39th Yukon general election

39th Yukon general election
Yukon
39th

All 19 seats to the Legislative Assembly
10 seats needed for a majority

 
YP
Leader Sandy Silver Stacey Hassard Elizabeth Hanson
Party Liberal Yukon Party New Democratic
Leader since August 17, 2012 December 3, 2016 (interim) September 26, 2009
Leader's seat Klondike Pelly-Nisutlin Whitehorse Centre
Last election 11 seats, 39.4% 6 seats, 33.4% 2 seats, 26.2%
Current seats 11 6 2

Incumbent Premier

Sandy Silver
Liberal


The 39th Yukon general election will return members to the 35th Yukon Legislative Assembly. There is no fixed election date law in Yukon, so the maximum length that a legislature may sit is determined by Section 4 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: "no legislative assembly shall continue for longer than five years from the date fixed for the return of the writs at a general election of its members".[1] The writs for the previous general election were returned November 14, 2016,[2] making an election probable for 2021.

References

  1. James R. Robertson; Sebastian Spano (2008-09-29). "Electoral Rights: Charter of Rights and Freedoms". Library of Parliament - Parliamentary Information and Research Service. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  2. "Blues" (PDF). Yukon Legislative Assembly. January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017.


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