Annie Blake is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the

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 terri ...

in the

2021 Yukon general election The 2021 Yukon general election was held on April 12, 2021 to return members of the 35th Yukon Legislative Assembly. The election resulted in a hung parliament where the incumbent governing Yukon Liberal Party and the opposition Yukon Party won 8 ...

. She represents the electoral district of Vuntut Gwitchin as a member of the

Yukon New Democratic Party The Yukon New Democratic Party (NDP; french: Nouveau Parti démocratique du Yukon) is a Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Yukon, political party in the Yukon territory of Canada. The Yukon NDP first formed the gover ...

. She finished in a 78–78 tie with incumbent MLA

Pauline Frost Pauline Frost is a Canadians, Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in the 2016 Yukon general election, 2016 election. She represented the electoral district of Vuntut Gwitchin (electoral district), Vuntut Gwitc ...

on election night, which was further confirmed on a recount. Under Yukon election law, an exact tie between candidates is settled by drawing lots, and Blake was drawn as the winner. This was the second time in the history of the district, following the

1996 Yukon general election The 1996 Yukon general election was held on September 30, 1996 to elect the seventeen members of the 29th Yukon Legislative Assembly in Yukon Territory, Canada. The governing Yukon Party, a conservative party, was defeated by the social democratic ...

, that an election resulted in an exact tie settled in this manner. Blake currently serves as Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committee of the Whole of the

Electoral record

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