Election Name: | 1903 Yukon general election |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Next Election: | 1905 Yukon general election |
Next Year: | 1905 |
Seats For Election: | All 5 elected seats of the Yukon Territorial Council. Two members of unknown political affiliation were elected in District No. 2. Results in District 1 and Whitehorse: |
Election Date: | January 13, 1903 |
Map Size: | 360px |
Popular Vote1: | 2,460 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,407 |
Percentage1: | 32.19% |
Percentage2: | 18.70% |
Seats1: | 2 |
Seats2: | 1 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Popular Vote3: | 367 |
Percentage3: | 6.28% |
Previous Election: | 1900 Yukon general election |
Previous Year: | 1900 |
The 1903 Yukon general election was held on January 13, 1903.[1] The council was expanded to elect five of the ten members to the Yukon Territorial Council. The election was fought along party lines even though the council was limited in its powers and played an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner.
The Yukon was divided up into three electoral districts by the Yukon Territorial Council. The two rural districts were named Districts No. 1 and No 2. and each elected two members while Whitehorse became its own electoral district, electing just one.
After the election the validity of the election was called into question because the Yukon council might have overstepped its authority dividing up the Yukon into electoral districts.
|- style="background:#ccc;"! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Affiliation!rowspan="2"|
Candidates! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Elected members!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote|- style="background:#ccc;"| style="text-align:center;"|1900| style="text-align:center;"|1903| style="text-align:center;"|Change| style="text-align:center;"|#| style="text-align:center;"|%| style="text-align:center;"|Change (pp)|align="right"|4|align="right"|0|align="right"|2|align="right"|n/a |align="right"|1,880|align="right"|32.19%|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|2|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|1|align="right"|n/a |align="right"|1,092|align="right"|18.70%|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|1|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|0|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|367|align="right"|6.28%|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|9|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|2|align="right"|n/a|align="right"|2,501|align="right"|42.83%|align="right"|n/a|-|- style="background:#EAECF0;"| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|Total| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|2| style="text-align:right;"|5| style="text-align:right;"|5| style="text-align:right;"|5,840| style="text-align:right;"|100%| style="text-align:right;"||}District | Member elected | Affiliation | |
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District No. 1 | Joseph Clarke | Opposition | |
Alfred Thompson | Government | ||
District No. 2 | John Pringle | Unknown | |
Maxime Landreville | Unknown | ||
Whitehorse | Robert Lowe | Government |