1978 Yukon general election

Canadian territorial election September 2023 1978 Yukon general election Yukon parliamentary no no no 1974 Yukon general election 1974 23rd Yukon Territorial Council 1982 Yukon general election members 1982 16 seats of the Yukon Legislative Assembly 9 November 20, 1978 70.43%Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 1978 General Election Elections Yukon, 1978. Retrieved March 26, 2021 ( 6.03pp) YT PC nohash Hilda Watson 1978 YT PC name Kluane (lost re-election) pre-creation 11 11 2,869 37.10% Lib YT Liberal nohash Iain MacKay 1978 YT Liberal name Ran in Whitehorse Riverdale South (won) pre-creation 2 2 2,201 28.46% NDP YT NDP nohash Fred Berger 1978 YT NDP name Klondike (lost re-election) pre-creation 1 1 1,568 20.27% Yukon_Territorial_Election_1978_-_Results_by_Riding.svg 360px Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Riding names are listed at the bottom. Premier Premier after election None (position established) Chris Pearson YT PC nameThe 1978 Yukon general election was held on November 20, 1978, was the first conventional legislative election in the history of Canada's Yukon Territory. Prior elections were held to elect representatives to the Yukon Territorial Council, a non-partisan body that acted in an advisory role to the Commissioner of the Yukon. Following the passage of the Yukon Elections Act in 1977, the 1978 election was the first time that voters in the Yukon elected representatives to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in an election organized along political party lines. Hilda Watson, the first woman ever to lead a political party into an election in Canada, was the leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Although the party won the election, Watson herself was defeated in Kluane by Liberal candidate Alice McGuire, and thus did not become government leader. The position of government leader instead went to Chris Pearson. New Democratic leader Fred Berger was also defeated in his own riding. He remained leader of the party until 1981, when he was succeeded by the party's sole elected MLA, Tony Penikett. Under Penikett's leadership, an MLA who had been elected as an independent in 1978 joined the NDP, and the party won a by-election. With its caucus increased to three members, the NDP had thus supplanted the Liberals as the official opposition by the time of the 1982 election. Results by Party Summary of the 1978 Legislative Assembly of Yukon election resultsReport of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 1978 General Election Elections Yukon, 1978. Retrieved March 26, 2021 |- style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party leader !rowspan="2"|Candidates ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Seats !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote |- style="background:#ccc;" | style="text-align:center;"|1974 | style="text-align:center;font-size: 80%;"|Dissol. | style="text-align:center;"|1978 | style="text-align:center;"|Change | style="text-align:center;"|# | style="text-align:center;"|% | style="text-align:center;"|Change YT PC row-name |align=left|Hilda Watson |align="right"|15 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|11 |align="right"|+11 |align="right"|2,869 |align="right"|37.10% |align="right"|N/A YT Liberal row-name |align=left|Iain MacKay |align="right"|14 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|2 |align="right"|+2 |align="right"|2,201 |align="right"|28.46% |align="right"|N/A YT Independent row | colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Independent |align="right"|9 |align="right"|12 |align="right"|12 |align="right"|2 |align="right"|-10 |align="right"|1,096 |align="right"|14.17% |align="right"|N/A YT NDP row-name |align=left|Fred Berger |align="right"|14 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|+1 |align="right"|1,568 |align="right"|20.27% |align="right"|N/A |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total | style="text-align:right;"|52 | style="text-align:right;"|12 | style="text-align:right;"|12 | style="text-align:right;"|16 | style="text-align:right;"|+4 | style="text-align:right;"|7,734 | style="text-align:right;"|100.00% | style="text-align:right;"| |} Popular vote #ddd 650px 400px Progressive Conservative YT PC 37.10 Liberal YT Liberal 28.46 New Democratic YT NDP 20.27 Independent YT Independent 14.17Seats summary #ddd 650px 400px Progressive Conservative YT PC 68.75 Liberal YT Liberal 12.50 Independent YT Independent 12.50 New Democratic YT NDP 6.25 Incumbents not Running for Reelection The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1978 election: Independent Flo Whyard (Whitehorse West) Willard Phelps (Whitehorse Riverdale) Results by Riding Bold indicates party leaders † - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA YT PC Liberal NDP Independent |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Campbell | |Don McIntosh61 | |Blake Stirling Macdonald120 | |Margaret Thomson65 |YT Independent background| |Robert Fleming184 |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Faro | | | | | |Stuart McCall231 |YT Independent background| |Maurice Byblow361 |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Hootalinqua |YT PC background| |Al Falle209 | |Mike Laforet83 | |Max Fraser159 | |Mack Henry44 |YT Independent background| |Robert Fleming |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Klondike |YT PC background| |Meg McCall152 | | | |Fred Berger130 | |Eleanor Millard114 |YT Independent background| |Fred Berger |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Kluane | |Hilda Watson150 |YT Liberal background| |Alice McGuire188 | | | |John Livesey49 |YT Independent background| |Hilda Watson |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Mayo |YT PC background| |Swede Hanson95 | |Gordon McIntyre84 | |Alan McDiarmid82 | |David Harwood85 |YT Independent background| |Gordon McIntyre |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Old Crow |YT PC background| |Grafton Njootli62 | |Edith Tizya29 | |Robert Bruce19 | | |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Tatchun |YT PC background| |Howard Tracey109 | |Hugh Netzel71 | |Jerry Roberts83 | | |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Watson Lake |YT PC background| |Don Taylor226 | |Grant Taylor188 | | | | |YT Independent background| |Don Taylor |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse North Centre |YT PC background| |Geoff Lattin153 | |Dermot Flynn83 | |Doug Stephenson131 | |Ken McKinnon141 |YT Independent background| |Ken McKinnon |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Porter Creek East |YT PC background| |Dan Lang322 | |Bill Webber202 | |Paul Warner84 | | |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Porter Creek West |YT PC background| |Doug Graham188 | |Clive Tanner142 | |Kathy Horton60 | | |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Riverdale North |YT PC background| |Chris Pearson358 | |Richard Rotondo194 | |Dave Dornian59 | | |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse Riverdale South | |Margaret Heath354 |YT Liberal background| |Iain MacKay420 | |Jim McCullough113 | | |YT Other background| |New District |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse South Centre |YT PC background| |Jack Hibberd245 | |Bert Law197 | |Ken Krocker122 | | |YT Independent background| |Jack Hibberd |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"|Whitehorse West | |Anthony Fekete185 | |John Watt200 |YT NDP background| |Tony Penikett230 | |Al Omotani81Guy Julien37 |YT Independent background| |Flo Whyard† |} Aftermath After the election, four of the elected members in the Progressive Conservative Party, including Chris Pearson, were added to the Executive Committee headed by Commissioner Art Pearson. In October 1979, at the instruction of Jake Epp, Federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the Commissioner withdrew from direct government administration; Chris Pearson became Government Leader (equal to Premier), added a fifth member of the PC Party caucus, and formed the Executive Council of Yukon, thus beginning responsible government with an elected head of government in The Yukon. Art Pearson would later resign as Commissioner after pleading guilty to charges related to improper mining claim transfers and was replaced with Frank Fingland.Commissioners of the Yukon, 1948-2018 Commissioners of the Yukon, 1948-2018. Retrieved March 26, 2021 References 1978 Category:1978 elections in Canada Election Category:November 1978 in Canada