Copperbelt (electoral district)

Copperbelt

Yukon electoral district
Copperbelt in relation to other electoral districts in Whitehorse (c. 2006)
Defunct territorial electoral district
Legislature	Yukon Legislative Assembly
First contested	2002
Last contested	2006
Demographics
Electors (2006)	1,748
Census subdivision(s)	Copper Ridge, Granger, Hillcrest, Lobird, MacRae, Pineridge

Copperbelt was an electoral district which returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It included the Whitehorse subdivisions of Hillcrest, Granger, Pineridge, MacRae, and part of Copper Ridge. It also included the Lobird mobile home park.

The riding was divided into the new ridings of Copperbelt South, Copperbelt North, Mountainview, and Takhini-Kopper King in 2009. The substantial amount of new housing development in the riding since its creation had led to a significant increase in population that had imbalanced the riding's size compared to others in the territory.

Copperbelt is the former seat of Yukon Liberal Party leader Arthur Mitchell, who was Yukon's Leader of the Official Opposition from 2005-2011.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
31th	2002-2004		Haakon Arntzen	Yukon Party
	2004-2005			Independent
	2005-2006		Arthur Mitchell	Yukon Liberal Party
32nd	2006-2011

Election results

2006

2006 Yukon general election ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	632	52.5%	+3.0%
	Yukon Party	Russ Hobbis	374	31.1%	+11.6%
	NDP	David Hedmann	191	15.9%	-14.8%
Total			1204	100.0%	–

2005 by-election

By-election: November 21, 2005 ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	459	49.5%	+16.9%
	NDP	Maureen Stephens	285	30.7%	+3.2%
	Yukon Party	Cynthia Kearns	181	19.5%	-19.6%
Total			927	100.0%	–

• On the resignation of Haakon Arntzen (September 2005).

2002

2002 Yukon general election ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Yukon Party	Haakon Arntzen	374	39.1%	–
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	312	32.6%	–
	NDP	Lillian Grubach-Hambrook	263	27.5%	–
Total			957	100.0%	–

See also

• List of Yukon territorial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

1. Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 2006 General Election Elections Yukon, 2006. Retrieved January 21, 2017
2. Copperbelt By-election Report Elections Yukon, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2017
3. Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 2002 General Election Elections Yukon, 2002. Retrieved January 21, 2017