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1996 Yukon general election

Canadian territorial election

Summary

Canadian territorial election

Field	Value
election_name	1996 Yukon general election
country	Yukon
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1992 Yukon general election
previous_year	1992
previous_mps	28th Yukon Legislative Assembly
next_election	2000 Yukon general election
elected_mps	members
next_year	2000
seats_for_election	17 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly
majority_seats	9
election_date	September 30, 1996
turnout	79.58% ( 2.04pp)
colour1
leader1	Piers McDonald
leader_since1	1995
party1
leaders_seat1	McIntyre-Takhini
last_election1	6
seats1	11
seat_change1	5
popular_vote1	5,760
percentage1	39.81%
swing1	4.73pp
image2	YP
colour2
leader2	John Ostashek
leader_since2	1992
party2
leaders_seat2	Porter Creek North
last_election2	7
seats2	3
seat_change2	4
popular_vote2	4,392
percentage2	30.36%
swing2	5.52pp
image3	YLP
colour3
leader3	Ken Taylor
leader_since3	1995
party3
leaders_seat3	Ran in Mount Lorne (lost)
last_election3	1
seats3	3
seat_change3	2
popular_vote3	3,464
percentage3	23.94%
swing3	7.84pp
map_image	File:Yukon_Territorial_Election_1996_-_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 by the result in each riding. Riding names are listed at the bottom.
title	Government Leader
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	John Ostashek
before_party
after_election	Piers McDonald
after_party

The 1996 Yukon general election was held on September 30, 1996 to elect the seventeen members of the 29th Yukon Legislative Assembly in Yukon Territory, Canada. The governing Yukon Party, a conservative party, was defeated by the social democratic New Democratic Party (NDP). The NDP formed a new majority government of the territory with 11 seats. Party leader Piers McDonald became Premier of Yukon. The Yukon Party and the centrist Yukon Liberal Party each won three seats, although Liberal leader Ken Taylor failed to be elected.

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

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Member Changes from Previous Election

Seat	Before	Change	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Whitehorse West	September 27, 1995	Tony Penikett		Resignation	February 5, 1996	David Sloan
Vuntut Gwitchin	October 13, 1995	Johnny Abel		Death	February 5, 1996	Esau Schafer

The Yukon Legislature after the 1996 election.

Incumbents not Running for Reelection

The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1996 election:

Independent

Bea Firth (Riverdale South)

New Democratic Party

Danny Joe (Mayo-Tatchun)
Margaret Commodore (Whitehorse Centre)

Yukon Party

Bill Brewster (Kluane)
David Millar (Klondike)
John Devries (Watson Lake)

Riding Results

Bold indicates party leaders

† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA |- || |Trevor Harding 530 | | | |Ed Peake 29 | | ||

Trevor Harding

| |Tim Gerberding 372 || |Peter Jenkins 603 | |Glen Everitt 96 | |John Cramp 21 ||

David Millar†

Gary McRobb
377

| |Olli Wirth 144 | |John Farynowski 177 | |Bonnie Lock 66 ||

Bill Brewster†

Doug Livingston
328

| |Mickey Fisher 325 | |Linda Biensch 242 | |Mark Bain 221 ||

Mickey Fisher

Piers McDonald
441

| |Scott Howell 251 | |Rosemary Couch 182 | |Clinton Fraser 21 ||

Piers McDonald

Eric Fairclough
454

| |Michael McGinnis 180 | | | | ||

Danny Joe†

Lois Moorcroft
484

| |Allan Doherty 247 | |Ken Taylor 299 | |Allen Luheck 166 ||

Lois Moorcroft

| |Luigi Zanasi 191 || |John Ostashek 403 | |Don Roberts 384 | | ||

John Ostashek

| |Mark Dupuis 181 | |Alan Nordling 397 || |Pat Duncan 435 | | ||

Alan Nordling

| |Dave Stockdale 347 || |Doug Phillips 450 | |Flo Leblanc-Hutchinson 146 | | ||

Doug Phillips

| | | |Barbara Toombs 349 || |Sue Edelman 476 | | ||

Bea Firth†

| |Gary Umbrich 260 | |Ed Henderson 160 || |Jack Cable 267 | | ||

Jack Cable

Dave Keenan
484

| | | |Bill Munroe 49 | |Willard Phelps 317 ||

Willard Phelps

Robert Bruce
69 *

| |Esau Schafer 69 | |Shirlee Frost 27 | | ||

Esau Schafer

Dennis Fentie
442

| |Barrie Ravenhill 249 | |Dave Kalles 106 | |Mickey Thomas 40 ||

John Devries†

Todd Hardy
328

| |Linda Dixon 216 | |Jon Breen 188 | | ||

Margaret Commodore†

David Sloan
486

| |Shelda Hutton 323 | |Larry Bagnell 383 | | || |David Sloan |}

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.

References

[https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/1996_general_election_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 1996 General Election] Elections Yukon, 1996. Retrieved March 25, 2021
[https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/1996_general_election_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 1996 General Election] Elections Yukon, 1996. Retrieved March 25, 2021

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