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MLA
  
Sandy Silver Liberal

First contested
  
1917

Electors (2016)
  
1,329

District created
  
1905

Last contested
  
2016

Klondike (electoral district)

Legislature
  
Yukon Legislative Assembly

Census divisions
  
Dawson City, Eagle Plains, Moosehide Creek 2, Unorganized Yukon

Klondike is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. One of the Yukon's eight rural ridings, it is also the oldest riding in the Yukon, first established in 1905. The riding includes Dawson City and its environs, as well as Eagle Plains.

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Klondike was the only seat won by the Yukon Party in the 2000 territorial election and the only seat held by the Liberals prior to the 2016 territorial election.

The current MLA for Klondike is Sandy Silver, Premier of the Yukon and Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. He was first elected on October 11, 2011, and re-elected on November 7, 2016.

1992 general election

  • The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party re-branded itself the Yukon Party before the 1992 election.

    • 1978 general election

  • Partisan politics introduced into the territory.

    • 1917 general election

    Top two candidates declared elected.

    References

    Klondike (electoral district) Wikipedia
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