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1989 Yukon General Election
The 1989 Yukon general election was held on 20 February 1989 to elect members of the 27th Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. 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;", 1985 , style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;", Dissol. , style="text-align:center;", 1989 , style="text-align:center;", Change , style="text-align:center;", # , style="text-align:center;", % , style="text-align:center;", Change , align=left, Tony Penikett , align="right", 16 , align="right", 8 , align="right", 9 , align="right", 9 , align="right", +1 , align="right", 5,275 , align="right", 44.89% , align="right", +3.79% , align=left, Willard Phelps , ali ... [...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] |
Alan Nordling
Alan Ronald Nordling (born May 25, 1952) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Porter Creek West from 1986 to 1992 and Porter Creek South from 1992 to 1996, in the Yukon Legislative Assembly. He was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. Nordling was first elected to the legislature in a by-election on February 10, 1986. He sat as a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party until 1991, when he was one of two MLAs, along with Bea Firth, who quit the caucus in protest against the party's change of name to the Yukon Party. Firth and Nordling thereafter sat as the only members of the Independent Alliance. Nordling later rejoined the Yukon Party and ran in the 1996 election as a Yukon Party candidate, but was defeated by Yukon Liberal Party candidate Pat Duncan Patricia Jane Duncan (born April 8, 1960) is a Canadian politician from Yukon. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 200 ... [...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] |
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 may refer to: Places Canada * Klondike, Yukon, a region in the Yukon :* Klondike (electoral district), a district of the Legislative Assembly of Yukon * Klondike Highway, connecting Skagway, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon * Klondike River, the landmark after which is named: ** Klondike Gold Rush, a historical migration to this part of the Yukon ** Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park ** North Klondike River, a tributary of the Klondike River United States * Klondike, DeKalb County, Georgia * Klondike, Hall County, Georgia * Klondike, Illinois * Klondike, Indiana * Klondike, Maryland * Klondike, Louisville, Kentucky * Klondike, Missouri * Klondike, Oregon * Klondike, Pennsylvania * Klondike, Dawson County, Texas * Klondike, Delta County, Texas * Klondike, West Virginia * Klondike, Kenosha County, Wisconsin * Klondike, Oconto County, Wisconsin * Klondike Glacier, in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming * Klondike Park (St. Charles County), in St. Charles County, Mi ... [...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] |
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] |
Whitehorse South Centre
Whitehorse South Centre was a territorial electoral district in Yukon. Serving the city of Whitehorse, the district elected one member to the Yukon Territorial Council from 1974 to 1978, and to the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1992. Members Election results , - , Independent , Jack Hibberd , align="right", 267 , align="right", , align="right", , Independent , Tony Penikett , align="right", 143 , align="right", , align="right", , Independent , Ron Veale , align="right", 130 , align="right", , align="right", , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= ! align= , - , Progressive Conservative , Jack Hibberd , align="right", 245 , align="right", 43.44 , align="right", , Liberal , Bert Law , align="right", 197 , align="right", 34.93 , align="right", , NDP , Ken Krocker , align="right", 122 , align="right", 21.63 , align="right", , - , align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes , align="right", 564 , align="right", 100 , - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Kimmerly
Roger Stephen Kimmerly is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse South Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party. Early career Before entering politics, Kimmerly worked as a lawyer in Ottawa and Yellowknife. He served as a Yukon territorial court judge for three years. Political career In July 1981, Kimmerly was nominated by the Yukon New Democratic Party as its candidate for the October by-election for the electoral district of Whitehorse South Centre. The riding had been left vacant following the resignation of Jack Hibberd. Kimmerly won the by-election, which resulted in the New Democrats replacing the Yukon Liberal Party as the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. He was re-elected in the 1982 and 1985 elections. Following the 1985 election, which saw the Yukon New Democratic Party form government for the first time, Kimmerly was appointed Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson Lake (electoral District)
Watson Lake is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. The riding is one of the Yukon's eight rural ridings and is one of the oldest ridings in the Yukon. Watson Lake includes the communities of Watson Lake and Upper Liard and is situated on the traditional territory of the Ross River Dena Council and the Liard First Nation of the Kaska Dena. In accordance with thYukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024) this riding will experience a significant westward expansion of boundaries into what is currently the neighbouring Pelly-Nisutlin and be renamed to Watson Lake-Ross River-Faro at the 2025 Yukon general election. It is considered a Yukon Party stronghold. Members of the Territorial Council / Legislative Assembly Electoral results 2021 The Yukon NDP nominated candidate Amy Labonte. Two days after the close of nominations, following controversy over past social medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |