Dale Eftoda

Dale Eftoda
MLA for Riverdale North
In office
2000–2002
Preceded byDoug Phillips
Succeeded byTed Staffen
Personal details
Born1949
Political partyLiberal

Dale Eftoda is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2002.[1] He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party caucus.

Eftoda became the first openly gay member of the Yukon legislature when he introduced his partner in the assembly on November 29, 2001.[2] Prior to his election to the legislature, he was executive director of the AIDS Yukon Alliance, an HIV/AIDS education and service agency in Whitehorse.[3]

He was defeated by Ted Staffen of the Yukon Party in the 2002 territorial election, in which every incumbent Liberal MLA except party leader Pat Duncan lost their seats.

  1. ^ Yukon Votes 2006: Riverdale North. CBC News, October 10, 2006.
  2. ^ Hansard. Yukon Legislative Assembly, November 29, 2001.
  3. ^ "Yukon: Four new HIV cases reported". The Globe and Mail, April 18, 1995.