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2000 Yukon General Election
The 2000 Yukon general election was held on April 17, 2000 to elect members of the 30th Yukon Legislative Assembly in the Yukon Territory in Canada. The incumbent NDP government was defeated by the Liberal Party, which formed a majority government. Standings , - style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;", Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;", Party leader !rowspan="2", ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;", Seats !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;", Popular vote , - style="background:#ccc;" , style="text-align:center;", 1996 , style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;", Dissol. , style="text-align:center;", 2000 , style="text-align:center;", Change , style="text-align:center;", # , style="text-align:center;", % , style="text-align:center;", Change , align=left, Pat Duncan , align="right", 17 , align="right", 3 , align="right", 4 , align="right", 10 , align="right", +7 , align="right", 6,119 , align="right", 42.90% , align= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Legislative Assembly
The Yukon Legislative Assembly (french: Assemblée législative du Yukon) is the legislative assembly for Yukon, Canada. Unique among Canada's three territories, the Yukon Legislative Assembly is the only territorial legislature which is organized along political party lines. In contrast, in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, their legislative assemblies are elected on a non-partisan basis and operate on a consensus government model. Each member represents one electoral district, elected through first-past-the-post voting. Members of the Legislative Assembly are sworn in by the Commissioner of Yukon. History From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon. Following the passage of the Yukon Elections Act in 1977, the Territorial Council was replaced by the current Legislative Assembly, which was elected for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Cable (politician)
Ivan John Cable (August 17, 1934 – July 21, 2021) was a Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2000, representing the electoral district of Riverside as a member and interim leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. He was first elected in the 1992 election and again in the 1996 election. He was subsequently appointed the commissioner of Yukon, serving from October 1, 2000 to December 1, 2005. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he practiced law in Whitehorse for 21 years. As a public servant, he has been director of the Northern Canada Power Commission, president of its successor Yukon Energy Corporation, a founding member of Recycle Organics Together Society, director of Yukon Science Institute, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Salvation Army Adult Residential Centre and president of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Learning Disabilities Association of the Yukon, the Association of Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edzerza
John Edzerza (August 14, 1948 – November 25, 2011) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of McIntyre-Takhini in the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Political career Born in British Columbia in 1948, he first entered politics in 2002 as a Yukon Party MLA, and served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Education in Dennis Fentie's cabinet. After disagreeing with a number of government decisions in early 2006, he resigned from the Yukon Party on August 2, 2006, to sit as an independent MLA, and recontested his seat in that fall's territorial election as a candidate of the Yukon New Democratic Party. He was re-elected, and served in the NDP caucus under Todd Hardy until January 2009, when he resigned from the NDP to sit again as an independent. He rejoined the Yukon Party on October 22, 2009, and served as Minister of the Environment until retiring in 2011. Edzerza died of leukemia on November 25, 2011. Electoral record Yukon general election, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary McRobb
Gary Douglas McRobb is a Canadian politician, who represented the rural Yukon electoral district of Kluane in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2011. Political career McRobb entered public life to protect Aishihik Lake from further hydroelectric projects. He was elected as a member of the incoming New Democrat government of Piers McDonald in the 1996 Yukon election. Though McRobb was not appointed to Cabinet, he was appointed Cabinet Commissioner for Energy, Mines and Resources in the McDonald administration. He also served as Deputy Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly. McRobb was re-elected as a member of the New Democrats in the 2000 and 2002 Yukon elections, and served as Opposition House Leader and New Democrat caucus critic for Tourism, Energy, Mines and Resources, Transportation, Information, and Communications, the Yukon Development Corporation, and the Yukon Energy Corporation. In 2006, McRobb was expelled from the New Democrat caucus by then-leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kluane
