39th Yukon general election

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39th Yukon general election

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All 19 seats to the Legislative Assembly
10 seats needed for a majority
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YP
NDP
Leader Sandy Silver Stacey Hassard Kate White[1]
Party Liberal Yukon Party New Democratic
Leader since August 17, 2012 December 3, 2016 (interim) May 4, 2019
Leader's seat Klondike Pelly-Nisutlin Takhini-Kopper King
Last election 11 seats, 39.4% 6 seats, 33.4% 2 seats, 26.2%
Current seats 11 6 2
Seats needed Steady Increase4 Increase8

Incumbent Premier

Sandy Silver
Liberal



The 39th Yukon general election will return members to the 35th Yukon Legislative Assembly. There is no fixed election date law in Yukon, so the maximum length that a legislature may sit is determined by Section 4 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: "no legislative assembly shall continue for longer than five years from the date fixed for the return of the writs at a general election of its members".[2] The writs for the previous general election were returned November 14, 2016,[3] making an election probable for 2021.

Opinion Polls[edit]

Polling Firm Poll Published Link Liberal Yukon Party NDP Green Other
DataPath Systems December 20, 2017 HTML 47 36 11 5 1
Election 2016 November 7, 2016 PDF 39.4 33.4 26.2 0.8 0.2

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Kate White to be the new leader of the Yukon NDP". Yukon News. April 24, 2019. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
  2. ^ James R. Robertson; Sebastian Spano (2008-09-29). "Electoral Rights: Charter of Rights and Freedoms". Library of Parliament - Parliamentary Information and Research Service. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  3. ^ "Blues" (PDF). Yukon Legislative Assembly. January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017.