List of mayors of Whitehorse explained

Post:	Mayor
Body:	Whitehorse
Incumbent:	Laura Cabott
Incumbentsince:	2021
First:	Gordon Armstrong
Termlength:	3 years
Formation:	1950

This is a list of mayors of Whitehorse, the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon. Whitehorse has had an elected mayor and council since its incorporation as a city in 1950; prior to that, Whitehorse existed as an unincorporated settlement with no local municipal government.

The mayor presides over Whitehorse City Council.

List of mayors of Whitehorse

No.	Name	In office		Ref.
1	Gordon Armstrong	1950	1958
2	Gordon Cameron	1958	1960
3	Vic Wylie	1960	1962
4	Ed Jacobs	1962	1966
5	Howard Firth	1966	1968
6	Bert Wybrew	1968	1973
7	Paul Lucier	1974	1976
8	Ione Christensen	1976	1978
—	Art Deer (interim)	1978	1979
9	Don Branigan	1979	1979
10	Flo Whyard	1979	1984
—	Don Branigan	1984	1991
11	Bill Weigand	1991	1994
12	Kathy Watson	1994	2000
13	Ernie Bourassa	2000	2006
14	Bev Buckway	2006	2012
15	Dan Curtis	2012	2021	^[1]
16	Laura Cabott	2021	present

Notes

• Governance of the city was temporarily transferred to a taxpayer advisory committee led by Joseph Oliver for part of 1973, after five of the city's six councillors resigned on July 9, 1973 in protest against a jurisdictional dispute with the Yukon Territorial Council,^[2] leaving the council without a quorum to conduct city business; Wybrew was also dismissed as mayor during this committee governance period. Following a by-election on September 20, 1973, Wybrew returned to office and served until December.^[3]

Election results

2021

Mayoral Candidate	Vote^[4]	%
Laura Cabott	2,897	43.00
Patti Balsillie	1,942	28.83
Samson Hartland	1,898	28.17

2018

Mayoral Candidate^[5]	Vote	%
Dan Curtis	2,933	44.02
Rick Karp	1,908	28.64
Colin Laforme	1,511	22.68
Wilf Carter	163	2.45
Kelly Suits	148	2.22

2015

Mayoral Candidate^[6]	Vote	%
Dan Curtis	4,640	78.48
Wilf Carter	835	14.12
Mandeep Sidhu	437	7.39

External links

• Yukon Statistics: Whitehorse Mayors & Councillors - Hougen Group of Companies

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mayor Dan Curtis Whitehorse, YT. 2020-06-25. www.whitehorse.ca.
2. "Five out of six Whitehorse aldermen resign over harassment, court battle with Yukon". The Globe and Mail, July 11, 1973.
3. http://www.hougengroup.com/yukonhistory/facts_year/1970s.aspx?year70=1973 Yukon History: 1973
4. Web site: City of Whitehorse. 2021-10-22. City of Whitehorse.
5. Web site: Election 2018 Whitehorse, YT. 2020-06-25. www.whitehorse.ca.
6. Web site: Whitehorse Daily Star: Incumbent steamrolls over his adversaries. 2020-06-25. Whitehorse Daily Star. en.