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Which party will be chosen to form the next government?

Conservative voters in the Yukon aren’t usually worried about vote-splitting, but due to a last-minute switch of candidates, there’s a choice to be made this year. Barbara Dunlop replaced Jonas Smith as Conservative candidate on Aug. 17, days after the Liberals called an election.

After losing long-time Liberal MP Larry Bagnell to retirement, the federal Liberals needed a star candidate in the Yukon. They found one in the territory’s top doc.

While he’s running as an independent this time around, Jonas Smith will be a familiar name to voters who filled out a ballot two years ago.

Lisa Vollans-Leduc says she started a lifetime of activism in Grade 8, when she joined fellow students in protesting the closure of her small town school.

Lenore Morris is the returning candidate for the Yukon Greens after she raised the party’s vote share by seven per cent of the vote in 2019.

Read profiles of all five candidates before voting on Sept. 20

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