The 1996 Yukon general election was held on September 30, 1996 to elect the seventeen members of 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...

 in Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

 Territory, Canada

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...

. The governing 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:...

, a conservative party, was defeated by the social democratic

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

 Yukon New Democratic Party

Yukon New Democratic Party

The Yukon New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Yukon territory of Canada.The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leadership of Tony Penikett from 1985 to 1992, and under the leadership of Piers McDonald from 1996 to 2000. The party's...

 (NDP). The NDP formed the government of the territory with 11 seats. Party leader Piers McDonald

Piers McDonald

Piers McDonald, OC is a Yukon politician and trade unionist.Born in Kingston, Ontario, McDonald, a miner by profession, was vice-president of the Yukon Federation of Labour from 1981-1982...

 became territorial premier

Premier (Canada)

In Canada, a premier is the head of government of a province or territory. There are currently ten provincial premiers and three territorial premiers in Canada....

. The Yukon Party and the centrist 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:...

 each won three seats.

Results by party

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Votes
			Before	After	% Change	#	%
New Democrats Yukon New Democratic Party The Yukon New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Yukon territory of Canada.The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leadership of Tony Penikett from 1985 to 1992, and under the leadership of Piers McDonald from 1996 to 2000. The party's...	Piers McDonald Piers McDonald Piers McDonald, OC is a Yukon politician and trade unionist.Born in Kingston, Ontario, McDonald, a miner by profession, was vice-president of the Yukon Federation of Labour from 1981-1982...	16	6	11	+83%	5774	39.9%
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:...	John Ostashek John Ostashek John Ostashek was a former Yukon politician. An entrepreneur, he was elected leader of the Yukon Party in June 1992 and led it to victory in the fall 1992 election in which he also won a seat in the legislature for the first time....	15	7	3	-57%	4366	30.1%
Liberal 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:...	Ken Taylor	16	1	3	+200%	3486	24.1%
Independent 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...		7	3	0	-100%	852	5.9%
Total		54	17	17		14478	100%

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Party		Seats	Second	Third	Fourth
New Democrats Yukon New Democratic Party The Yukon New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Yukon territory of Canada.The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leadership of Tony Penikett from 1985 to 1992, and under the leadership of Piers McDonald from 1996 to 2000. The party's...	11	3	2	0	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:...	3	8	4	0	Liberal 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:...	3	5	8	0	Independent 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...	0	1	0	6

Riding results

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Faro

Faro (electoral district)

Faro was an electoral district that returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada between 1978 and 2002.-MLAs:*I = Independent*YNDP = Yukon New Democratic Party*YLP = Yukon Liberal Party...

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|Trevor Harding

Trevor Harding (politician)

Trevor Harding is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2001.A member of the Yukon New Democratic Party, he served as the party's interim leader in 2000 following the resignation of Piers McDonald...

530
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|Ed Peake
29
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|Maurice Byblow

Maurice Byblow

Maurice Byblow is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1996....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Klondike

Klondike (electoral district)

Klondike is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. It was the only seat won by the Yukon Party in the 2000 territorial election...

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|Tim Gerberding
372
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|Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins (politician)

Peter Jenkins is a Canadian politician. Formerly deputy premier and health minister in the territorial government of the Yukon, he is currently serving as mayor of Dawson City....

 
603
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|Glen Everitt
96
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|John Cramp
21
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|David Millar

David Millar (politician)

David Millar is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Klondike in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 1996.He was a member of the Yukon Party.-References:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kluane
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|Gary McRobb

Gary McRobb

Gary McRobb is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Kluane in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2011.Originally a member of the Yukon NDP, McRobb was expelled from the party in 2006. He is now a Yukon Liberal Party MLA....

 
377
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|Olli Wirth
144
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|John Farynowski
177
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|Bonnie Lock
66
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|Bill Brewster

Bill Brewster (politician)

Bill Brewster is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Kluane in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1996. He was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party until 1992, and the Yukon Party thereafter....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lake Laberge

Lake Laberge (electoral district)

Lake Laberge is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada.The current MLA is Brad Cathers, who was elected on November 4, 2002, and served as Minister of Health and Social Services and Minister responsible for Yukon Workers'...

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|Doug Livingston

Doug Livingston

Douglas Roy "Doug" Livingston is an educator and former political figure in the Yukon, Canada. He represented Lake Laberge in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999 as a NDP member....

328
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|Mickey Fisher
325
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|Linda Biensch
242
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|Mark Bain
221
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|Mickey Fisher
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|McIntyre-Takhini
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|Piers McDonald

Piers McDonald

Piers McDonald, OC is a Yukon politician and trade unionist.Born in Kingston, Ontario, McDonald, a miner by profession, was vice-president of the Yukon Federation of Labour from 1981-1982...

441
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|Scott Howell
251
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|Rosemary Couch
182
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|Clinton Fraser
21
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|Piers McDonald

Piers McDonald

Piers McDonald, OC is a Yukon politician and trade unionist.Born in Kingston, Ontario, McDonald, a miner by profession, was vice-president of the Yukon Federation of Labour from 1981-1982...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mayo-Tatchun
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|Eric Fairclough

Eric Fairclough

Eric Fairclough is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Mayo-Tatchun in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2011....

454
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|Michael McGinnis
180
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|Danny Joe

Danny Joe

Danny Joe is a former Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Tatchun from 1987 to 1992, and Mayo-Tatchun from 1992 to 1996, in the Yukon Legislative Assembly....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Lorne

Mount Lorne (electoral district)

Mount Lorne is a former electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada....

