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The 2025 Yukon general election will be held on or before November 3, 2025, to elect members to the 36th Yukon Legislative Assembly. Under amendments to the territorial Elections Act passed in 2020, the first fixed election date following the 2021 Yukon general election is set as November 3, 2025. [ 1 ]
The 2021 Yukon general election was held on April 12, 2021, to return members of the 35th Yukon Legislative Assembly. [1] [3] The election resulted in a hung parliament where the incumbent governing Yukon Liberal Party and the opposition Yukon Party won 8 seats each, while the Yukon New Democratic Party held the remaining 3.
From 1898 to 1978, the legislative body in Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council. This body did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon. At the beginning it did not have law-making ability and was composed of appointed members or mixture of appointed and elected members.
Unique among Canada's three territories, the Yukon Legislative Assembly is the only territorial legislature which is organized along political party lines. In contrast, in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories , their legislative assemblies are elected on a non-partisan basis and operate on a consensus government model.
Elections Yukon is an independent agency that oversees elections and plebiscites in the Yukon [2] including: all general elections and by-elections for the 19 Members of the Yukon's Legislative Assembly, according to the Elections Act. [3] School board & school council elections and by-elections. [4] all plebiscites. [citation needed]
Ranj Pillai (born January 1974) is a Canadian politician, who has been, since January 14, the tenth premier of Yukon 2023 [2] and leader of the Yukon Liberal Party since January 9, 2023. [3] He represents the electoral district of Porter Creek South in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon , to which he was first elected in the 2016 election .
The Executive Council of Yukon (French: Conseil exécutif du Yukon), more commonly known as the Cabinet of Yukon (French: Cabinet du Yukon), is the cabinet of the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is chosen by the Premier from the elected members of the governing party in the Yukon Legislative Assembly .
Jeanie McLean, formerly known as Jeanie Dendys, is a Canadian politician, the current deputy premier of Yukon since 2023. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in the 2016 election. [1] She represents the electoral district of Mountainview as a member of the Yukon Liberal Party.