Liberal incumbent Larry Bagnell will once again be going to Ottawa to represent the Yukon, but this time he will face a Conservative minority government.

Taking an even greater number of votes than he did in June 2004, Bagnell finished Monday's election with 6,847 votes or 48.2 per cent of the ballots cast by 14,205 voters.

The numbers placed him 1,126 votes ahead of where he finished the 2004 campaign.

'I want to thank all Yukoners. I'm very deeply honoured I have been chosen again to be your MP with even a bigger lead than last time,' Bagnell told supporters at his election celebration at the Yukon Inn

'I think you should be very proud, that in these tough times, you stood up for Liberal values of equality, generosity, of fairness and of looking after those in need.'

There were 21,148 registered voters in the Yukon for this election and 67.2 per cent cast their ballots, up from 2004's 64.1 per cent turnout.

However, Bagnell didn't manage to win out in every polling station.

The Conservatives beat him in Destruction Bay, Champagne, Takhini, Johnson's Crossing and Watson Lake.

The NDP pulled ahead of the Liberals in Keno Hill, Pelly Crossing, tied with the Liberals in one Whitehorse polling station, and won Carmacks' advance ballots.

NDP candidate Pam Boyde just barely managed to land the second place spot in the vote, finishing only 25 votes ahead of Conservative candidate Sue Greetham.

At the end of the tight race, the count was 3,366 votes for Boyde and 3,341 votes for Greetham.

Boyde took 3,215 ballots in June 2004, meaning she only earned 151 more votes in this election. She was 3,481 votes behind Bagnell in this election.

'I guess it's not to be this time, but we got closer,' Boyde told the Star. 'Certainly, I'm disappointed. I thought I had it.'

Boyde received some criticism during the campaign for turning her attention to Bagnell's voting record in the House of Commons. The move caused the Liberal incumbent to accuse her of turning negative.

'I was putting the record on the table. I was just calling the shots,' Boyde said.

She made a brief stop into Bagnell's election function; frowning, she shook his hand, wished him congratulations and quickly left.

The NDP candidate, however, remains positive her party will play an important role in the next Parliament. The NDP took 29 seats in the final national tally.

'You can be sure the NDP will work their hardest to push the agenda ahead,' she said.

Boyde is currently undecided if she will again hold the NDP's torch a third time in the next federal election.

Though the Conservatives were the big winners in the election nationally, taking 124 seats and placing Stephen Harper in the position of prime minister of a minority government, the party didn't pull through in the Yukon.

Greetham made significant gains for the party that only earned 2,609 ballots in the 2004 election. But despite taking 23. 5 per cent of the popular vote in the territory, the party still placed third.

'I am quite pleased with the outcome in Canada and comfortable to say congratulations to Larry,' said Greetham, who has already decided she won't be running in the next election.

The pendulum is starting to swing in the opposite direction, and Yukoners and Canadians can look forward to some real, constructive change in the country, said Greetham.

Nationally, the Liberals only took 103 seats in the House of Commons. The Bloc Quebecois followed with 51.

Greetham added she's confident the results of the election will ensure Yukoners with a Conservative leaning are better heard in Ottawa, adding her party will work hard for the North.

'The voters are always right,' said Bagnell. 'I did everything I possibly could (for the Yukon). So it's so nice (voters) weren't side-tracked by some of the things talked about (negative campaigning during the election).'

Bagnell vowed to 'fight hard' for the Yukon in his new role in the opposition, but added, '(The Liberals) will fight and rise again.'

Philippe LeBlond also ran in the election as the Green Party candidate.

He was out of the territory, on a vacation in New Zealand, for all but the first week of the campaign. However, he put his name forward to provide Yukoners with the choice of voting Green, LeBlond said prior to his departure in December.

LeBlond garnered 559 ballots or 3.9 per cent of the popular vote.

In the 2004 election, he was the territory's first ever Green Party candidate and took in 571 ballots and 4.5 per cent of the vote.