Copperbelt (electoral district)

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Copperbelt
Flag of Yukon.svg Yukon electoral district
Copperbelt.jpg
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.

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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

LegislatureYearsMemberParty
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]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Liberal Arthur Mitchell 63252.5%+3.0%
Yukon Party Russ Hobbis37431.1%+11.6%
  NDP David Hedmann19115.9%-14.8%
Total1204100.0%

2005 by-election

By-election: November 21, 2005 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Liberal Arthur Mitchell 45949.5%+16.9%
  NDP Maureen Stephens28530.7%+3.2%
Yukon Party Cynthia Kearns18119.5%-19.6%
Total927100.0%

2002

2002 Yukon general election [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party Haakon Arntzen 37439.1%
  Liberal Arthur Mitchell 31232.6%
  NDP Lillian Grubach-Hambrook26327.5%
Total957100.0%

See also

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