title: Jim McLachlan
text: # Jim McLachlan
  
  James Robert McLachlan is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Faro in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1989 and from 2001 to 2002. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1986 to 1989.
  
  He became the party's interim leader after the resignation of Roger Coles due to criminal charges.
  
  ## Electoral record
  
  ### 2002 general election
  
  Pelly-Nisutlin :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Yukon Party | Dean Hassard | 297 | 46.4% | – |
  | | Liberal | Jim McLachlan | 181 | 28.3% | – |
  | | NDP | Buzz Burgess | 162 | 25.3% | – |
  | Total | Total | Total | 640 | 100.0% | – |
  
  ### 2000 By-election
  
  2000 Faro By-election :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Jim McLachlan | 129 | 65.5% | +42.6% |
  | | NDP | Harold Boehm | 66 | 33.5% | -43.1% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 197 | 100.0% | – |
  
  * On the resignation of Trevor Harding (2000).
  
  ### 2000 general election
  
  Faro :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | NDP | Trevor Harding | 177 | 76.6% | -17.7% |
  | | Liberal | Jim McLachlan | 53 | 22.9% | +17.7% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 231 | 100.0% | – |
  
  ### 1992 general election
  
  Faro :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | NDP | Trevor Harding | 388 | 53.2% | +10.4% |
  | | Liberal | Jim McLachlan | 337 | 46.2% | +9.1% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 729 | 100.0% | – |
  
  ### 1989 general election
  
  Faro :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | NDP | Maurice Byblow | 194 | 42.8% | +9.3% |
  | | Liberal | Jim McLachlan | 168 | 37.1% | -2.2% |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Mel Smith | 90 | 19.9% | -7.0% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 453 | 100.0% | – |
  
  ### 1985 general election
  
  Faro :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Jim McLachlan | 142 | 39.3% | +17.1% |
  | | NDP | Sibyl Frei | 121 | 33.5% | -15.8% |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Ted Bartsch | 97 | 26.9% | -1.4% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 361 | 100.0% | – |
  