The Yukon Liberal Party is a political party in the Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

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Arthur Mitchell is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party.

History

After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier

Premier

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 Pat Duncan. The government was plagued with defections, however, and was reduced to minority government

Minority government

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 status. Duncan called a snap election

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 for November 2002 in the hope of regaining her government's majority. The party was almost completely wiped out, however, by the conservative Yukon Party

Yukon Party

The Yukon Party , is a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It was previously known as the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.-Declining fortunes:...

. Duncan won the Liberals' sole seat in the Yukon Party's landslide.

Election results

Year	Yukon Liberal Party Leader	No. Seats	% Popular Vote	Results
1978 Yukon general election, 1978 The 1978 Yukon general election, held on November 20, 1978, was the first conventional legislative election in the history of Canada's Yukon Territory. Prior elections were held to elect representatives to the Yukon Legislative Council, a non-partisan body that acted in an advisory role to the...	Iain McKay	2	26.0%	Official Opposition
1982 Yukon general election, 1982 The 1982 Yukon general election was held on June 7, 1982 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.-Results:-Results by riding:...	Ron Veale	0	15.0%
1985 Yukon general election, 1985 The 1985 Yukon general election was held on May 13, 1985 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party.-Results:-Results by riding:...	Roger Coles Roger Coles (politician) Roger Coles is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Tatchun in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1986. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1984 to 1986....	2	7.6%	Third Party
1989 Yukon general election, 1989 The 1989 Yukon general election was held on 20 February 1989 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party.-Results:-Results by riding:...	Jim McLachlan Jim McLachlan Jim McLachlan is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1989 and from 2001 to 2002. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1986 to 1989....	0	11.1%
1992 Yukon general election, 1992 The 1992 Yukon general election was held on October 19, 1992 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the Yukon Party.-Results by party:-Yukon Votes 1992:...	Paul Thériault	1	16.1%	Fourth Party
1996 Yukon general election, 1996 The 1996 Yukon general election was held on September 30, 1996 to elect the seventeen members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly in Yukon Territory, Canada. The governing Yukon Party, a conservative party, was defeated by the social democratic Yukon New Democratic Party . The NDP formed the...	Ken Taylor	3	24.1%	Third Party
2000 Yukon general election, 2000 The Yukon general election of 2000 was held on April 17, 2000 to elect members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the Yukon Territory in Canada...	Pat Duncan Pat Duncan Pat Duncan is a former politician in the Yukon, Canada. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 2005 and as the sixth Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002...	10	42.7%	Majority Government
2002	Pat Duncan Pat Duncan Pat Duncan is a former politician in the Yukon, Canada. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 2005 and as the sixth Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002...	1	28.96%	Third Party
2006 Yukon general election, 2006 The 36th Yukon general election was held on October 10, 2006, in Yukon, Canada, to elect members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly. The Premier of Yukon asked the territorial Commissioner for a dissolution of the Assembly on September 8, 2006...	Arthur Mitchell Arthur Mitchell (politician) Arthur Mitchell is the leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. He is a former real estate agent and an assistant to John Ostashek, the Yukon Party government leader from 1992 to 1996. He was elected leader in June 2005 in a leadership race against Pat Duncan, the Yukon's first Liberal premier...	5	34.8%	Official Opposition
2011	Arthur Mitchell Arthur Mitchell (politician) Arthur Mitchell is the leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. He is a former real estate agent and an assistant to John Ostashek, the Yukon Party government leader from 1992 to 1996. He was elected leader in June 2005 in a leadership race against Pat Duncan, the Yukon's first Liberal premier...	2	25.2%	Third Party

Leaders

• Iain McKay 1978-1981
• Ron Veale 1981-1984
• Roger Coles
  Roger Coles (politician)
  Roger Coles is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Tatchun in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1986. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1984 to 1986....
  
   1984-1986
• Jim McLachlan
  Jim McLachlan
  Jim McLachlan is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1989 and from 2001 to 2002. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1986 to 1989....
  
  1986-1989
• Paul Thériault ? -1992
• Jack Cable
  Jack Cable
  Ivan John "Jack" Cable is a former Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2000, representing the electoral district of Riverside as a member and leader of the Yukon Liberal Party...
  
   1992-1995 (interim)
• Ken Taylor 1995-1997
• Jack Cable
  Jack Cable
  Ivan John "Jack" Cable is a former Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2000, representing the electoral district of Riverside as a member and leader of the Yukon Liberal Party...
  
   1997-1998 (interim)
• Pat Duncan
  Pat Duncan
  Pat Duncan is a former politician in the Yukon, Canada. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 2005 and as the sixth Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002...
  
   1998-2005
• Arthur Mitchell
  Arthur Mitchell (politician)
  Arthur Mitchell is the leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. He is a former real estate agent and an assistant to John Ostashek, the Yukon Party government leader from 1992 to 1996. He was elected leader in June 2005 in a leadership race against Pat Duncan, the Yukon's first Liberal premier...
  
   2005–present

See also

• List of political parties in Canada
• List of premiers of Yukon
• List of Yukon Leaders of Opposition