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Defunct territorial electoral district | |
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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.
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 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 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.
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Jack Hibberd | 267 | |||
Independent | Tony Penikett | 143 | |||
Independent | Ron Veale | 130 | |||
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive Conservative | Jack Hibberd | 245 | |||
Liberal | Bert Law | 197 | |||
NDP | Ken Krocker | 122 | |||
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Roger Kimmerly | 203 | |||
Progressive Conservative | Neil Hayes | 127 | |||
Liberal | Mimi Stehelin | 116 | |||
Independent | Chuck Rear | 97 | |||
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Roger Kimmerly | 328 | |||
Progressive Conservative | Chuck Rear | 320 | |||
Liberal | Carol Christian | 108 | |||
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Roger Kimmerly | 346 | |||
Progressive Conservative | Ron Granger | 303 | |||
Liberal | Arthur Giovinazzo | 85 | |||
Total |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Joyce Hayden | 350 | |||
Progressive Conservative | Gerry Thick | 228 | |||
Liberal | Phil Wheelton | 163 | |||
Total |
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