Liberal’s victory confirmed
Election results for the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin stand after votes were recounted Monday evening, Elections Yukon confirmed this morning.
Election results for the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin stand after votes were recounted Monday evening, Elections Yukon confirmed this morning.
Pauline Frost of the Yukon Liberal Party won the riding, which includes Old Crow, with 77 votes in the Nov. 7 election.
Darius Elias, the incumbent MLA and Yukon Party candidate, took 70 votes.
The NDP’s Skeeter Wright drew three votes.
The recount, done in Yukon Supreme Court, took about two hours.
A recount is required if the top candidate wins by 10 or fewer votes, said Dave Wilkie, the Yukon’s assistant chief elections officer.
There will also be a recount in Mountainview, where Liberal candidate Jeanie Dendys won by six votes over runner-up Shaunagh Stikeman of the NDP.
Dendys earned 439 votes, Stikeman took 433 and Premier Darrell Pasloski got 399 votes.
The Mountainview recount will begin at 10 a.m. Friday.
No swearing-in date for the new government has been announced.
Comments (4)
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The boss on Nov 20, 2016 at 3:24 am
The only thing you people see is the bad in people. Kassi should be the chief of that town..Not everyone grows up in a perfect setting like people in Whitehorse but Darius has done a lot for his community. Let's see if Frost can produce. Small minded people still drive home half drunk everyday so give your head a shake and thank the cop that knows you before you judge your next member of parliament. Not everyone wants to live in the Sally Anne palace you guys are building. Good luk libs
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Barry Smith on Nov 16, 2016 at 10:46 am
YEEHAW ! It's great to see integritry back in the Vuntut Gwitchin riding.
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Josey Wales on Nov 16, 2016 at 9:43 am
OK great we have a confirm.
So should all whom lost march in the streets calling down those whom won? Should we riot busting up the hood like petulant lil' spoiled coddled brats? No, no folk we should not, those are THE tactics of the left.
Hence the issues we have today, 4 decades of being enabled to reside in some fantasy land breeds that behaviour.
As we see in many urban plantations down in the USofEh.
I do think this crap must cease, division, political correctness, social engineering and of course...funding the CBC.
Congrats on your win, running in the rain is not as hard as keeping the folks happy you now represent.
Good luck with that!
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How much longer? on Nov 15, 2016 at 7:55 pm
How much longer do we have to keep paying the Yukon Party and their cronies on top of their doubled severance? Two weeks to recount a thousand ballots?
Their government is still working and still causing damage on a daily basis. Let's get this change going so the new Premier and Ministers can put a halt to what is happening out there.