List of Yukon general elections

Number of seats won by major parties at each election

Yukon Party / Progressive Conservative

Liberal

NDP

Independent

This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian territory of Yukon's unicameral legislative body, the Yukon Legislative Assembly. The number of seats has increased over time, from eight for the first election in 1900, to the current eighteen. Since 1978, each riding (electoral district) has elected one member by first past the post to the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Political parties were officially recognized and registered beginning in 1978.

The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right (going as far back as the introduction of political parties in 1978). The Yukon Party (which was named the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party prior to 1992) has been the most successful since political parties were officially recognised, having won six out of ten elections. The NDP have won three elections, and the Liberal party have won one election.

1978–present

Summary of results

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election. The winning party's total's are shown in bold. There has been only one election (in 1985) where the party that formed the government did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Election			Total seats	Yukon Party[A]		Liberal		N.D.P.		Independent
				Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats
						Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal colspan=2|	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP colspan=2|	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents colspan=2|
28th	November 20, 1978	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives|	16	37.1%	11	26.0%	2	20.3%	1	16.6%	2
29th	June 7, 1982	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives|	16	45.8%	9	15.0%	0	35.4%	6	3.8%	1
30th	May 13, 1985	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP|	16	46.9%	6	7.6%	2	41.1%	8	4.4%	0
31st	February 20, 1989	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP|	16	43.9%	7	11.1%	0	45.0%	9	–	0
32nd	October 19, 1992		17	35.9%	7	16.1%	1	35.1%	6	12.9%	3
33rd	September 30, 1996	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP|	17	30.4%	3	23.9%	3	39.8%	11	5.9%	0
34th	April 17, 2000	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	17	24.3%	1	42.9%	10	32.8%	6	–	0
35th	November 4, 2002		18	40.3%	12	29.0%	1	26.9%	5	3.8%	0
36th	October 10, 2006		18	40.6%	10	34.7%	5	23.6%	3	1.1%	0
37th	October 11, 2011		19	40.5%	11	25.2%	2	32.6%	6	0.50%	0

Note

^A Changed its name from Yukon Progressive Conservative Party to the Yukon Party prior to the 1992 election.

Number of candidates

Election			Total no. candidates	Yukon Party	Liberal	N.D.P.	Independent
					Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal height=10|	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP height=10|	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents height=10|
28th	November 20, 1978	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives|	52	15	13	14	10
29th	June 7, 1982	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives|	51	16	15	16	4
30th	May 13, 1985	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP|	44	16	8	16	4
31st	February 20, 1989	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP|	47	16	15	16	0
32nd	October 19, 1992		52	14	14	17	7
33rd	September 30, 1996	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP|	54	15	16	16	7
34th	April 17, 2000	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	49	15	17	17	0
35th	November 4, 2002		60	18	18	18	6
36th	October 10, 2006		58	18	18	18	4
37th	October 11, 2011		62	19	19	18	6

1900–74

There were no territorial parties in the Yukon before 1978. From the territory's creation in 1898 until 1978, the Yukon was governed by a federally appointed Commissioner advised by the Territorial Council. The Territorial council was wholly appointed from 1898 to 1900; part elected, part appointed from 1900 to 1908; and wholly elected from 1909 to 1978.

The number of members varied considerably during the council's 80-year history. The 1900 election elected just two out of eight members; the elections from 1903 to 1907 elected five out of ten members. The wholly elected Council comprised ten members from 1909, which was reduced to three starting with the 1920 election. The number of members was increased to five as of the 1952 election, seven as of the 1961 election, and twelve for the final general election to the Council in 1974.

• Yukon general election, 1900
• Yukon general election, 1903
• Yukon general election, 1905
• Yukon general election, 1907
• Yukon general election, 1909
• Yukon general election, 1912
• Yukon general election, 1915
• Yukon general election, 1917
• Yukon general election, 1920
• Yukon general election, 1922
• Yukon general election, 1925
• Yukon general election, 1928
• Yukon general election, 1931
• Yukon general election, 1934
• Yukon general election, 1937
• Yukon general election, 1940
• Yukon general election, 1944
• Yukon general election, 1947
• Yukon general election, 1949
• Yukon general election, 1952
• Yukon general election, 1955
• Yukon general election, 1958
• Yukon general election, 1961
• Yukon general election, 1964
• Yukon general election, 1967
• Yukon general election, 1970
• Yukon general election, 1974

Bibliography

• "Election Results". Election Almanac. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved 2009-07-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) (Results)
• "General Elections". Elections Yukon. Retrieved 2006-12-02. (Dates; numbers of candidates/members)
• Elections Yukon. "Results by political affiliation: Elections of members to the Yukon Legislative Assembly" (MS Word document). Retrieved 2007-01-11.