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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 , align=" ...
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Yukon Legislative Assembly
The Yukon Legislative Assembly (french: Assemblée législative du Yukon) is the legislative assembly for Yukon, Canada. Unique among Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada, 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 democracy, non-partisan basis and operate on a consensus government model. Each member represents one List of Yukon territorial electoral districts, electoral district, elected through first-past-the-post voting. Members of the Legislative Assembly are Oath of office, 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 E ...
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Tatchun (electoral District)
Tatchun was an electoral district which returned an MLA to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was created in 1978 out of the ridings of Klondike and Pelly River. It was abolished in 1992 when it was amalgamated with the riding of Mayo to form the riding of Mayo-Tatchun. The district included the communities of Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, and Little Salmon. It was situated on the historical territory of the Selkirk First Nation, the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun, the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, and the Ross River Dena Council of the Kaska Dena. At creation, the population of the electorate was 325 voters and by abolition it was 418 voters. When partisan politics was introduced to the Yukon in the 1978 election, Tatchun was one of the initial electoral districts established. At the time, it was one of the Yukon's nine rural ridings. It was bordered by the ridings of Mayo, Klondike, Faro, Kluane, Hootalinqua, and Campbell. Tatchun is also ...
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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 ...
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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, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest town in Yuko ... from 1994 to 1996. References 1946 births Living people Mayors of Dawson City Politicians from Toronto Yukon New Democratic Party MLAs {{Yukon-mayor-stub ...
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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 , ...
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Maurice Byblow
Maurice John Byblow (June 23, 1946 – February 11, 2020) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1996. Originally elected as an 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 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 in 1997, and worked as a hotelier until selling the hotel in early 2008. Byblow died on February 11, 2020. Electoral record , - , Independent , Maurice Byblow , style="text-align:right;", 361 , style="text-align:right;", 60.1% , style="te ...
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Sam Johnston (Yukon Politician)
Samuel Timothy Johnston (born November 20, 1935) is a Canadians, Canadian former 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 Indigeno ...
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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 dis ...
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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", , align="right", , Liberal , Bert Law , align="right", 197 , align="right", , align="right", , NDP , Ken Krocker , align="right", 122 , align="right", , align="right", , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= ! align= , - , NDP , Roger Kimmerly , align="right", 203 , alig ...
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Roger Kimmerly
Roger Stephen Kimmerly is a Canadian former 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."Staunch New Democrat remembered for his passion". ''Whitehorse Star'', March 4, 2009. He was first elected in a by-election in 1981, following the resignation of Jack Hibberd. His victory resulted in the New Democrats replacing the Yukon Liberal Party The Yukon Liberal Party (french: Parti libéral du Yukon) is a political party in the territory of Yukon, Canada. The party is not organizationally linked to the federal Liberal Party of Canada in any official manner. Sandy Silver, MLA for Klond ... as the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. He was subsequently re-elected in the 1982 and 1985 elections. He did not run in the 1989 election. References 1948 births Living people Politicians from Ottawa Yukon New Democratic Party ML ...
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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. It is bordered to the west by the rural riding of Pelly-Nisutlin. It is considered a Yukon Party stronghold. Members of the Territorial Council / Legislative Assembly Electoral results 2021 general election The Yukon NDP nominated candidate Amy Labonte. Two days after the close of nominations, following controversy over past social media posts, Labonte withdrew her candidacy on March 24, 2021.https://electionsyukon.ca/en/withdrawl-of-candidate Watson Lake became the only electoral district in the Yukon without an NDP candidate. For ...
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