Copperbelt (electoral district)

Copperbelt
Yukon electoral district
	Copperbelt in relation to other electoral districts in Whitehorse (c. 2006)
Defunct territorial electoral district
Legislature	Yukon Legislative Assembly
First contested	2002
Last contested	2006
Demographics
Electors (2006)	1,748
Census subdivision(s)	Copper Ridge, Granger, Hillcrest, Lobird, MacRae, Pineridge

LegislatureYukon Legislative Assembly

First contested2002

Last contested2006

Electors (2006)1,748

Copperbelt was an electoral district which returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It included the Whitehorse subdivisions of Hillcrest, Granger, Pineridge, MacRae, and part of Copper Ridge. It also included the Lobird mobile home park.

The riding was divided into the new ridings of Copperbelt South, Copperbelt North, Mountainview, and Takhini-Kopper King in 2009. The substantial amount of new housing development in the riding since its creation had led to a significant increase in population that had imbalanced the riding's size compared to others in the territory.

Copperbelt is the former seat of Yukon Liberal Party leader Arthur Mitchell, who was Yukon's Leader of the Official Opposition from 2005 to 2011.

Legislature	Years		Party
31th	2002–2004	Haakon Arntzen	Yukon Party
	2004–2005	Haakon Arntzen	Independent
	2005–2006	Arthur Mitchell	Yukon Liberal Party
32nd	2006–2011	Arthur Mitchell	Yukon Liberal Party

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	632	52.5%	+3.0%
	Yukon Party	Russ Hobbis	374	31.1%	+11.6%
	NDP	David Hedmann	191	15.9%	-14.8%
Total			1204	100.0%	–

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	459	49.5%	+16.9%
	NDP	Maureen Stephens	285	30.7%	+3.2%
	Yukon Party	Cynthia Kearns	181	19.5%	-19.6%
Total			927	100.0%	–

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Yukon Party	Haakon Arntzen	374	39.1%	–
	Liberal	Arthur Mitchell	312	32.6%	–
	NDP	Lillian Grubach-Hambrook	263	27.5%	–
Total			957	100.0%	–

v t e Yukon territorial electoral districts
Rural	Klondike Kluane Lake Laberge Marsh Lake-Mount Lorne-Golden Horn Mayo-Tatchun Southern Lakes Vuntut Gwitchin Watson Lake-Ross River-Faro
Whitehorse	Copperbelt North Copperbelt South Mountainview Porter Creek Centre Porter Creek North Porter Creek South Riverdale North Riverdale South Takhini Whistle Bend North Whistle Bend South Whitehorse Centre Whitehorse West
Defunct	Bonanza Campbell Carmacks-Kluane Copperbelt Dawson Faro Hootalinqua Mayo McIntyre-Takhini Mount Lorne North Dawson Ogilvie Pelly-Nisutlin Pelly River Ross River-Southern Lakes South Dawson Tatchun Whitehorse Whitehorse East Whitehorse North Whitehorse North Centre Whitehorse Porter Creek Whitehorse Porter Creek West Whitehorse Riverdale Whitehorse South Centre Yukon Electoral District No. 1 Yukon Electoral District No. 2
See also: 2025 election List of elections Legislative Assembly

Copperbelt (electoral district)

Election results

2006

2005 by-election

2002

See also

References

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