Yukon Legislative Assembly

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The Yukon Legislative Assembly is the legislative assembly for Yukon, Canada. It is located in Whitehorse.

Contents 1 History 2 Current members 3 Party standings 4 References 5 See also

[edit] History

From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon. Following the passage of the Yukon Elections Act in 1977, the Territorial Council was replaced by the current Legislative Assembly.

The Yukon Legislative Assembly is the only legislature in Canada's territories which is organized along political party lines. In Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, the legislative assemblies are instead elected on a non-partisan consensus government model.

[edit] Current members

	Member	Party	Electoral district
	Steve Cardiff	New Democratic Party	Mount Lorne
	Brad Cathers	Yukon Party	Lake Laberge
	John Edzerza	New Democratic Party	McIntyre-Takhini
	Darius Elias	Liberal	Vuntut Gwitchin
	Eric Fairclough	Liberal	Mayo-Tatchun
	Dennis Fentie (premier)	Yukon Party (leader)	Watson Lake
	Todd Hardy (third party leader)	New Democratic Party (leader)	Whitehorse Centre
	Glenn Hart	Yukon Party	Riverdale South
	Marian Horne	Yukon Party	Pelly-Nisutlin
	Don Inverarity	Liberal	Porter Creek South
	Jim Kenyon	Yukon Party	Porter Creek North
	Archie Lang	Yukon Party	Porter Creek Centre
	Gary McRobb	Liberal	Kluane
	Arthur Mitchell (official opposition leader)	Liberal (leader)	Copperbelt
	Steve Nordick (deputy speaker)	Yukon Party	Klondike
	Patrick Rouble	Yukon Party	Southern Lakes
	Ted Staffen (speaker)	Yukon Party	Riverdale North
	Elaine Taylor (deputy premier)	Yukon Party	Whitehorse West

[edit] Party standings

• ELECTION on Tuesday, October 10, 2006
• Ted Staffen of Yukon Party re-elected as Speaker (9-8)

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Fairclough

Inverarity

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HARDY

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Cathers

FENTIE

Taylor

Kenyon

Rouble

Staffen

Lang

Horne

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Hart

Nordick

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Seating plan of the 32nd Legislative Assembly

Party		Rural	Whitehorse	Total
	Yukon Party	5	5	10
	Liberal Party	3	2	5
	New Democratic Party	1	2	3
Total		9	9	18
Government majority		2

[edit] References

• The list from the official website

[edit] See also

• List of Yukon general elections

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