | 1 | 16.6% | 2 | |
29th | June 7, 1982 | 16 | 45.8% | 9 | 15.0% | 0 | 35.4% | 6 | 3.8% | 1 | |
30th | May 13, 1985 | 16 | 46.9% | 6 | 7.6% | 2 | 41.1% | 8 | 4.4% | 0 | |
31st | February 20, 1989 | 16 | 43.9% | 7 | 11.1% | 0 | 45.0% | 9 | – | 0 | |
32nd | October 19, 1992 | 17 | 35.9% | 7 | 16.1% | 1 | 35.1% | 6 | 12.9% | 3 | |
33rd | September 30, 1996 | 17 | 30.4% | 3 | 23.9% | 3 | 39.8% | 11 | 5.9% | 0 | |
34th | April 17, 2000 | 17 | 24.3% | 1 | 42.9% | 10 | 32.8% | 6 | – | 0 | |
35th | November 4, 2002 | 18 | 40.3% | 12 | 29.0% | 1 | 26.9% | 5 | 3.8% | 0 | |
36th | October 10, 2006 | 18 | 40.6% | 10 | 34.7% | 5 | 23.6% | 3 | 1.1% | 0 | |
37th | October 11, 2011 | 19 | 40.5% | 11 | 25.2% | 2 | 32.6% | 6 | 0.50% | 0 | |
38th | November 7, 2016 | 19 | 33.4% | 6 | 39.4% | 11 | 26.2% | 2 | 0.20% | 0 | |
39th | April 12, 2021 | 19 | 39.32% | 8 | 32.37% | 8 | 28.17% | 3 | 0.14% | 0 |
- Note
- A Changed its name from Yukon Progressive Conservative Party to the Yukon Party prior to the 1992 election.
Number of candidates[]
Election | Total no. candidates |
Yukon Party | Liberal | N.D.P. | Independent | ||
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28th | November 20, 1978 | 52 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 10 | |
29th | June 7, 1982 | 51 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 4 | |
30th | May 13, 1985 | 44 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 4 | |
31st | February 20, 1989 | 47 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 0 | |
32nd | October 19, 1992 | 52 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 7 | |
33rd | September 30, 1996 | 54 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 7 | |
34th | April 17, 2000 | 49 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 0 | |
35th | November 4, 2002 | 60 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 6 | |
36th | October 10, 2006 | 58 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 4 | |
37th | October 11, 2011 | 62 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 6 | |
38th | November 7, 2016 | 63 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 1 | |
39th | April 12, 2021 | 56 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 1 |
1900–74[]
There were no territorial parties in the Yukon before 1978. From the territory's creation in 1898 until 1978, the Yukon was governed by a federally appointed Commissioner advised by the Territorial Council. The Territorial council was wholly appointed from 1898 to 1900; part elected, part appointed from 1900 to 1908; and wholly elected from 1909 to 1978.
The number of members varied considerably during the council's 80-year history. The 1900 election elected just two out of eight members; the elections from 1903 to 1907 elected five out of ten members. The wholly elected Council comprised ten members from 1909, which was reduced to three starting with the 1920 election. The number of members was increased to five as of the 1952 election, seven as of the 1961 election, and twelve for the final general election to the Council in 1974.
- 1900 Yukon general election
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- 1931 Yukon general election
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- 1952 Yukon general election
- 1955 Yukon general election
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- 1961 Yukon general election
- 1964 Yukon general election
- 1967 Yukon general election
- 1970 Yukon general election
- 1974 Yukon general election
References[]
- ^ "Yukon Celebrates its 100th Anniversary". Canadian Parliamentary Review. Archived from the original on February 14, 2005. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
Bibliography[]
- "Election Results". Election Almanac. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved 2009-07-01. (Results)
- "General Elections". Elections Yukon. Retrieved 2006-12-02. (Dates; numbers of candidates/members)
- Elections Yukon. "Results by political affiliation: Elections of members to the Yukon Legislative Assembly" (MS Word document). Retrieved 2007-01-11.
- Elections in Yukon
- Canadian election timelines
- Yukon-related lists