Election Name: | 1989 Yukon general election |
Country: | Yukon |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1985 Yukon general election |
Previous Year: | 1985 |
Next Election: | 1992 Yukon general election |
Next Year: | 1992 |
Seats For Election: | 16 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 9 |
Election Date: | February 20, 1989 |
Turnout: | 77.07%[1] |
Leader1: | Tony Penikett |
Leader Since1: | 1981 |
Leaders Seat1: | Whitehorse West |
Last Election1: | 8 |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 5,275 |
Percentage1: | 44.89% |
Swing1: | 3.79pp |
Leader2: | Willard Phelps |
Leader Since2: | 1985 |
Leaders Seat2: | Hootalinqua |
Last Election2: | 6 |
Seats2: | 7 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 5,172 |
Percentage2: | 44.02% |
Swing2: | 2.89pp |
Image3: | Lib |
Leader3: | Jim McLachlan |
Leader Since3: | 1986 |
Leaders Seat3: | Faro (lost re-election) |
Last Election3: | 2 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Seat Change3: | 2 |
Popular Vote3: | 1,303 |
Percentage3: | 11.09% |
Swing3: | 3.45pp |
Map Size: | 360px |
Premier | |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
Before Election: | Tony Penikett |
After Election: | Tony Penikett |
The 1989 Yukon general election was held on 20 February 1989 to elect members of the 27th Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party.
|- 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;"|1985| style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;"|Dissol.| style="text-align:center;"|1989| style="text-align:center;"|Change| style="text-align:center;"|#| style="text-align:center;"|%| style="text-align:center;"|Change|align=left|Tony Penikett|align="right"|16|align="right"|8|align="right"|9|align="right"|9|align="right"|+1|align="right"|5,275|align="right"|44.89%|align="right"|+3.79%|align=left|Willard Phelps|align="right"|16|align="right"|6|align="right"|6|align="right"|7|align="right"|+1|align="right"|5,172|align="right"|44.02%|align="right"|-2.89%|align=left|Jim McLachlan|align="right"|15|align="right"|2|align="right"|1|align="right"|0|align="right"|-2|align="right"|1,303|align="right"|11.09%|align="right"|+3.45%|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total| style="text-align:right;"|47| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|| style="text-align:right;"|11,750| style="text-align:right;"|100.00%| style="text-align:right;"||}Seat | Before | Change | ||||||
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Date | Member | Party | Reason | Date | Member | Party | ||
Whitehorse Porter Creek West | September 13, 1985 | Andy Philipsen | Death | February 10, 1986 | Alan Nordling | |||
Tatchun | October 31, 1986 | Roger Coles | Resignation | February 2, 1987 | Danny Joe |
The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1989 election:
New Democratic Party
Bold indicates party leaders
† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Campbell||Mickey Thomas
120||Carl Smarch
78|||Sam Johnston
321|||Sam Johnston|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Faro||Mel Smith
90||Jim McLachlan
168|||Maurice Byblow
194|||Jim McLachlan|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Hootalinqua|||Willard Phelps
541||Rodger Thorlakson
112||Graham McDonald
508|||Willard Phelps|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Klondike||Peter Jenkins
295|||||Art Webster
385|||Art Webster|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Kluane|||Bill Brewster
210||Bill Woolsey
37||Ron Chambers
183|||Bill Brewster|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Mayo||Mike McGinnis
93||Wilf Tuck
34|||Piers McDonald
210|||Piers McDonald|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Old Crow||Kathie Nukon
45||Ethel Tizya
40|||Norma Kassi
69|||Norma Kassi|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Tatchun ||Paul Nieman
108||Luke Lacasse
71|||Danny Joe
165|||Danny Joe|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Watson Lake|||John Devries
298||John McDonald
63||Karel Kauppinen
295|||Dave Porter†|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse North Centre||Pat Joe
155||Don Branigan
154|||Margaret Commodore
251|||Margaret Commodore|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Porter Creek East|||Dan Lang
606||Patty O'Brien
59||Paul Harris
292|||Dan Lang|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Porter Creek West|||Alan Nordling
651||Eldon Organ
55||John Wright
392|||Alan Nordling|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Riverdale North|||Doug Phillips
563||Ray Jackson
30||Louis Paquet
410|||Doug Phillips|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Riverdale South|||Bea Firth
648||Gray Jones
79||John Sheppard
440|||Bea Firth|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse South Centre||Gerry Thick
228||Phil Wheelton
163|||Joyce Hayden
350|||Roger Kimmerly†|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse West||Flora Evans
491||Joe Jack
160|||Tony Penikett
810|||Tony Penikett|}