Copperbelt was an electoral district which returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It included the Whitehorse subdivisions of Hillcrest, Granger, Pineridge, MacRae, and part of Copper Ridge. It also included the Lobird mobile home park.
The riding was divided into the new ridings of Copperbelt South, Copperbelt North, Mountainview, and Takhini-Kopper King in 2009. The substantial amount of new housing development in the riding since its creation had led to a significant increase in population that had imbalanced the riding's size compared to others in the territory.
Copperbelt is the former seat of Yukon Liberal Party leader Arthur Mitchell, who was Yukon's Leader of the Official Opposition from 2005 to 2011.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Legislature Years Member Party 31st 2002–2004 Haakon Arntzen Yukon Party 2004–2005 Independent 2005–2006 Arthur Mitchell Yukon Liberal Party 32nd 2006–2011
Election results
2006
|Liberal |Arthur Mitchell |align="right"| 632 |align="right"| 52.5% |align="right"| +3.0%
|NDP |David Hedmann |align="right"| 191 |align="right"| 15.9% |align="right"| -14.8% |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"| 1204 !align="right"| 100.0% !align="right"| –
2005 by-election
|Liberal |Arthur Mitchell |align="right"|459 |align="right"|49.5% |align="right"|+16.9%
|NDP |Maureen Stephens |align="right"|285 |align="right"|30.7% |align="right"|+3.2%
|- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"| 927 !align="right"| 100.0% !align="right"| –
On the resignation of Haakon Arntzen (September 2005).
2002
|Liberal |Arthur Mitchell |align="right"| 312 |align="right"| 32.6% |align="right"| –
|NDP |Lillian Grubach-Hambrook |align="right"| 263 |align="right"| 27.5% |align="right"| – |- bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"| 957 !align="right"| 100.0% !align="right"| –
See also List of Yukon territorial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
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