List of Yukon general elections

Number of seats won by major parties at each election

Yukon Party / Progressive Conservative

Liberal

NDP

Independent

This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian territory of Yukon's unicameral legislative body, the Yukon Legislative Assembly, formerly the Yukon Territorial Council. The number of members in the Yukon assembly has increased over time, from six appointed members in the late 1800s, to eight (only two elected) in Yukon's first election in 1900, to the current nineteen (all elected).

From 1898 to 1978, the legislative body in Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council. This body did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon. At the beginning it did not have law-making ability and was composed of appointed members or mixture of appointed and elected members.

Political parties were used on some pre-1920 elections but then fell out of use. Parties were introduced in 1978, when the Yukon Legislative Assembly was established.

Yukon used multi-member districts during part of its early history. In 1903 and from 1909 to 1920, two members were elected at a time in all or some of its districts. Other times it used single-member districts.

Since 1978, each riding (electoral district) has elected one member by first past the post to the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Political parties were officially recognized and registered beginning in 1978. Yukon is the only Canadian territory to have a partisan legislature.

The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right (going as far back as the introduction of political parties in 1978). The Yukon Party (which was named the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party prior to 1992) has been the most successful since political parties were officially recognised, having won six out of ten elections. The NDP have won three elections, and the Liberal party have won two elections.

1978–present

Summary of results

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election. The winning party's total's are shown in bold. There have been two elections (in 1985 and 2021) where the party that formed the government did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Election			Total seats	Yukon Party[A]		Liberal		N.D.P.		Independent
				Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats
28th	November 20, 1978		16	37.1%	11	26.0%	2	20.3%	1	16.6%	2
29th	June 7, 1982		16	45.8%	9	15.0%	0	35.4%	6	3.8%	1
30th	May 13, 1985		16	46.9%	6	7.6%	2	41.1%	8	4.4%	0
31st	February 20, 1989		16	43.9%	7	11.1%	0	45.0%	9	–	0
32nd	October 19, 1992		17	35.9%	7	16.1%	1	35.1%	6	12.9%	3
33rd	September 30, 1996		17	30.4%	3	23.9%	3	39.8%	11	5.9%	0
34th	April 17, 2000		17	24.3%	1	42.9%	10	32.8%	6	–	0
35th	November 4, 2002		18	40.3%	12	29.0%	1	26.9%	5	3.8%	0
36th	October 10, 2006		18	40.6%	10	34.7%	5	23.6%	3	1.1%	0
37th	October 11, 2011		19	40.5%	11	25.2%	2	32.6%	6	0.50%	0
38th	November 7, 2016		19	33.4%	6	39.4%	11	26.2%	2	0.20%	0
39th	April 12, 2021		19	39.32%	8	32.37%	8	28.17%	3	0.14%	0

Note

^A Changed its name from Yukon Progressive Conservative Party to the Yukon Party prior to the 1992 election.

Number of candidates

Election			Total no. candidates	Yukon Party	Liberal	N.D.P.	Independent
28th	November 20, 1978		52	15	13	14	10
29th	June 7, 1982		51	16	15	16	4
30th	May 13, 1985		44	16	8	16	4
31st	February 20, 1989		47	16	15	16	0
32nd	October 19, 1992		52	14	14	17	7
33rd	September 30, 1996		54	15	16	16	7
34th	April 17, 2000		49	15	17	17	0
35th	November 4, 2002		60	18	18	18	6
36th	October 10, 2006		58	18	18	18	4
37th	October 11, 2011		62	19	19	18	6
38th	November 7, 2016		63	19	19	19	1
39th	April 12, 2021		56	18	19	18	1

1900–74

There were no territorial parties in the Yukon before 1978. From the territory's creation in 1898 until 1978, the Yukon was governed by a federally appointed Commissioner advised by the Territorial Council. The Territorial council was wholly appointed from 1898 to 1900; part elected, part appointed from 1900 to 1908; and wholly elected from 1909 to 1978.

The number of members varied considerably during the council's 80-year history. The 1900 election elected just two out of eight members; the elections from 1903 to 1907 elected five out of ten members. The wholly elected Council comprised ten members from 1909, which was reduced to three starting with the 1920 election. The number of members was increased to five as of the 1952 election, seven as of the 1961 election, and twelve for the final general election to the Council in 1974.

• 1900 Yukon general election
• 1903 Yukon general election
• 1905 Yukon general election
• 1907 Yukon general election
• 1909 Yukon general election
• 1912 Yukon general election
• 1915 Yukon general election
• 1917 Yukon general election
• 1920 Yukon general election
• 1922 Yukon general election
• 1925 Yukon general election
• 1928 Yukon general election
• 1931 Yukon general election
• 1934 Yukon general election
• 1937 Yukon general election
• 1940 Yukon general election
• 1944 Yukon general election
• 1947 Yukon general election
• 1949 Yukon general election
• 1952 Yukon general election
• 1955 Yukon general election
• 1958 Yukon general election
• 1961 Yukon general election
• 1964 Yukon general election
• 1967 Yukon general election
• 1970 Yukon general election
• 1974 Yukon general election

Bibliography

• "Election Results". Election Almanac. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved 2009-07-01. (Results)
• "General Elections". Elections Yukon. Retrieved 2006-12-02. (Dates; numbers of candidates/members)
• Elections Yukon. "Results by political affiliation: Elections of members to the Yukon Legislative Assembly" (MS Word document). Retrieved 2007-01-11.