Whitehorse West

Yukon electoral district

Whitehorse West in relation to other electoral districts in Whitehorse

Territorial electoral district

Legislature

Yukon Legislative Assembly

MLA

Richard Mostyn
Liberal

First contested

1978

Last contested

2016

Whitehorse West is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was the only seat won by the Yukon New Democratic Party in the 1978 territorial election.

The current MLA is Elaine Taylor, who is the deputy Premier, minister responsible for Public Service Commission, minister of Tourism and Culture, minister of Justice, minister of Education and minister responsible for Women's Directorate.

MLAs

Parliament	Years		Party
1978	1978–1982	Tony Penikett	New Democratic
1982	1982–1985
1985	1985–1989
1989	1989–1992
1992	1992–1995
	1995–1996		Vacant
	1996	David Sloan	New Democratic
1996	1996–2000	David Sloan	New Democratic
2000	2000–2002	Dennis Schneider	Liberal
2002	2002–2006	Elaine Taylor	Yukon Party
2006	2006–2011
2011	2011–2016
2016	2016–present	Richard Mostyn	Liberal

Electoral results

1992 general election

Yukon general election, 1992
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	NDP	Tony Penikett	304	45.9
	Yukon Party	Bob Bruneau	232	35.0	–
	Independent	Bernd Schmidt	12	1.8
	Liberal	Shaun Patrick Dennehy	114	17.2
Total			662	99.9

1996 by-election

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By-election: 1996 On the resignation of Tony Penikett, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	NDP	David Sloan	433	42.8
	Liberal	Larry Bagnell	326	32.2
	Yukon Party	Shelda Hutton	253	25.0	–
Total			1012	100.0

1996 general election

Yukon general election, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	NDP	David Sloan	486	40.8
	Liberal	Larry Bagnell	383	32.1
	Yukon Party	Ken McKinnon	323	27.1	–
Total			1192	100.0

2000 general election

Yukon general election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Dennis Schneider	621	40.7
	NDP	David Sloan	480	31.5
	Yukon Party	Elaine Taylor	425	27.8	–
Total			1526	100.0

2002 general election

Yukon general election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Elaine Taylor	398	47.7	–
	Liberal	Dennis Schneider	319	38.3
	NDP	Rachel Grantham	117	14.0
Total			834	100.0

2006 general election

Yukon general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Elaine Taylor	511	53.4	–
	Liberal	Mike Walton	371	38.77
	NDP	Rhoda Merkel	75	7.84
Total			957	100.0

2011 general election

Yukon general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Elaine Taylor	422	–	–
	Liberal	Cully Robinson	209
	NDP	Louis Gagnon	94
Total			725

Current Yukon territorial electoral districts

Rural	Klondike Kluane Lake Laberge Mayo-Tatchun Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes Pelly-Nisutlin Vuntut Gwitchin Watson Lake

Whitehorse	Copperbelt North Copperbelt South Mountainview Porter Creek Centre Porter Creek North Porter Creek South Riverdale North Riverdale South Takhini-Kopper King Whitehorse Centre Whitehorse West

Former	Copperbelt Dawson Faro McIntyre-Takhini Mount Lorne Southern Lakes Whitehorse Yukon Electoral District No. 1 Yukon Electoral District No. 2

See also: 2011 election List of elections Legislative Assembly

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