Yukon general election, 2002 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Yukon general election of 2002 was held on November 4, 2002 to elect 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 the 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 in 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...

Results by party

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Before	After	% Change	#	%	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:...	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:...	18	2	12	+500%	5650	40.3%	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...	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....	18	4	5	+25%	3763	26.9%	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:...	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...	18	8	1	-87.5%	4056	29.0%	Independents		6	3	0	-100%	535	3.8%
Total			60	17	18	+5.6	14004	100.0

Party		Seats	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
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:...	12	4	1	1	0	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...	5	2	11	0	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:...	1	12	5	0	0	Independents Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	0	0	1	4	1

Results by riding

names in bold indicate party leaders
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Copperbelt
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|Haakon Arntzen

Haakon Arntzen

Haakon Arntzen is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Copperbelt in the Yukon Legislative Assembly as a member of the Yukon Party....

374
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|Arthur Mitchell

Arthur Mitchell (politician)

Arthur Mitchell is the leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. He is a former real estate agent and an assistant to John Ostashek, the Yukon Party government leader from 1992 to 1996. He was elected leader in June 2005 in a leadership race against Pat Duncan, the Yukon's first Liberal premier...

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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|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....

508
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|Glen Everitt
224
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|Lisa Hutton
200
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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....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kluane
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|Michael Crawshay
124
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|Paul Birckel
109
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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....

442
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|Gary McRobb
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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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|Brad Cathers

Brad Cathers

Brad Cathers is a Canadian politician. He represents the electoral district of Lake Laberge in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.- Political career :...

466
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|Pam Buckway

Pam Buckway

Pam Buckway is a former Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Lake Laberge in the Yukon Legislative Assembly as a member of the Yukon Liberal Party....

218
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|Bill Commins
150
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|Pam Buckway
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|McIntyre-Takhini
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|John Edzerza

John Edzerza

John Edzerza was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of McIntyre-Takhini in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.-Political career:...

288
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|Judy Gingell

Judy Gingell

Judy Gingell, CM is an aboriginal Canadian politician, who served as Commissioner of the Yukon from 1995 to 2000.Born in Whitehorse, Gingell was the founding director of the Yukon Native Brotherhood in 1969...

204
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|Maureen Stephens
270
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|Wayne Jim

Wayne Jim

Wayne Jim is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of McIntyre-Takhini in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002....

129
Geoffrey Capp
15
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|Wayne Jim
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mayo-Tatchun
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|Jerry C. Kruse
102
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|Pat Van Bibber
210
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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....

339
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|Dibs Williams
36
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|Eric Fairclough
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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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|Darcy Tkachuk
271
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|Cynthia Tucker

Cynthia Tucker

Cynthia Tucker is an American columnist and blogger for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. She received a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the...

236
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|Steve Cardiff

Steve Cardiff

Steve Cardiff was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Mount Lorne in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.-Political career:He was first elected to the Yukon legislature in the 2002 general election and re-elected in 2006...

334
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|Cynthia Tucker
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pelly-Nisutlin
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|Dean Hassard

Dean Hassard

Dean Hassard is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Pelly-Nisutlin in the Yukon Legislative Assembly as a member of the Yukon Party from 2002 to 2006....

297
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|Jim McLachlan

Jim McLachlan

Jim 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 leader from 1986 to 1989....

181
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|Buzz Burgess
162
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|Jim McLachlan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Porter Creek Centre
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|Archie Lang

Archie Lang

Archie Lang is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011.-Political career:...

399
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|Scott Kent

Scott Kent

Scott Kent is a Canadian politician, who was elected to in the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Riverdale North as a member of the Yukon Party caucus.-References:...

312
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|Judi Johnny
63
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|Scott Kent
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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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|Jim Kenyon

Jim Kenyon

Jim Kenyon is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the Yukon Party....

331
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|Dave Austin
148
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|Mark Bowers
135
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|Roger Rondeau
112
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|Don Roberts

Don Roberts (politician)

Don Roberts is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002....

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Porter Creek South
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|Lynn Ogden
301
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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...

408
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|Paul Warner
80
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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...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Riverdale North
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|Ted Staffen

Ted Staffen

Ted Staffen is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011, and served as the Speaker of the Legislature. He is a member of the Yukon Party....

