The 1900 Yukon general election was the first general election in the history of the Yukon territory held on October 18, 1900.Steven Smyth, The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999). Clairedge Press, 1999.
It elected members of the Yukon Territorial Council.
Campaign The six-member Yukon Territorial Council was expanded to eight by adding two elected members, to serve alongside the already-appointed ones. This was the smallest general election in Canadian history.
The election was held in a territory wide district, using Plurality block voting, with no constituencies. In total four candidates contested the election for the two seats—two Government candidates and two Yukon Party candidates.
Election night
The official returns were read by appointed councilor Joseph Clarke.
Results
|- style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Affiliation !rowspan="2"|Candidates ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Electedmembers !colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote |- style="background:#ccc;" | style="text-align:center;"|# | style="text-align:center;"|%
|align="right"|2 |align="right"|2 |align="right"|2,460 |align="right"|63.62%
|align="right"|2 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|1,407 |align="right"|36.38% |- |- style="background:#EAECF0;" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|Total | style="text-align:right;"|4 | style="text-align:right;"|2 | style="text-align:right;"|3,867 | style="text-align:right;"|100%
Vote total by candidates AffiliationNameVotes%Yukon PartyArthur Wilson1,32634.29%Yukon PartyAlex Prud'homme1,13429.33%GovernmentThomas O'Brien82621.36%GovernmentAuguste Noel58115.02%Total3,867100%
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