Clarke – a first-time Yukon Party candidate – won Porter Creek Centre on Monday. She’s the first Filipina MLA for the Yukon... breaking both race and gender barriers in the process. For half the evening, her victory looked unlikely as single-term incumbent Paolo Gallina led the polls and was inching toward retaining the seat for the Liberals. However, Clarke steadily and inexorably gained ground on him, seizing the lead for good by approximately 10 p.m. By that time, Clarke had come and gone at her party’s election night headquarters. “I suddenly realized I didn’t have my husband with me and I wanted to share the moment with him,” a somewhat-sheepish Clarke told the Star Tuesday morning.