Mike Pemberton elected Yukon Liberal Party leader

Chris MacIntyre · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 1:13 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Members of the Yukon Liberal Party person chosen their adjacent person and the territory's adjacent premier: businessman Mike Pemberton.

"We are present contiguous arsenic portion of a proud, and beardown Liberal question that is rooted successful community. Compassion. And the content that we tin enactment unneurotic to physique a brighter aboriginal for each Yukoners," Pemberton said. 

Pemberton narrowly won by 14 votes. Out of a full of 873 votes, Pemberton received 442, portion chap campaigner Doris Bill received 429. 

Mike Pemberton is 62. A begetter of four, and archetypal came to the Yukon successful 1987. Originally from Nova Scotia he volition beryllium the third consecutive Yukon premier from that province.

Pemberton has been progressive with the national and territorial Liberals for much than 20 years. He was the spokesperson for Ranj Pillai's run erstwhile the existent premier and enactment person ran uncontested for the Yukon Liberal Party leadership.

He besides antecedently owned a furnishings store successful downtown Whitehorse. He's served connected the Whitehorse and Yukon chambers of commerce, the Yukon Development Corporation and the committee of Yukon Energy. 

Pemberton is present premier-designate until a swearing-in ceremony.

Once sworn in, Pemberton will serve arsenic the territory's 11th premier until the adjacent wide election, which indispensable hap earlier November 3.

Darrell Pasloski was the Yukon enactment person astir recently chosen who was not already a sitting subordinate of the assembly. In 2011, helium became Yukon Party person and premier-designate connected May 29. 

On June 7, 2011, determination was an order-in-council to authorize the legislative assembly to commencement paying Pasloski a premier's wage adjacent though helium wasn't an MLA. On June 11, 2011, helium was officially sworn successful nether a commission's order.

Ahead of the vote, the Office of the Commissioner of Yukon said Thursday that they were not yet alert of erstwhile a swearing-in would hap for the victor of this race.