Whitehorse South Centre

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Whitehorse South Centre
Flag of Yukon.svg Yukon electoral district
Defunct territorial electoral district
Legislature Yukon Legislative Assembly
First contested 1974
Last contested 1989
Demographics
Census subdivisions Whitehorse

Whitehorse South Centre was a territorial electoral district in Yukon. Serving the city of Whitehorse, the district elected one member to the Yukon Territorial Council from 1974 to 1978, and to the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1992.

Electoral district (Canada) federal or provincial electoral district in Canada

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a "constituency" or a "riding", is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a circonscription, but frequently called a comté (county).

Yukon Territory of Canada

Yukon is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories. It has the smallest population of any province or territory in Canada, with 35,874 people, although it has the largest city in any of the three territories. Whitehorse is the territorial capital and Yukon's only city.

Whitehorse, Yukon Territorial capital city in Yukon, Canada

Whitehorse is the capital and only city of Yukon, and the largest city in northern Canada. It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in Alaska. The city was named after the White Horse Rapids for their resemblance to the mane of a white horse, near Miles Canyon, before the river was dammed.

Members

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
27th 1974-1978   Jack Hibberd Independent
28th 1978-1981   Progressive Conservative
1981-1982   Roger Kimmerly New Democratic Party
29th 1982-1985
30th 1985-1989
31st 1989-1992   Joyce Hayden New Democratic Party

Election results

1974 Yukon general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  Independent Jack Hibberd 267
  Independent Tony Penikett 143
  Independent Ron Veale 130
Total
1978 Yukon general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  Progressive Conservative Jack Hibberd 245
  Liberal Bert Law197
  NDP Ken Krocker122
Total
By-election, October 13, 1981
Resignation of Jack Hibberd
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  NDP Roger Kimmerly 203
  Progressive Conservative Neil Hayes127
  Liberal Mimi Stehelin116
  Independent Chuck Rear97
Total
1982 Yukon general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  NDP Roger Kimmerly 328
  Progressive Conservative Chuck Rear320
  Liberal Carol Christian108
Total
1985 Yukon general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  NDP Roger Kimmerly 346
  Progressive Conservative Ron Granger303
  Liberal Arthur Giovinazzo85
Total
1989 Yukon general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  NDP Joyce Hayden 350
  Progressive Conservative Gerry Thick228
  Liberal Phil Wheelton163
Total

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