Faro was an electoral district that returned a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the

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in Canada between 1978 and 2002. It was created out of the riding of

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and encompassed the community of Faro. It was situated on the traditional territory of the

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of the

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. The riding was dissolved in 2002 and amalgamated into the new riding of

Pelly-Nisutlin Pelly-Nisutlin is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was created in 2002 out of the districts of Faro and Ross River-Southern Lakes. The riding includ ...

, which includes the communities of Faro, Teslin, Ross River, and Little Salmon. Faro is the former seat of Yukon Liberal leader

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 lead ...

and New Democrat Trevor Harding, who briefly served as interim leader of the

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and interim Leader of the Official Opposition after his party's defeat in the 2000 territorial election.

History

When partisan politics were first introduced to the Yukon, Faro was one of the territory's nine rural seats. Originally bordered by the ridings of Tatchun and Campbell, at the time of its dissolution it was bordered by the ridings of

Mayo-Tatchun Mayo-Tatchun is an electoral district which returns an MLA to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It is an amalgamation of the former Mayo and Tatchun electoral districts. Mayo-Tatchun is currently one of the Yukon's ...

and

Ross River-Southern Lakes Ross River-Southern Lakes was a territorial electoral district in Yukon. The district elected one member to the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2002. At the 2002 election, the district was divided between Pelly-Nisutlin and Southern ...

. Faro is the home of the Faro Mine, at one point the largest open pit lead–zinc mine in the world as well as a significant producer of silver and other natural resource ventures. At its peak in 1982, the community was home to 2,100 residents, but at the time of the riding's dissolution, the community of Faro was home to just 400 people. When the Faro Mine's operators announced the indefinite closure of the operation, the effect devastated the territorial economy, as it represented approximately 40% of territorial GDP. Several corporations sought to restart the Faro Mine, but the final attempt, that of Anvil Range Mining Corporation, ceased in January 1998, followed by the bankruptcy of Anvil Range. Faro continued to shrink in population as a community as the successive mining operations went under. In 2002, the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission ruled that Faro's population had fallen far below acceptable levels to merit its own riding.Final Report, 2002 Electoral District Boundaries Commission
Elections Yukon, 2002. Retrieved January 24, 2017. The riding of Faro was dissolved and the community of Faro joined the communities of Teslin, Ross River, and Little Salmon to form the new riding of

MLAs

Electoral results

2000 By-election

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, Harold Boehm , align="right", 66 , align="right", 33.5% , align="right", -43.1% , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 197 !align="right", 100.0% !align="right", – *''On the resignation of Trevor Harding (2000).''

2000 general election

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, Trevor Harding , align="right", 177 , align="right", 76.6% , align="right", -17.7% , Liberal ,

, 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

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, Trevor Harding , align="right", 530 , align="right", 94.3% , align="right", +41.1% , Liberal , Ed Peake , align="right", 29 , align="right", 5.2% , align="right", -41.0% , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total ! align= 562 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –

1992 general election

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, Trevor Harding , align="right", 388 , align="right", 53.2% , align="right", +10.4% , Liberal ,

, align="right", 337 , align="right", 46.2% , align="right", +9.1% , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total ! align= 729 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –

1989 general election

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, align="right", 168 , align="right", 37.1% , align="right", -2.2% , - , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 453 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –

1985 general election

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, align="right", 142 , align="right", 39.3% , align="right", +17.1% , - ,

, Sibyl Frei , align="right", 121 , align="right", 33.5% , align="right", -15.8% , - , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 361 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –

1982 general election

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, align="right", 357 , align="right", 49.3% , align="right", +10.4% , - , - , Liberal , Wayne Peace , align="right", 160 , align="right", 22.1% , align="right", +22.1% , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 724 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –

1978 general election

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References

External links

Elections Yukon
{{DEFAULTSORT:Faro (Electoral District) Former Yukon territorial electoral districts