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2000 Yukon general election

Canadian territorial election

Summary

Canadian territorial election

Field	Value
election_name	2000 Yukon general election
country	Yukon
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1996 Yukon general election
previous_year	1996
previous_mps	29th Yukon Legislative Assembly
next_election	2002 Yukon general election
elected_mps	members
next_year	2002
seats_for_election	17 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly
majority_seats	9
election_date	April 17, 2000
turnout	78.58% ( 1.00pp)
image1	[[File:Pat Duncan Yukon Senator.jpg	x160px]]
colour1
leader1	Pat Duncan
party1
leaders_seat1	Porter Creek South
last_election1	3
seats1	10
seat_change1	7
popular_vote1	6,119
percentage1	42.90%
swing1	18.96pp
colour2
leader2	Piers McDonald
party2
leaders_seat2	McIntyre-Takhini
(lost re-election)
last_election2	11
seats2	6
seat_change2	5
popular_vote2	4,677
percentage2	32.80%
swing2	7.01pp
image3	YP
colour3
leader3	John Ostashek
party3
leaders_seat3	Porter Creek North
(lost re-election)
last_election3	3
seats3	1
seat_change3	2
popular_vote3	3,466
percentage3	24.30%
swing3	6.06pp
map_image	File:Yukon_Territorial_Election_2000_-_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	Piers McDonald
before_party
after_election	Pat Duncan
after_party

(lost re-election) (lost re-election) The 2000 Yukon general election was held on April 17, 2000 to elect members of the 30th Yukon Legislative Assembly in the Yukon Territory in Canada. The incumbent NDP government was defeated by the Liberal Party, which formed a majority government.

Standings

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Member Changes from Previous Election

Seat	Before	Change	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Lake Laberge	August 30, 1999	Doug Livingston		Resignation	October 25, 1999	Pam Buckway

Liberals form Official Opposition, following Lake Laberge by-election.

Incumbents not Running for Reelection

The Yukon Legislature after the 2000 election.

The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 2000 election:

Liberal Party

Jack Cable (Riverside)

New Democratic Party

Robert Bruce (Vuntut Gwitchin)

Yukon Party

Doug Phillips (Riverdale North)

Results by Riding

Bold indicates party leaders

† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA |- | | | |Jim McLachlan 53 || |Trevor Harding 177 | | ||

Trevor Harding

Peter Jenkins
424

| |Stuart Schmidt 397 | |Aedes Scheer 249 | | ||

Peter Jenkins

| |Charlie Eikland 208 | |Gerald Brown 113 || |Gary McRobb 405 | | ||

Gary McRobb

| |Roger Gallagher 363 || |Pam Buckway 514 | |Gary LeGoffe 182 | | ||

Pam Buckway

| |John Edzerza 265 || |Wayne Jim 376 | |Piers McDonald 338 | | ||

Piers McDonald

| | | |Wilf Tuck 277 || |Eric Fairclough 446 | | ||

Eric Fairclough

| |Ken Gabb 269 || |Cynthia Tucker 563 | |Lois Moorcroft 422 | | ||

Lois Moorcroft

| |John Ostashek 323 || |Don Roberts 504 | |Sidney Maddison 114 | | ||

John Ostashek

| |Larry W Carlyle 235 || |Pat Duncan 607 | |Mark Dupuis 103 | | ||

Pat Duncan

| |Daphne White 172 || |Dale Eftoda 454 | |Rachael Lewis 233 | | ||

Doug Phillips†

| |Ginny Macdonald 205 || |Sue Edelman 422 | |Heather Finton 237 | | ||

Sue Edelman

| |Michael Wienert
100 || |Scott Kent 359 | |Jasbir Randhawa 202 | | ||

Jack Cable†

| |Ed Hall 150 | |Dorothy John 187 || |Dave Keenan 357 | | ||

Dave Keenan

| |Kathie Nukon 53 | |Esau Schafer 61 || |Lorraine Netro
69 | | ||

Robert Bruce†

| |Mickey Thomas 144 | |Isaac Wood 272 || |Dennis Fentie 434 | | ||

Dennis Fentie

| |Vicki Durrant 130 || |Mike McLarnon 312 | |Todd Hardy 229 | | ||

Todd Hardy

| |Elaine Taylor 425 || |Dennis Schneider 621 | |David Sloan 480 | | || |David Sloan |}

References

[https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/2000_general_election_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 2000 General Election] Elections Yukon, 2000. Retrieved March 25, 2021
[https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/2000_general_election_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 2000 General Election] Elections Yukon, 2000. Retrieved March 25, 2021
[https://electionsyukon.ca/sites/elections/files/1999_lake_laberge_0.pdf Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on a By-election in Lake Laberge] Elections Yukon, 1999. Retrieved March 25, 2021

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