Election results will stand
Following the recount of ballots in two of Yukon's territorial election ridings there will be no change in the final outcome of the Oct. 10 vote, says Jo-Ann Waugh, the assistant chief electoral officer.
Following the recount of ballots in two of Yukon's territorial election ridings there will be no change in the final outcome of the Oct. 10 vote, says Jo-Ann Waugh, the assistant chief electoral officer.
'There's no changes to the numbers that we've determined,' Waugh said of Friday's recount.
Both McIntyre-Takhini and Porter Creek South had results so close they were forced to go to recount.
Whenever the winning margin is 10 or fewer votes a recount is mandatory.
Liberal Don Inverarity won the riding of Porter Creek South over Yukon Party candidate Dean Hassard by a margin of six votes.
The recount found the results to be true, leaving the riding with the votes split with 304 votes for Inverarity with 304, 298 for Hassard and 97 for NDP candidate Samson Hartland
In McIntyre-Takhini, the recount found the initial results had a two vote error.
The change was initially reported on Wednesday.
It showed that there had been an error in the count of the number of people who had voted - two less than the original count. But, it did not affect the distribution of the ballots nor the outcome in the riding, which John Edzerza won.
Edzerza, a former Yukon Party cabinet minister, ran under the NDP banner in the election and won 334 votes.
The initial count had shown Edzerza at having 336 votes. The results of the other two candidates remained the same, leaving Liberal Ed Schultz at 328 votes and Yukon Party candidate Vicki Durrant with 201.
The official results of the territorial election were released this morning at 10 a.m.
The release occurred at the same time Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie and his newly reelected caucus entered their first caucus meeting since the election.
The Yukon Party won a majority government, taking 10 seats in the 18-seat legislative assembly. The Liberals took five seats and the NDP took three.
It is the first time a party has been reelected to serve a second mandate since 1989.
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