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1985 Yukon General Election
The 1985 Yukon general election was held on May 13, 1985 to elect members of the 26th Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was the first Yukon general election with live results coverage on television, and was suspenseful as telecommunications problems prevented the results of the Old Crow riding from being known outside of that community. It was won by the New Democratic Party. Results by Party , - 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;", 1982 , style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;", Dissol. , style="text-align:center;", 1985 , style="text-align:center;", Change , style="text-align:center;", # , style="text-align:center;", % , style="text-align:center;", Change , align=left, Ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Legislative Assembly
The Yukon Legislative Assembly () 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 the first time in the 1978 Yukon gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Byblow
Maurice John Byblow (June 23, 1946 – February 11, 2020) was a Canadians, Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district (Canada), electoral district of Faro (electoral district), Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1996. Originally elected as an independent (politics), independent, Byblow joined the Yukon New Democratic Party caucus on September 16, 1981. He retired in 1985, and was succeeded by Jim McLachlan. He was re-elected to the legislature in the 1989 Yukon general election, 1989 election, and served until 1992. He later served as an executive assistant to NDP leader Piers McDonald, and both were implicated in a conflict of interest allegation, although both McDonald and Byblow were eventually cleared. After retiring from politics, Byblow purchased the Capital Hotel in downtown Whitehorse, Yukon, Whitehorse in 1997, and worked as a hotelier until selling the hotel in early 2008. Byblow died on February 11, 2020. Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarke Ashley
Clarke is a surname which means "clerk". The surname is of English and Irish origin and comes from the Latin . Variants include Clerk and Clark. Clarke is also uncommonly chosen as a given name. Irish surname origin Clarke is a common surname in Ireland. The Irish version of the surname is believed to have come from County Galway and County Antrim and spread to County Donegal and County Dublin. The name is derived from the Irish Gaelic sept , meaning "clerk". English surname origin Clarke, as well as Clark, is also a widespread surname in England. The English version is of Anglo-Saxon origin and was used in the Middle Ages for the name of a scribe or secretary. The word "clerc", which came from the pre-7th century Old English (meaning priest), originally denoted a member of a religious order, but later became widespread. In the Middle Ages, virtually the only people who could read and write were members of religious orders, linking the word with literacy. Thus the surname became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Webster
Arthur Victor Webster is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Klondike in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1992. He was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party. He was defeated by David Millar of the Yukon Party in the 1992 election. He subsequently served as mayor of Dawson City Dawson City is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest municipality in Yukon. History Prior t ... from 1994 to 1996. References 1946 births Living people Mayors of Dawson City Politicians from Toronto Yukon New Democratic Party MLAs 20th-century members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly 20th-century mayors of places in Yukon {{Yukon-mayor-stub ... [...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" , Liberal , Jim McLachlan , align="right", 181 , align="right", 28.3% , align="right", – , - , |
Dave Porter (Canadian Politician)
David Paul Porter (born November 24, 1953) is a former Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon from 1982 to 1989. He was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party. Porter was born at Lower Post, British Columbia in 1953. He was first elected in the 1982 election as MLA for Campbell. He shifted to the district of Watson Lake for the 1985 election, in which he was reelected, and served as House Leader and Deputy Premier in the government of Tony Penikett."Penikett recalls years of dominance from the left" '''', May 17, 2010. He did not run for reelection in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Johnston (Yukon Politician)
Samuel Timothy Johnston (born November 20, 1935) is a former Canadian politician in the territory of Yukon, Canada. He served as chief of the Teslin Tlingit Council from 1970 to 1984, and represented Campbell (electoral district), Campbell in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1992 as a Yukon New Democratic Party, NDP member. He was born in Teslin, Yukon, the son of David Peter Johnston and Rose Morris, and was educated in Carcross, Yukon, Carcross. In 1983, he married Kelly Ruth Hyatt. Johnston served as List of Speakers of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, Speaker for the assembly from 1985 to 1992. He was the first native Canadian to serve as a legislative speaker in Canada. In the 1992 Yukon general election, 1992 election, Johnston was defeated by independent Willard Phelps in the redistributed riding of Ross River-Southern Lakes. He served as chancellor for Yukon College from 2004 to 2008. Johnston also competed in archery at the North American Indigenous Games a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell (electoral District)
Campbell was a territorial electoral district in the Canadian territory of Yukon, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon from 1978 to 1992. The district was first created for the 1978 Yukon general election, from parts of Hootalinqua, Pelly River and Watson Lake."Yukon Election '78: The Biggest Race Yet". ''Whitehorse Star'', November 7, 1978. The district was designed so that First Nations voters would be a majority. In that election, it was one of two districts in the territory to elect an independent MLA, despite the adoption of a new political party structure in territorial politics; Bob Fleming was particularly disdainful of party politics during the campaign, calling it a "great schmozzle", but relented and joined the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party in 1981. Fleming was defeated in the 1982 Yukon general election by Dave Porter of the Yukon New Democratic Party, and the district remained an NDP stronghold for the remainder of its existence. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vuntut Gwitchin (electoral District)
Vuntut Gwitchin is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. It is one of the Yukon's eight rural seats. The electoral district was known as Old Crow, named after the community it encompasses, before 1992. In the 1974 election and the 1970 election, the riding was part of Ogilvie and Dawson, respectively. It is the least populated electoral district in any provincial or territorial legislature in Canada, with fewer than 200 total ballots cast in any territorial election to date. In two elections since the district's creation, in 1996 and 2021, two candidates finished in an exact tie; under Yukon election law, a tied vote is settled by drawing lots rather than by reconducting a full by-election. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 As both candidates each received 78 votes, it resulted in a tie. A judicial recount took place and there remained a tie vote, therefo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathie Nukon
Kathie Emma Nukon (born January 8, 1947, in Old Crow, Yukon) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Old Crow in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1985. She was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. The daughter of a trading post owner in Old Crow, Nukon studied in Whitehorse to be a nursing assistant but worked mainly as an office manager and bookkeeper in her father's store until her election to the legislature. She ran again as a Yukon Party The Yukon Party, formerly the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. History The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party was founded in April 1978. Long time Yukon legislator Hilda Watson was ... candidate in the 2000 election but was not re-elected to the legislature. Nukon also served on the band council of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation from 1996 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2012. References 1947 births Living p ... [...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 2016 , - , - !align=left colspan=3, Total !align=1117 !align=100.0% !align= – 2011< ...
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Chris Pearson (politician)
Christopher William Pearson (April 29, 1931 – February 14, 2014) was the second leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party and the first premier of Yukon. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Pearson moved to the Yukon in 1957 and worked for the government from 1960 until 1973 when he entered private business. Prior to 1978, the territory had a non-partisan legislature with no individual acting as leader of the government or Premier. Career Pearson was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the 1978 election. He was not the party's leader going into the election campaign, but was chosen as government leader because of the defeat of leader Hilda Watson in her own riding. He became the leader of the Yukon Territory Progressive Conservative Party on December 8, 1978, when Watson resigned as leader. Pearson led the Yukon's first party government until his resignation in 1985. Pearson's government opposed transboundary native land claims and argued that the territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |