Yukon Liberal Party

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Yukon Liberal Party
Active Territorial Party
Founded	1898
Leader	Arthur Mitchell
President	Ted Dean
Headquarters	36-200 Lobird Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5V3
Political ideology	Liberalism
International alignment	None
Colours	Red
Website	http://www.ylp.ca/

The Yukon Liberal Party is a political party in the Yukon Territory in Canada. After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier Pat Duncan. The government was plagued with defections, however, and was reduced to minority government status. Duncan called a snap election for November 2002 in the hope of regaining her government's majority. The party was almost completely wiped out, however, by the Yukon Party. Duncan won the Liberals' sole seat in the Yukon Party's landslide.

As of June 4, 2005 Arthur Mitchell is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party.

[edit] See also

• List of political parties in Canada

Provincial and territorial Liberal parties (edit):
Manitoba - New Brunswick - Newfoundland and Labrador - Nova Scotia - Prince Edward Island - Saskatchewan - Yukon
Allied, autonomous Liberal parties: Alberta - Ontario
• The Northwest Territories Liberal Party dissolved in 1905 when Alberta and Saskatchewan were formed • The Liberal parties in British Columbia and Quebec are no longer formally affiliated with the federal Liberal Party.