446
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|Dale Eftoda

Dale Eftoda

Dale Eftoda is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party caucus.-References:...

355
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|Jan Slipetz
223
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|Dale Eftoda
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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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|Glenn Hart

Glenn Hart

Glenn Hart is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the Yukon Party.-Notes:...

385
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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...

332
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|Cary Gryba
253
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|Sue Edelman
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Southern Lakes
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|Patrick Rouble

Patrick Rouble

Patrick Rouble is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Southern Lakes in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011, serving as the Minister of Education and Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources. He was sworn to cabinet on 28 October 2006.He is a member of the...

227
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|Manfred Janssen
106
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|Rachael Lewis
190
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|Warren Braunberger
41
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|David Keenan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Vuntut Gwitchin
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|Randall Tetlichi
41
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|Joe Tetlichi
34
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|Lorraine Peter

Lorraine Peter

Lorraine Peter, née Netro, is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Vuntut Gwitchin in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2006...

68
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|Lorraine Peter
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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:...

521
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|Tom Cove
130
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|Kathy Magun
174
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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:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Whitehorse Centre
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|Vicki Durrant
171
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|Bernie Phillips
218
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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....

300
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|Mike McLarnon

Mike McLarnon

Mike McLarnon is a lifelong Yukoner and former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002....

207
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|Mike McLarnon
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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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|Elaine Taylor

Elaine Taylor

Elaine Taylor is a Canadian politician. She currently represents the electoral district of Whitehorse West in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.She is a member of the Yukon Party.-References:...

398
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|Dennis Schneider

Dennis Schneider

Dennis Lars Schneider is a real estate agent and political figure in the Yukon, Canada. He represented Whitehorse West in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002 as a Liberal....

319
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|Rachel Grantham
117
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|Dennis Schneider
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Electoral boundary changes from last election

The riding of 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...

was represented by Trevor Harding (NDP). Jim McLachlan (Liberal) was elected in a by-election after Harding resigned. The riding disappeared, absorbed into Pelly-Nisutlin.

The riding of Ross River Southern Lakes represented by Dave Keenan (NDP) was split, with Ross River
Ross River, Yukon
Ross River is an unincorporated community in the Yukon, Canada. It lies at the juncture of the Ross River and the Pelly River, along the Canol Road, not far from the Campbell Highway. Primary access to the Campbell Highway is a nine-mile access road of superior alignment, not the six-mile Canol...

and Teslin
Teslin, Yukon
The community of Teslin includes the Village of Teslin and an adjacent Indian Reserve in the Yukon, Canada. Teslin is situated at historical Mile 804 on the Alaska Highway along Teslin Lake. The Hudson's Bay Company established a small trading post at Teslin in 1903...

going in Pelly-Nisutlin, the rest (Carcross
Carcross, Yukon
Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community in the Territory of Yukon, Canada on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It has a population of 431 and is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation....

and Marsh Lake
Marsh Lake, Yukon
Marsh Lake is an unincorporated bedroom community on the Alaska Highway on the shores of Marsh Lake southeast of Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon. The area was organized in 2001, as a local area council to help the residents with some form of municipal government....

) became Southern Lakes along with the portions of the Mount Lorne riding.

The Whitehorse
Whitehorse, Yukon
Whitehorse is Yukon's capital and largest city . It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1476 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in...

riding of Riverside, (represented by Scott Kent (Lib) who moved to Porter Creek Centre), disappeared absorbed into Whitehorse Centre and Riverdale North.

The Whitehorse riding of Copperbelt is a new riding created by splitting Whitehorse West
Whitehorse West
Whitehorse West is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada...

.

The Whitehorse riding of Porter Creek Centre is a new riding created by splitting 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...

.

Member changes from last election

James R. McLachlan (Liberal) elected in a by-election in the riding of 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...

after the resignation of Trevor Harding in 2000.

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:...

(NDP) defects 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:...

in May 2002 and became leader one month later.

Mike McLarnon (Liberal) defects and becomes an Independent in May 2002.

Wayne Jim (Liberal) defects and becomes an Independent in May 2002.

Don Roberts
Don Roberts (politician)
Don Roberts is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002....

(Liberal) defects and becomes an Independent in May 2002.

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