Copperbelt (electoral district)

Copperbelt
Yukon electoral district
Copperbelt in relation to other electoral districts in Whitehorse
Defunct territorial electoral district
Legislature	Yukon Legislative Assembly
First contested	1978
Last contested	2006

Copperbelt was an electoral district which returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. In 2009 it was divided into Copperbelt South and Copperbelt North.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Parliament	Years		Party
2002	November 2002-April 2004	Haakon Arntzen	Yukon Party
	April 2004-September 2005	Haakon Arntzen	Independent
	November 2005 – 2006	Arthur Mitchell	Yukon Liberal Party
2006	2006-2011	Arthur Mitchell	Yukon Liberal Party

Yukon general election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Haakon Arntzen	374	39.4%	–
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	312	32.9%
	NDP	Lillian Grubach-Hambrook	263	27.7%
Total			949	100.0%

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By-election: November 21, 2005 On the resignation of Haakon Arntzen, September, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	459	49.6%	+16.7%
	NDP	Maureen Stephens	285	30.8%	+3.1%
	Yukon Party	Cynthia Kearns	181	19.5%	-19.9%
Total			925	100.0%

Yukon general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	632	52.8%	+3.2%
	Yukon Party	Russ Hobbis	374	31.2%	+11.7%
	NDP	David Hedmann	191	16.0%	-14.8%
Total			1197	100.0%

Current Yukon territorial electoral districts

Rural	Klondike Kluane Lake Laberge Mayo-Tatchun Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes Pelly-Nisutlin Vuntut Gwitchin Watson Lake

Whitehorse	Copperbelt North Copperbelt South Mountainview Porter Creek Centre Porter Creek North Porter Creek South Riverdale North Riverdale South Takhini-Kopper King Whitehorse Centre Whitehorse West

Former	Copperbelt Dawson Faro McIntyre-Takhini Mount Lorne Southern Lakes Whitehorse Yukon Electoral District No. 1 Yukon Electoral District No. 2

See also: 2011 election List of elections Legislative Assembly

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