List of mayors of Whitehorse

Mayor of Whitehorse
Incumbent
Laura Cabott
since 2021
Term length3 years
Formation1950
First holderGordon Armstrong

This is a list of mayors of Whitehorse, the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon. Whitehorse has had an elected mayor and council since its incorporation as a city in 1950; prior to that, Whitehorse existed as an unincorporated settlement with no local municipal government.

The mayor presides over Whitehorse City Council.

List of mayors of Whitehorse

No. Name In office Ref.
1 Gordon Armstrong 1950 1958
2 Gordon Cameron 1958 1960
3 Vic Wylie 1960 1962
4 Ed Jacobs 1962 1966
5 Howard Firth 1966 1968
6 Bert Wybrew 1968 1973 [1][2]
7 Paul Lucier 1974 1976
8 Ione Christensen 1976 1978
Art Deer (interim) 1978 1979
9 Don Branigan 1979 1979
10 Flo Whyard 1979 1984
Don Branigan 1984 1991
11 Bill Weigand 1991 1994
12 Kathy Watson 1994 2000
13 Ernie Bourassa 2000 2006
14 Bev Buckway 2006 2012
15 Dan Curtis 2012 2021 [3]
16 Laura Cabott 2021 present

Notes

  • Governance of the city was temporarily transferred to a taxpayer advisory committee led by Joseph Oliver for part of 1973, after five of the city's six councillors resigned on July 9, 1973 in protest against a jurisdictional dispute with the Yukon Territorial Council,[1] leaving the council without a quorum to conduct city business; Wybrew was also dismissed as mayor during this committee governance period. Following a by-election on September 20, 1973, Wybrew returned to office and served until December.[2]

Election results

2021

Mayoral Candidate Vote[4] %
Laura Cabott 2,897 43.00
Patti Balsillie 1,942 28.83
Samson Hartland 1,898 28.17

2018

Mayoral Candidate[5] Vote %
Dan Curtis 2,933 44.02
Rick Karp 1,908 28.64
Colin Laforme 1,511 22.68
Wilf Carter 163 2.45
Kelly Suits 148 2.22

2015

Mayoral Candidate[6] Vote %
Dan Curtis 4,640 78.48
Wilf Carter 835 14.12
Mandeep Sidhu 437 7.39

References

  1. ^ a b "Five out of six Whitehorse aldermen resign over harassment, court battle with Yukon". The Globe and Mail, July 11, 1973.
  2. ^ a b Yukon History: 1973. Hougen Group of Companies.
  3. ^ "Mayor Dan Curtis | Whitehorse, YT". www.whitehorse.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  4. ^ "City of Whitehorse". City of Whitehorse. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  5. ^ "Election 2018 | Whitehorse, YT". www.whitehorse.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  6. ^ "Whitehorse Daily Star: Incumbent steamrolls over his adversaries". Whitehorse Daily Star. Retrieved 2020-06-25.

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