# John Edzerza

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**John Edzerza** (August 14, 1948 – November 25, 2011) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) politician. He represented the [electoral district](/source/Electoral_district_(Canada)) of [McIntyre-Takhini](/source/McIntyre-Takhini) in the [Yukon Legislative Assembly](/source/Yukon_Legislative_Assembly).

## Political career

Born in [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia) in 1948,[1] he first entered politics in 2002 as a [Yukon Party](/source/Yukon_Party) MLA, and served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Education in [Dennis Fentie](/source/Dennis_Fentie)'s cabinet.

After disagreeing with a number of government decisions in early 2006, he resigned from the Yukon Party on August 2, 2006, to sit as an independent MLA, and recontested his seat in that fall's [territorial election](/source/2006_Yukon_general_election) as a candidate of the [Yukon New Democratic Party](/source/Yukon_New_Democratic_Party). He was re-elected, and served in the NDP caucus under [Todd Hardy](/source/Todd_Hardy) until January 2009, when he resigned from the NDP to sit again as an independent.[2] He rejoined the Yukon Party on October 22, 2009,[3] and served as Minister of the Environment until retiring in 2011.[4] Edzerza died of [leukemia](/source/Leukemia) on November 25, 2011.[5][6]

## Electoral record

### Yukon general election, 2006

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| [NDP](/source/New_Democratic_Party_of_Canada) | **John Edzerza** | align="right"| 336 | align="right"| 38.8% | align="right"| +7.0%

| [Liberal](/source/Yukon_Liberal_Party) | Ed Schultz | align="right"| 328 | align="right"| 37.9% | align="right"| +15.4%

|- ! align=left colspan=3|Total ! align=right| 865 ! align=right| **100.0%** ! align=right| **–** |}

### Yukon general election, 2002

|-

| [NDP](/source/Yukon_New_Democratic_Party) | Maureen Stephens | align="right"| 270 | align="right"| 29.8% | align="right"| -4.7%

| [Liberal](/source/Yukon_Liberal_Party) | [Judy Gingell](/source/Judy_Gingell) | align="right"| 204 | align="right"| 22.5% | align="right"| -15.9%

| [Independent](/source/Independent_(politician)#Canada) | [Wayne Jim](/source/Wayne_Jim) | align="right"| 129 | align="right"| 14.2% | align="right"| +14.2%

| Independent | Geoffrey Capp | align="right"| 15 | align="right"| 1.7% | align="right"| +1.7% |- ! align=left colspan=3|Total ! align=right| **906** ! align=right| **100.0%** ! align=right| **–** |}

### Yukon general election, 2000

|-

| [Liberal](/source/Yukon_Liberal_Party) | Wayne Jim | align="right"| 376 | align="right"| 38.4% | align="right"| +18.1%

| [NDP](/source/Yukon_New_Democratic_Party) | [Piers McDonald](/source/Piers_McDonald) | align="right"| 338 | align="right"| 34.5% | align="right"| -14.8%

|- ! align=left colspan=3|Total ! align=right| **979** ! align=right| **100.0%** ! align=right| **–** |}

## References

1. ["MLA biography"](http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/mlas/edzerza.html). Yukon Legislative Assembly. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130111080812/http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/mlas/edzerza.html) January 11, 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

1. ["Yukon MLA Edzerza quits NDP, will sit as Independent"](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-mla-edzerza-quits-ndp-will-sit-as-independent-1.791850). CBC News. January 29, 2009. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

1. ["Edzerza rejoins Yukon Party"](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/edzerza-rejoins-yukon-party-1.841336). CBC News. October 22, 2009. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

1. ["Edzerza named Yukon environment minister"](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/edzerza-named-yukon-environment-minister-1.900543). CBC News. February 4, 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

1. ["Former Yukon minister dies"](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/former-yukon-minister-dies-1.1045584). CBC News. November 28, 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

1. ["'He had so much more he wanted to do'"](http://whitehorsestar.com/News/he-had-so-much-more-he-wanted-to-do). *Whitehorse Daily Star*. November 28, 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

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