Introducing Vote YES Yukon!

With the 2025 Yukon election campaign officially starting, we’re thrilled to launch the Vote YES Yukon campaign!

The electoral reform plebiscite taking place alongside the territorial election is a great opportunity to make Yukon politics better. And, it’s a chance to inspire the rest of Canada by showing that electoral reform is possible!

Electoral reform – improving how we vote and choose our political representatives – has been talked about for years. The electoral system we use across Canada today, “first-past-the-post”, has a lot of downsides that lead to more polarization and more extreme political views.

Here in the Yukon, a citizens’ assembly of everyday Yukoners looked at how our electoral system could be improved. After a lot of discussion, the citizens’ assembly landed on ranked voting as the best option for the Yukon.

In ranked voting, you choose your candidates in order of preference – 1, 2, 3 and so on – when you vote. It gives you more of a choice than just picking one option, and it encourages political candidates to appeal to a broader range of the Yukon population.

At the same time, ranked voting keeps the local responsiveness and accountability of our current system. It’s a win-win!

Over the election period we’ll share more updates from the Vote YES Yukon campaign. We’d love for you to get involved! You can print off a poster, donate to our lawn sign fund, request a lawn sign, and – most of all – tell your friends about the plebiscite and encourage them to vote YES!

Thanks for reading and, as always, keep on being awesome!
– Sean

Sean Boots
Whitehorse, Yukon
voteyesyukon@gmail.com