2025 Yukon general election

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2025 Yukon general election
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←  2021 On or before November 3, 2025
All 21 seats to the Legislative Assembly
11 seats needed for a majority
 
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NDP
Leader Currie Dixon Ranj Pillai Kate White
Party Yukon Party Liberal New Democratic
Leader since May 23, 2020 January 9, 2023May 4, 2019
Leader's seat Copperbelt North Porter Creek South Takhini-Kopper King
Last election8 seats, 39.32%8 seats, 32.37%3 seats, 28.17%
Current seats883
Incumbent Premier

Ranj Pillai
Liberal



The 2025 Yukon general election will be held on or before November 3, 2025, to elect members to the 36th Yukon Legislative Assembly. Under amendments to the territorial Elections Act passed in 2020, the first fixed election date following the 2021 Yukon general election is set as November 3, 2025. [1] All subsequent elections will take place on the first Monday in November of the fourth calendar year following the previous election. [2] The legislative assembly may be dissolved earlier by order of the Commissioner of Yukon due to a motion of no confidence in the current minority government or on the advice of the premier.

On September 9, 2022, Sandy Silver announced his intention to resign as premier and party leader, staying on until the party elects a successor. [3] He was succeeded by Ranj Pillai in 2023. [4]

Following the final report from the citizen's assembly on electoral reform, the territorial government announced on September 19, 2024, that a referendum on adopting a ranked voting system will be held simultaneously with the 2025 general election. [5] The opposition Yukon Party reiterated its stance that changes to Yukon's electoral system should have to go through a referendum, while expressing its preference for first-past-the-post. [6]

In view of the population changes across the territory, the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission was set up to redraw the constituencies to balance the discrepancy of the population each MLA represents. In their final report, a two-seat expansion of the size of the assembly (from 19) was recommended, with both new ridings located in Whitehorse. [7] This was to reflect the city’s significantly greater population growth than the average of the territory in over a decade. The final proposal was approved by the MLAs in November 2024 and is taking effect in this election subsequently. [8] [9]

Opinion polls

Polling firmLast date
of polling		Link Liberal Yukon NDP Other Margin
of error		Sample
size		Polling methodLead
LégerJanuary 24, 2024 HTML 20443514.35%500phone9
LégerSeptember 21, 2022 HTML 23453024.35%500phone15

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References

  1. ↑ Ritchie, Haley (December 30, 2020). "Marathon fall legislature sitting ends". Yukon News . Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Elections Act , R.S.Y. 2002, c. 63, s. 50.01, as amended by S.Y. 2020, c. 11
  3. ↑ "Yukon Premier Sandy Silver to step down, asks Liberal Party to find a new leader". CBC News . September 9, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Ranj Pillai, acclaimed as Yukon Liberal leader, becomes premier this weekend". CBC.ca. January 9, 2023. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  5. ↑ Pilkington, Caitrin (September 19, 2024). "Yukon government to hold referendum on electoral reform in 2025". CBC News. Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  6. ↑ Hatherly, Dana (September 26, 2024). "Yukon Party prefers current voting system despite citizens' assembly's ranked ballot pitch". Yukon News . Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  7. ↑ "EDBC Final Report 2024" (PDF). Elections Yukon. October 9, 2024. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Yukon MLAs vote to redraw electoral map, with 2 new Whitehorse ridings". CBC News. November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024) receives assent in the Yukon Legislative Assembly". Government of Yukon. November 21, 2024. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
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