Alan Nordling is a former Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 politician, who represented the electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

 of Whitehorse Porter Creek West from 1985 to 1992, and Porter Creek South

Porter Creek South

Porter Creek South is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was the only seat won by the Yukon Liberal Party in the 2002 territorial election.-MLAs:...

 from 1992 to 1996, in the Yukon Legislative Assembly

Yukon Legislative Assembly

-History:From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon...

. He was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party

Yukon Progressive Conservative Party

The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party was a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It is now known as the Yukon Party.-History:...

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Nordling was first elected to the legislature in 1985. He sat as a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party

Yukon Progressive Conservative Party

The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party was a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It is now known as the Yukon Party.-History:...

 until 1991, when he was one of two MLAs, along with Bea Firth

Bea Firth

Beatrice Ann Firth was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1996. She was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party....

, who quit the caucus in protest against the party's change of name to the Yukon Party

Yukon Party

The Yukon Party , is a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It was previously known as the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.-Declining fortunes:...

. Firth and Nordling thereafter sat as the only members of the Independent Alliance

Independent Alliance

The Independent Alliance Party was a break-away Canadian political party formed in June 1991. The two original members were Bea Firth and Alan Nordling, both former members of the Yukon Party . Both members were elected in the 1992 election, but the alliance quickly crumbled as Nordling rejoined...

. Nordling later rejoined the Yukon Party and ran in the 1996 election

Yukon general election, 1996

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

 as a Yukon Party candidate, but was defeated by Yukon Liberal Party

Yukon Liberal Party

The Yukon Liberal Party is a political party in the Yukon Territory in Canada.Arthur Mitchell is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party.-History:...

 candidate Pat Duncan

Pat Duncan

Pat Duncan is a former politician in the Yukon, Canada. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 2005 and as the sixth Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002...

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