Election Name: | 1982 Yukon general election |
Country: | Yukon |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1978 Yukon general election |
Previous Year: | 1978 |
Next Election: | 1985 Yukon general election |
Next Year: | 1985 |
Seats For Election: | 16 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 9 |
Election Date: | June 7, 1982 |
Turnout: | 78.72%[1] |
Image1: | PC |
Leader1: | Chris Pearson |
Leader Since1: | December 8, 1978 |
Leaders Seat1: | Whitehorse Riverdale North |
Last Election1: | 11 |
Seats1: | 10 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 4,770 |
Percentage1: | 45.79% |
Swing1: | 8.69pp |
Leader2: | Tony Penikett |
Leader Since2: | 1981 |
Leaders Seat2: | Whitehorse West |
Last Election2: | 1 |
Seats2: | 6 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Popular Vote2: | 3,689 |
Percentage2: | 35.42% |
Swing2: | 15.15pp |
Image3: | Lib |
Leader3: | Ron Veale |
Leader Since3: | 1981 |
Leaders Seat3: | Whitehorse Riverdale South (lost re-election) |
Last Election3: | 2 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Seat Change3: | 2 |
Popular Vote3: | 1,564 |
Percentage3: | 15.02% |
Swing3: | 13.44pp |
Map Size: | 360px |
Premier | |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
Before Election: | Chris Pearson |
After Election: | Chris Pearson |
The 1982 Yukon general election was held on June 7, 1982, to elect members of the 25th Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.
|- 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|- style="background:#ccc;"| style="text-align:center;"|1978| style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;"|Dissol.| style="text-align:center;"|1982| style="text-align:center;"|Change| style="text-align:center;"|#| style="text-align:center;"|%| style="text-align:center;"|Change|align=left|Chris Pearson|align="right"|16|align="right"|11|align="right"|10|align="right"|10|align="right"|-1|align="right"|4,770|align="right"|45.79%|align="right"|+8.69%|align=left|Tony Penikett|align="right"|16|align="right"|1|align="right"|3|align="right"|6|align="right"|+5|align="right"|3,689|align="right"|35.42%|align="right"|+15.15%|align=left|Ron Veale|align="right"|15|align="right"|2|align="right"|2|align="right"|0|align="right"|-2|align="right"|1,564|align="right"|15.02%|align="right"|-13.44%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Independent|align="right"|4|align="right"|2|align="right"|1|align="right"|0|align="right"|-2|align="right"|393|align="right"|3.77%|align="right"|N/A|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total| style="text-align:right;"|51| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|| style="text-align:right;"|10,416| style="text-align:right;"|100.00%| style="text-align:right;"||}Seat | Before | Change | ||||||
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Date | Member | Party | Reason | Date | Member | Party | ||
Old Crow | May 25, 1979 | Grafton Njootli | Removed from PC Caucus | |||||
Whitehorse Riverdale South | January 1981 | Iain MacKay | Resignation | March 9, 1981 | Ron Veale | |||
Campbell | April 27, 1981 | Robert Fleming | Joined PC Caucus | |||||
Faro | September 16, 1981 | Maurice Byblow | Joined NDP Caucus | |||||
Whitehorse South Centre | April 15, 1981 | Jack Hibberd | Resignation | October 13, 1981 | Roger Kimmerly |
The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1982 election:
Progressive Conservative
Bold indicates party leaders
† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Campbell||Robert Fleming
214||Bill Webber
43|||Dave Porter
225|||||Robert Fleming|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Faro||Doris Gates
205||Wayne Peace
160|||Maurice Byblow
357|||||Maurice Byblow|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Hootalinqua|||Al Falle
368||Patrick James
92||Max Fraser
344|||||Al Falle|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Klondike|||Clarke Ashley
306||||Art Webster
283|||||Meg McCall†|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Kluane|||Bill Brewster
241||Alice McGuire
16||Dave Joe
196|||||Alice McGuire|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Mayo||Swede Hanson
173||Eleanor Van Bibber
35|||Piers McDonald
230|||||Swede Hanson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Old Crow|||Kathie Nukon
59||Abraham Peter
29||Bruce Charlie
35||Grafton Njootli
11|||Grafton Njootli|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Tatchun |||Howard Tracey
106||Roger Coles
103||Bill Larson
101|||||Howard Tracey|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Watson Lake||Dave Rollie
142||Eileen Van Bibber
60||James Cahill
18|||Don Taylor
170
Brian Shanahan
154|||Don Taylor|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse North Centre||Geoff Lattin
227||Bert Hadvick
65|||Margaret Commodore
292||Don Branigan
58|||Geoff Lattin|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Porter Creek East|||Dan Lang
645||Betty Toews
92||Gerry Dobson
240|||||Dan Lang|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Porter Creek West|||Andy Philipsen
299||Lawrence Whelan
45||David Cosco
119|||||Doug Graham†|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Riverdale North|||Chris Pearson
395||Jim Kennelly
188||Velma Smith
148|||||Chris Pearson|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Riverdale South|||Bea Firth
562||Ron Veale
469||Jon Pierce
232|||||Ron Veale|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse South Centre||Chuck Rear
320||Carol Christian
108|||Roger Kimmerly
328|||||Roger Kimmerly|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse West||Pat Harvey
508||Adam Skrutkowski
59|||Tony Penikett
541|||||Tony Penikett|}