It’s likely the applications to the Yukon Supreme Court for two recounts of election results will go forward Thursday, says the communication’s officer for Elections Yukon.

Liberal premier-designate Sandy Silver and his team unseated Premier Darrell Pasloski and the governing Yukon Party in Monday’s territorial election.

The Liberals captured 11 of the 19 seats, compared to six for the Yukon Party and two for the NDP.

Dave Wilkie of Elections Yukon explained this morning the returning officers for each of the 19 ridings will conduct their standard review of the counts tomorrow morning to confirm numbers written on the envelopes containing the ballots all add up.

Once confirmation has been completed, there will be an application to the court to recount the ballots of any ridings where the result was determined by 10 or fewer votes, he explained.

Upon receipt of the application, the judge will have four regular working days to schedule the recount, Dan Cable, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, explained this morning.

“The court services will assist the judge in booking the recount as soon as possible,” he said.

Recounts are required in the ridings of Mountainview and Vuntut Gwitchin.

In Mountainview, Pasloski lost his seat after placing third behind Liberal MLA-designate Jeanie Dendys and second-placer Shaunagh Stikeman, the NDP candidate .

Dendys finished with 439 votes or 34.5 per cent of the ballots cast.

Stikeman finished six votes behind with 34.1 per cent of the popular vote. Pasloski polled 399 votes, 40 back of Dendys.

In Vuntut Gwitchin, Yukon Party MLA Darius Elias was unseated by Liberal MLA-designate Pauline Frost, with Frost recording 77 votes, or 51.3 per cent of the 150 ballots cast. Elias finished with 70 votes, or 46.7 per cent.

NDP candidate Skeeter Wright, a Whitehorse resident with no roots in the community of Old Crow, finished with three votes.

Wilkie said under the Elections Act, each candidate has the right to be present for the recount, along with three representatives and their lawyer.

The act says the judge will conduct the recount.

The last recount occurred in the 2011 territorial election when NDP MLA Lois Moorcroft edged out Yukon Party candidate Valerie Boxall by three votes, or 397 to 394. The count stood.

If this recount were to take one seat away from the Liberals, it would still give that party a majority government and control of the legislature even with the appointment of the Speaker.

The Speaker would vote if there was ever a tie 9-9 vote in the house.

If the recount took away two seats from the Grits, the party would lose its majority but would be elevated to the governing party. That’s because it has the most seats, unless there was an unlikely coalition formed between the right-leaning Yukon Party and left-leaning NDP.

The last minority government was formed in 1992, when the late John Ostashek and his Yukon Party removed then-NDP premier Tony Penikett from office.

The Yukon Party finished with seven seats, compared to six for the NDP, one for the Liberals and three independents.

The independents included former Yukon Conservative party leader Willard Phelps and former Conservative Party MLAs Alan Nordling and the late Bea Firth, who left the party disgruntled.

Nordling and Firth ran under their own Independent Alliance banner.

Phelps served briefly as government leader with the resignation by the late Chris Pearson before being swept from office in 1985 by Penikett’s minority government.

The Yukon Conservatives evolved into the Yukon Party before the 1992 election.

Phelps agreed to prop up Ostashek’s minority position and was appointed to cabinet.

And Nordling accepted Ostashek’s appointment as Speaker, giving the Yukon Party a ruling majority in the legislature.

In the 1985 election, Penikett and his New Democrats were first elected to office by winning eight seats compared to six for the Conservatives and two for the Liberals.

The two former Liberal MLAs, the late Roger Coles and Jim McLachlan, agreed to support Penikett’s minority government – which transformed to a majority in the 1989 election.