The 1996 Yukon general election was held on September 30, 1996 to elect the seventeen members of the 29th Yukon Legislative Assembly in Yukon Territory, Canada. The governing Yukon Party, a conservative party, was defeated by the social democratic New Democratic Party (NDP). The NDP formed a new majority government of the territory with 11 seats. Party leader Piers McDonald became Government Leader. The Yukon Party and the centrist Yukon Liberal Party each won three seats, although Liberal leader Ken Taylor failed to be elected.

Results by party

! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party leader !rowspan="2"| Candidates ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Seats !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote

Member Changes from Previous Election

Incumbents not Running for Reelection

The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1996 election: Independent New Democratic Party Yukon Party

Riding Results

Bold indicates party leaders † - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA 530 29 372 603 96 21 377 144 177 66 328 325 242 221 441 251 182 21 454 180 484 247 299 166 191 403 384 181 397 435 347 450 146 349 476 260 160 267 484 49 317 69 * 69 27 442 249 106 40 328 216 188 486 323 383