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|Lois Moorcroft

Lois Moorcroft

Lois Moorcroft is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral districts of Mount Lorne from 1992 to 2000, and Copperbelt South since 2011, in the Yukon Legislative Assembly...

484
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|Allan Doherty
247
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|Ken Taylor
299
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|Allen Luheck
166
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|Lois Moorcroft
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Porter Creek North

Porter Creek North

Porter Creek North is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada...

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|Luigi Zanasi
191
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|John Ostashek

John Ostashek

John Ostashek was a former Yukon politician. An entrepreneur, he was elected leader of the Yukon Party in June 1992 and led it to victory in the fall 1992 election in which he also won a seat in the legislature for the first time....

403
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|Don Roberts
384
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|John Ostashek

John Ostashek

John Ostashek was a former Yukon politician. An entrepreneur, he was elected leader of the Yukon Party in June 1992 and led it to victory in the fall 1992 election in which he also won a seat in the legislature for the first time....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Porter Creek South
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|Mark Dupuis
181
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|Alan Nordling

Alan Nordling

Alan Nordling is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Porter Creek West from 1985 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...

397
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|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...

435
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|Alan Nordling
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Riverdale North
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|Dave Stockdale
347
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|Doug Phillips

Doug Phillips (politician)

Douglas George Phillips, also known as Doug Phillips, is a Canadian businessman and politician and the current Commissioner of Yukon.Born in Toronto in 1946, Phillips moved to Whitehorse with his family as a child. He was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 1985, serving fifteen...

450
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|Flo Leblanc-Hutchinson
146
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|Doug Phillips
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Riverdale South

Riverdale South

Riverdale South is an electoral district which elects a Member of the Legislative Assembly to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada...

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|Barbara Toombs
349
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|Sue Edelman

Sue Edelman

Sue Edelman is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Riverdale South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2002. She was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party. She served as Women's Issues Minister, Health Minister and Social Services Minister.She resigned her post...

476
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|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....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Riverside
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|Gary Umbrich
260
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|Ed Henderson
160
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|Jack Cable

Jack Cable

Ivan John "Jack" Cable is a former Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2000, representing the electoral district of Riverside as a member and leader of the Yukon Liberal Party...

267
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|Jack Cable

Jack Cable

Ivan John "Jack" Cable is a former Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2000, representing the electoral district of Riverside as a member and leader of the Yukon Liberal Party...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rossriver Southern Lakes
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|Dave Keenan
484
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|Bill Munroe
49
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|Willard Phelps

Willard Phelps

Willard Leroy Phelps is a former Yukon politician.-Political career:Phelps was first elected to the territorial legislature in 1974 but did not run in the first election with political party participation in 1978...

317
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|Willard Phelps
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Vuntut Gwitchin
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|Robert Bruce

Robert Bruce (politician)

Robert Bruce is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Vuntut Gwitchin in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2000. He was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party....

69 *
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|Esau Schafer

Esau Schafer

Esau Schafer is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Vuntut Gwitchin in the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 1996. He was a member of the Yukon Party....

69
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|Shirlee Frost
27
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|Esau Schafer
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Watson Lake
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|Dennis Fentie

Dennis Fentie

Dennis G. Fentie, MLA is a Canadian politician. He was the seventh Premier of Yukon and leader of the Yukon Party, serving from 2002 to 2011, as well as the MLA for Watson Lake.-Background:...

442
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|Barrie Ravenhill
249
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|Dave Kalles
106
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|Mickey Thomas
40
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|John Devries

John Devries (Yukon politician)

John Devries is a former political figure in the Yukon, Canada. He represented Watson Lake in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1996 as a member of the Yukon Party....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Whitehorse Centre
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|Todd Hardy

Todd Hardy

Todd Hardy was a Canadian politician, and former Leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party. He has also served as Leader of the Opposition in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2006....

328
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|Linda Dixon
216
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|Jon Breen
188
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|Margaret Commodore

Margaret Commodore

Margaret Muriel Commodore is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Whitehorse North Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1992, and Whitehorse Centre from 1992 to 1996. She was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party.-External links:* , profile...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Whitehorse West

Whitehorse West

Whitehorse West is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada...

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|David Sloan

David Sloan (politician)

David Sloan is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse West in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2000...

486
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|Shelda Hutton
323
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|Larry Bagnell

Larry Bagnell

Lawrence "Larry" Bagnell, PC, MP is a former Canadian politician. He served as a Member of the Canadian House of Commons from 2000 until 2011 sitting with the Liberal caucus in both government and opposition.-Politicial career:...

383
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|David Sloan
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• Because of the tie vote, Robert Bruce was declared elected after his name was drawn from a hat. He was later re-elected after a 1997 by-election after irregularities led to a court order invalidating the election.

Member changes from previous election

• Esau Schafer (YP) elected in by-election after Johnny Able (YP) died
• David Sloan (NDP) elected in by-election after former premier Tony Penikett
  Tony Penikett
  Antony David John Penikett is a mediator and negotiator and former politician in Yukon, Canada.-Life and work:An activist with the New Democratic Party , Penikett was campaign manager in 1972 for Wally Firth, the first indigenous northern MP ever elected to the House of Commons...
  
  (NDP) resigned
• Alan Nordling rejoined the Yukon Party