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

Election results

2002 general election

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%

2005 by-election

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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%

2006 general election

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%