Election Name: | 1992 Yukon general election |
Country: | Yukon |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1989 Yukon general election |
Previous Year: | 1989 |
Next Election: | 1996 Yukon general election |
Next Year: | 1996 |
Seats For Election: | 17 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 9 |
Election Date: | October 19, 1992 |
Turnout: | 77.54%[1] |
Image1: | YP |
Leader1: | John Ostashek |
Leader Since1: | 1991 |
Leaders Seat1: | Porter Creek North |
Last Election1: | 7 |
Seats1: | 7 |
Seat Change1: | 0 |
Popular Vote1: | 4,675 |
Percentage1: | 35.88% |
Swing1: | 8.14pp |
Leader2: | Tony Penikett |
Leader Since2: | 1981 |
Leaders Seat2: | Whitehorse West |
Last Election2: | 9 |
Seats2: | 6 |
Seat Change2: | 3 |
Popular Vote2: | 4,571 |
Percentage2: | 35.08% |
Swing2: | 9.81pp |
Image3: | LIB |
Leader3: | Paul Thériault |
Leader Since3: | 1992 |
Leaders Seat3: | Ran in Riverdale South (lost) |
Last Election3: | 0 |
Seats3: | 1 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 2,098 |
Percentage3: | 16.10% |
Swing3: | 5.01pp |
Map Size: | 360px |
Premier | |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
Before Election: | Tony Penikett |
After Election: | John Ostashek |
The 1992 Yukon general election was held on October 19, 1992 to elect members of the 28th Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the Yukon Party.[2]
|- 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;"|1989| style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;"|Dissol.| style="text-align:center;"|1992| style="text-align:center;"|Change| style="text-align:center;"|#| style="text-align:center;"|%| style="text-align:center;"|Change|align=left|John Ostashek|align="right"|14|align="right"|7|align="right"|7|align="right"|7|align="right"|0|align="right"|4,675|align="right"|35.88%|align="right"|-8.14%|align=left|Tony Penikett|align="right"|17|align="right"|9|align="right"|9|align="right"|6|align="right"|-3|align="right"|4,571|align="right"|35.08%|align="right"|-9.81%| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Independent|align="right"|7|align="right"|0|align="right"|0|align="right"|3|align="right"|+3|align="right"|1,686|align="right"|12.94%|align="right"|N/A|align=left|Paul Thériault|align="right"|14|align="right"|0|align="right"|0|align="right"|1|align="right"|+1|align="right"|2,098|align="right"|16.10%|align="right"|+5.01%|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total| style="text-align:right;"|52| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|16| style="text-align:right;"|17| style="text-align:right;"|+1| style="text-align:right;"|13,030| style="text-align:right;"|100.00%| style="text-align:right;"||}The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1992 election:
New Democratic Party
Yukon Party
Bold indicates party leaders
† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Faro||||Jim McLachlan
337|||Trevor Harding
388|||||Maurice Byblow†|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Klondike|||David Millar
409||||Art Webster
355|||||Art Webster|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Kluane|||Bill Brewster
377||||Wolf Riedl
256|||||Bill Brewster|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Lake Laberge|||Mickey Fisher
345||Bonnie Hurlock
210||Sandra Gibbs
192||Chris Gladish
223|||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|McIntyre-Takhini||Scott Howell
290||Larry Bill
126|||Piers McDonald
313|||||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Mayo-Tatchun||Si Mason-Wood
264||Roddy Blackjack
99|||Danny Joe
297|||||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Mount Lorne||Chuck Walker
302||Roger Moore
89|||Lois Moorcroft
316||Barb Harris
202|||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Porter Creek North|||John Ostashek
474||Eldon Organ
125||Carl Rumscheidt
301|||||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Porter Creek South||||Shayne Fairman
261||Brian McLaughlin
240|||Alan Nordling
435|||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Riverdale North|||Doug Phillips
557||Lesley Cabott
106||Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld
292|||||Doug Phillips|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Riverdale South||Dale Stokes
293||Paul Thériault
48||Maurice Byblow
242|||Bea Firth
384|||Bea Firth|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Riverside||Nancy Huston
265|||Jack Cable
291||Joyce Hayden
212|||||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Ross River-Southern Lakes||||Jim Smarch
45||Sam Johnston
234|||Willard Phelps
338
Timothy Cant
92|||New District|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Vuntut Gwitchin|||Johnny Abel
96||||Grafton Njootli
56|||||Norma Kassi†|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Watson Lake|||John Devries
485||Ron Lutz
56||Karel Kauppinen
285|||||John Devries|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Centre||Chuck Rear
286||Phil Wheelton
191|||Margaret Commodore
288|||||Margaret Commodore|-| style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse West||Bob Bruneau
232||Shaun Patrick Dennehy
114|||Tony Penikett
304||Bernd Schmidt
12|||Tony Penikett|}