Yukon Progressive Conservative Party

Yukon Progressive Conservative Party
Parti progressiste-conservateur du Yukon
Former territorial party
Founded 1978 (1978)
Dissolved 1991 (1991)
Succeeded by Yukon Party
Ideology Conservatism
Colours Blue

The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (in French: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Yukon) was a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. It is now known as the Yukon Party.

History

The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party was founded in April 1978. Long time Yukon legislator Hilda Watson was elected the party's first leader defeating Yukon MP Erik Nielsen by one vote.[1] Watson had been a member of the territorial Legislative Council since 1970, and became the first woman in Canadian history to lead a political party into a general election. However, she was unable to win a seat in the 1978 election, and consequently resigned. Chris Pearson became leader of the party as well as the government.

The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the 1985 election by the Yukon New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Tony Penikett. With Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative federal government's increasing unpopularity, the Yukon Progressive Conservatives decided to sever their relations with the federal Conservatives, and renamed themselves the "Yukon Party" prior to the 1992 election.

Election results

Election Leader % Seats +/– Position Government
1978 Hilda Watson 37.1
11 / 16
 Increase 11 Increase 1st Majority
1982 Chris Pearson 46.9
10 / 16
 Decrease 1 Steady 1st Majority
1985 Willard Phelps 46.9
6 / 16
 Decrease 4 Decrease 2nd Opposition
1989 Willard Phelps 46.9
7 / 16
 Increase 1 Steady 2nd Opposition

Leaders

References

  1. ↑ http://yukonparty.ca/?page_id=89

See also

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