Yellowknife North
Territorial electoral district in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Yellowknife North is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is one of seven districts that represent Yellowknife, the territorial capital. It encompasses Old Town, Niven Heights, some of downtown, and a large rural hinterland centred on the Ingraham Trail.
 Northwest Territories electoral district | |||
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Boundaries of Yellowknife North | |||
| Territorial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories | ||
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| First contested | 1975 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Census subdivision | Yellowknife | ||
The district previously existed from 1975 to 1999, but was dissolved at the 1999 election.
The riding was recreated for the 2015 election, from part of the former district of Weledeh.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
| Name | Elected | Left Office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Nickerson | 1975 | 1979 | |
| George Braden | 1975 | 1983 | |
| Michael Ballantyne | 1983 | 1995 | |
| Roy Erasmus | 1995 | 1999 | |
| dissolved | 1999 | 2015 | |
| Cory Vanthuyne | 2015 | 2019 | |
| Rylund Johnson | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Shauna Morgan | 2023 | present |
Election results
2023 election
| 2023 Northwest Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| Shauna Morgan | 734 | 64.50 | ||||||
| Bruce Valpy | 350 | 30.76 | ||||||
| Jon Howe | 54 | 4.75 | ||||||
| Total votes | 1138 | |||||||
2019 election
| 2019 Northwest Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | |||||||
| Rylund Johnson | 501 | |||||||
| Cory Vanthuyne | 496 | |||||||
| Jan Vallillee | 380 | |||||||
2015 election
| 2015 Northwest Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| Cory Vanthuyne | 392 | 35.8 | ||||||
| Dan Wong | 376 | 34.3 | ||||||
| Ben Nind | 189 | 17.2 | ||||||
| Edwin Castillo | 127 | 11.6 | ||||||
| Sean Erasmus | 12 | 1.1 | ||||||
| Total valid ballots / Turnout | 1,096 | 45% | ||||||
1979 election
| 1979 Northwest Territories general election | ||||||||
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| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| George Braden | 306 | 43.59% | ||||||
| Bob Olexin | 223 | 31.77% | ||||||
| Jack Adderley | 76 | 10.82% | ||||||
| Margaret Cook | 48 | 6.84% | ||||||
| N.E.A. Ted Mehler | 46 | 6.55% | ||||||
| Berniece Lambert | 3 | 0.43% | ||||||
| Total valid ballots / Turnout | 702 | 71.06% | ||||||
| Rejected ballots | 5 | |||||||
Source(s)
"REPORT OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER ON THE GENERAL ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE COUNCIL OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES 1979" (PDF). Elections NWT. January 1980. Retrieved 1 April 2025. | ||||||||