Kluane is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is named after Kluane National Park, which is within the riding. It is one of the Yukon's eight rural districts. Kluane represents all Yukon communities and residents along the Alaska Highway west of Whitehorse and south to Alaska. This includes the communities of Haines Junction, Burwash Landing, Destruction Bay, Beaver Creek, and Mendenhall, as well as parts of the Ibex and Macpherson-Grizzly valleys. It is situated on the traditional territory of the Kluane First Nation, the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, the White River First Nation, the Selkirk First Nation, and the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation. The district was first created in 1974, when the Yukon Territorial Council was expanded from seven to 12 members as a prelude to the creation of the new legislative assembly. It is one of the oldest electoral districts in the Yu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jenkins (politician)
Peter William Jenkins (April 30, 1944 – October 2021) was a Canadian politician, who served as deputy premier and health minister in the territorial government of the Yukon, and as mayor of Dawson City. Biography Jenkins, a hotelier, first ran for the territorial legislature in 1989, but lost to NDP cabinet minister Art Webster. Jenkins' campaign manager at that time was future Liberal Premier Pat Duncan. Prior to entering provincial politics, he served as mayor of Dawson City from 1980 to 1994,"Jenkins seeks Dawson City mayor's job, again" , September 24, 2009. earning the nickname "Pirate Pete" after he registered for |
Klondike (electoral District)
Klondike is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. One of Yukon's eight rural ridings, it is also the oldest riding in Yukon, first established in 1905. The riding includes Dawson City and its environs, as well as Eagle Plains. Klondike was the only seat won by the Yukon Party in the 2000 territorial election and the only seat held by the Liberals prior to the 2016 territorial election. Geography The constituency is named after the region of Klondike. Members of the Territorial Council / Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 general election 2016 general election , - , Liberal , Sandy Silver , align="right", 687 , align="right", 59.1% , align="right", +10.3% , - , - , NDP , Jay Farr , align="right", 111 , align="right", 9.5% , align="right", -4.0% , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 1163 ! align= 100.0% ! align= – 2011 general election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Harding (politician)
Trevor Harding is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2001. A member of the Yukon New Democratic Party, he served as the party's interim leader in 2000 following the resignation of Piers McDonald. Following his stint as the party's interim leader, he resigned from the legislature and was succeeded by Jim McLachlan of the Yukon Liberal Party in a by-election. Following his retirement from politics, Harding moved to Calgary, Alberta and launched Zero Gravity, a marketing and communications company. Electoral record 2000 general election , - , NDP , Trevor Harding , align="right", 177 , align="right", 76.6% , align="right", -17.7% , Liberal , Jim McLachlan , align="right", 53 , align="right", 22.9% , align="right", +17.7% , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total ! align= 231 ! align= 100.0% ! align= – 1996 general election , - , NDP , Trevor Harding , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McLachlan
James Robert McLachlan is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1989 and from 2001 to 2002. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1986 to 1989. He became the party's interim leader after the resignation of Roger Coles due to criminal charges.Yukon History at Hougen Group of Companies Electoral record 2002 general election , - , style="width: 130px" , , Jim McLachlan , align="right", 181 , align="right", 28.3% , align="right", – , - , |
Faro (electoral District)
Faro was an electoral district that returned a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada between 1978 and 2002. It was created out of the riding of Pelly River The Pelly River (Ts'ekínyäk Chú) is a river in Canada, and is a headstream of the Yukon River. The river originates west of the Mackenzie Mountains and flows long through the south central Yukon. The Pelly has two main tributaries, the R ... and encompassed the community of Faro, Yukon, Faro. It was situated on the traditional territory of the Ross River Dena Council of the Kaska Dena. The riding was dissolved in 2002 and amalgamated into the new riding of Pelly-Nisutlin, which includes the communities of Faro, Yukon, Faro, Teslin, Yukon, Teslin, Ross River, Yukon, Ross River, and Little Salmon. Faro is the former seat of Yukon Liberal Party, Yukon Liberal leader Jim McLachlan and Yukon New Democratic Party, New Democrat Trevor Harding (politician), Trevor Harding, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverdale North
Riverdale North is an electoral district which elects a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. Along with Riverdale South, it makes up the subdivision of Whitehorse of Riverdale. The district also includes the residents of Long Lake Road. Riverdale North is bordered by the Whitehorse ridings of Riverdale South, Whitehorse Centre, Takhini-Kopper King, Porter Creek North, and Porter Creek Centre, as well as the rural riding of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes. Elections Yukon, 2009. retrieved January 24, 2017 MLAs Election history 2021 general election 2016 general election , - , - !align=left colspan=3, Total !align=1117 !align=100.0% !align= ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Phillips (politician)
Douglas George Phillips "PM welcomes Douglas George Phillips as Yukon's next Commissioner". Prime Minister of Canada's website, November 30, 2010. Accessed March 1, 2011. (born December 4, 1946) is a businessman and politician and the from 2010 to 2018. Born in Toronto in 1946, Phillips moved to with his family as a child. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |