Yukon general election, 1903

The 1903 Yukon general election was held on January 13, 1903.^[1] The council was expanded to elect five of the ten members to the Yukon Territorial Council. The election was fought along party lines even though the council was limited in its powers and played an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner.

Distribution

The Yukon was divided up into three electoral districts by the Yukon Territorial Council. The two rural districts were named Districts No. 1 and No 2. and each elected two members while Whitehorse became its own electoral district.

After the election the validity of the election was called into question because the Yukon council might have overstepped its authority dividing up the Yukon into electoral districts.

Results

Members Elected

District	Member elected	Affiliation
District No. 1	Joseph Clarke
District No. 1	Alfred Thompson
District No. 2	John Pringle
District No. 2	Max Landreville
Whitehorse	Robert Lowe	Government

References

↑ Steven Smyth, The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999). Clairedge Press, 1999.

Elections in Yukon

General elections	1900 1903 1905 1907 1909 1912 1915 1917 1920 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1940 1944 1947 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1974 1978 1982 1985 1989 1992 1996 2000 2002 2006 2011 next

See also: List of Yukon by-elections

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