Yukon Liberal Party

Yukon Liberal Party
_{Parti libéral du Yukon}
Yukon Liberal Party; Parti libéral du Yukon
	Active territorial party
Leader	Sandy Silver
President	Ranj Pillai
Founded	1898
Headquarters	Unit 183, 108 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon; Y1A 6C4
Ideology	Liberalism
Political position	Centre
Colours	Red
Seats in Legislature	1 / 19
Website
	www.ylp.ca
	Politics of Yukon; Political parties; Elections;

The Yukon Liberal Party is a political party in the territory of Yukon, Canada.

Sandy Silver, MLA for Klondike, is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party.^[1]

History[edit]

After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier Pat Duncan. The government was plagued with defections, however, and was reduced to minority government status. Duncan called a snap election for November 2002 in the hope of regaining her government's majority. The party was almost completely wiped out, however, by the conservative Yukon Party. Duncan won the Liberals' sole seat in the Yukon Party's landslide.

Election results[edit]

Year	Yukon Liberal Party Leader	No. Seats	% Popular Vote	Results
1978	Iain MacKay	2	26.0%	Official Opposition
1982	Ron Veale	0	15.0%
1985	Roger Coles	2	7.6%	Third Party
1989	Jim McLachlan	0	11.1%
1992	Paul Thériault	1	16.1%	Fourth Party
1996	Ken Taylor	3	24.1%	Third Party
2000	Pat Duncan	10	42.7%	Majority Government
2002	Pat Duncan	1	28.96%	Third Party
2006	Arthur Mitchell	5	34.8%	Official Opposition
2011	Arthur Mitchell	2	25.2%	Third Party