Yellowknife North

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Yellowknife North
Flag of the Northwest Territories.svg Northwest Territories electoral district
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Boundaries of Yellowknife North
Territorial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
MLA
 
 
 
Shauna Morgan
First contested 1975
Last contested 2023
Demographics
Census subdivision(s) Yellowknife

Yellowknife North is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is one of seven districts that represent Yellowknife, the territorial capital. It encompasses Old Town, Niven Heights, some of downtown, and a large rural hinterland centred on the Ingraham Trail.

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The district previously existed from 1975 to 1999, but was dissolved at the 1999 election.

The riding was recreated for the 2015 election, from part of the former district of Weledeh. [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

 Name ElectedLeft Office
  Dave Nickerson 19751979
  George Braden 19751983
  Michael Ballantyne 19831995
  Roy Erasmus 19951999
 dissolved19992015
  Cory Vanthuyne 20152019
  Rylund Johnson 20192023
  Shauna Morgan 2023present

Election results

2023 election

2023 Northwest Territories general election
CandidateVotes%
Shauna Morgan 73464.50
Bruce Valpy35030.76
Jon Howe544.75
Total votes1138

2019 election

2019 Northwest Territories general election
CandidateVotes
Rylund Johnson 501
Cory Vanthuyne496
Jan Vallillee380

2015 election

2015 Northwest Territories general election
CandidateVotes%
Cory Vanthuyne 39235.8
Dan Wong37634.3
Ben Nind18917.2
Edwin Castillo12711.6
Sean Erasmus121.1
Total valid ballots / Turnout1,09645%

1979 election

1979 Northwest Territories general election
CandidateVotes%
George Braden 30643.59%
Bob Olexin22331.77%
Jack Adderley7610.82%
Margaret Cook486.84%
N.E.A. Ted Mehler466.55%
Berniece Lambert30.43%
Total valid ballots / Turnout70271.06%
Rejected ballots5
Source(s)
"REPORT OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER ON THE GENERAL ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE COUNCIL OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES 1979" (PDF). Elections NWT. January 1980. Retrieved 1 April 2025.

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