Overview

• Premier Mike Pemberton asked Commissioner Adeline Webber to dissolve the 35th legislature, formally launching the campaign.
• Yukoners will elect 21 members for the first time, with 15 districts redrawn following a territorial commission’s recommendations.
• Liberals and the Yukon Party each hold eight seats, with the Liberal minority sustained by a confidence-and-supply agreement with three New Democrats.
• Parties are still completing candidate slates, with the NDP and Yukon Party each short one candidate and the Liberals six, and former Speaker Jeremy Harper is the only Liberal MLA seeking re-election.
• Early campaign themes stress housing, health care and affordability, with the NDP proposing a universal school nutrition program and the Yukon Party pledging to cut a planned 34% power-rate increase.