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1978 Yukon general election
Canadian territorial election
Canadian territorial election
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 1978 Yukon general election |
| country | Yukon |
| type | parliamentary |
| ongoing | no |
| party_colour | no |
| party_name | no |
| previous_election | 1974 Yukon general election |
| previous_year | 1974 |
| previous_mps | 23rd Yukon Territorial Council |
| next_election | 1982 Yukon general election |
| elected_mps | members |
| next_year | 1982 |
| seats_for_election | 16 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly |
| majority_seats | 9 |
| election_date | November 20, 1978 |
| turnout | 70.43% ( 6.03pp) |
| colour1 | |
| leader1 | Hilda Watson |
| leader_since1 | 1978 |
| party1 | |
| leaders_seat1 | Kluane |
| (lost re-election) | |
| last_election1 | pre-creation |
| seats1 | 11 |
| seat_change1 | 11 |
| popular_vote1 | 2,869 |
| percentage1 | 37.10% |
| image2 | Lib |
| colour2 | |
| leader2 | Iain MacKay |
| leader_since2 | 1978 |
| party2 | |
| leaders_seat2 | Ran in Whitehorse Riverdale South (won) |
| last_election2 | pre-creation |
| seats2 | 2 |
| seat_change2 | 2 |
| popular_vote2 | 2,201 |
| percentage2 | 28.46% |
| image3 | NDP |
| colour3 | |
| leader3 | Fred Berger |
| leader_since3 | 1978 |
| party3 | |
| leaders_seat3 | Klondike |
| (lost re-election) | |
| last_election3 | pre-creation |
| seats3 | 1 |
| seat_change3 | 1 |
| popular_vote3 | 1,568 |
| percentage3 | 20.27% |
| map_image | Yukon_Territorial_Election_1978_-_Results_by_Riding.svg |
| map_size | 360px |
| map_caption | Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Riding names are listed at the bottom. |
| title | Premier |
| posttitle | Premier after election |
| before_election | None (position established) |
| after_election | Chris Pearson |
| after_party |
(lost re-election) (lost re-election)
Hilda Watson, the first woman ever to lead a political party into an election in Canada, was the leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Although the party won the election, Watson herself was defeated in Kluane by Liberal candidate Alice McGuire, and thus did not become government leader. The position of government leader instead went to Chris Pearson.
New Democratic leader Fred Berger was also defeated in his own riding. He remained leader of the party until 1981, when he was succeeded by the party's sole elected MLA, Tony Penikett. Under Penikett's leadership, an MLA who had been elected as an independent in 1978 joined the NDP, and the party won a by-election. With its caucus increased to three members, the NDP had thus supplanted the Liberals as the official opposition by the time of the 1982 election.
Results by Party
|- style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party leader !rowspan="2"|Candidates ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Seats !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote
| - style="background:#ccc;" |
|---|
| } |
Incumbents not Running for Reelection
The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1978 election:
Independent
- Flo Whyard (Whitehorse West)
- Willard Phelps (Whitehorse Riverdale)
Results by Riding
Bold indicates party leaders
† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA |- | |Don McIntosh 61 | |Blake Stirling Macdonald 120 | |Margaret Thomson 65 || |Robert Fleming 184 ||
| New District |
|---|
| | | | | |Stuart McCall 231 || |Maurice Byblow 361 ||
| New District |
|---|
| Al Falle |
| 209 |
| |Mike Laforet 83 | |Max Fraser 159 | |Mack Henry 44 ||
| Robert Fleming |
|---|
| Meg McCall |
| 152 |
| | | |Fred Berger 130 | |Eleanor Millard 114 ||
| Fred Berger |
|---|
| |Hilda Watson 150 || |Alice McGuire 188 | | | |John Livesey 49 ||
| Hilda Watson |
|---|
| Swede Hanson |
| 95 |
| |Gordon McIntyre 84 | |Alan McDiarmid 82 | |David Harwood 85 ||
| Gordon McIntyre |
|---|
| Grafton Njootli |
| 62 |
| |Edith Tizya 29 | |Robert Bruce 19 | | ||
| New District |
|---|
| Howard Tracey |
| 109 |
| |Hugh Netzel 71 | |Jerry Roberts 83 | | ||
| New District |
|---|
| Don Taylor |
| 226 |
| |Grant Taylor 188 | | | | ||
| Don Taylor |
|---|
| Geoff Lattin |
| 153 |
| |Dermot Flynn 83 | |Doug Stephenson 131 | |Ken McKinnon 141 ||
| Ken McKinnon |
|---|
| Dan Lang |
| 322 |
| |Bill Webber 202 | |Paul Warner 84 | | ||
| New District |
|---|
| Doug Graham |
| 188 |
| |Clive Tanner 142 | |Kathy Horton 60 | | ||
| New District |
|---|
| Chris Pearson |
| 358 |
| |Richard Rotondo 194 | |Dave Dornian 59 | | ||
| New District |
|---|
| |Margaret Heath 354 || |Iain MacKay 420 | |Jim McCullough 113 | | ||
| New District |
|---|
| Jack Hibberd |
| 245 |
| |Bert Law 197 | |Ken Krocker 122 | | ||
| Jack Hibberd |
|---|
| |Anthony Fekete 185 | |John Watt 200 || |Tony Penikett 230 | |Al Omotani 81 Guy Julien 37 || |Flo Whyard† |}
Aftermath
After the election, four of the elected members in the Progressive Conservative Party, including Chris Pearson, were added to the Executive Committee headed by Commissioner Art Pearson. In October 1979, at the instruction of Jake Epp, Federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the Commissioner withdrew from direct government administration; Chris Pearson became Government Leader (equal to Premier), added a fifth member of the PC Party caucus, and formed the Executive Council of Yukon, thus beginning responsible government with an elected head of government in The Yukon. Art Pearson would later resign as Commissioner after pleading guilty to charges related to improper mining claim transfers and was replaced with Frank Fingland.
References
References
- [https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/1978_general_election_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 1978 General Election] Elections Yukon, 1978. Retrieved March 26, 2021
- [https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/1978_general_election_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 1978 General Election] Elections Yukon, 1978. Retrieved March 26, 2021
- [https://commissionerofyukon.ca/commissioners-1948-2018 Commissioners of the Yukon, 1948-2018 ] Commissioners of the Yukon, 1948-2018. Retrieved March 26, 2021
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