| Jim McLachlan | |
| Birth Date: | 1 September 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Flin Flon, Manitoba |
| Office1: | MLA for Faro |
| Term Start1: | 1985 |
| Term End1: | 1989 |
| Predecessor1: | Maurice Byblow |
| Successor1: | Maurice Byblow |
| Office2: | MLA for Faro |
| Term Start2: | 2000 |
| Term End2: | 2002 |
| Predecessor2: | Trevor Harding |
| Successor2: | riding dissolved |
| Office3: | Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party |
| Term Start3: | May 9, 1986 |
| Term End3: | 1989 |
| Predecessor3: | Roger Coles |
| Successor3: | Paul Thériault |
| Party: | Liberal |
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.[1]
He became the party's interim leader after the resignation of Roger Coles due to criminal charges.[2]
|- | style="width: 130px" |Liberal| Jim McLachlan|align="right"| 181|align="right"| 28.3%|align="right"| - |-|NDP|Buzz Burgess|align="right"| 162|align="right"| 25.3%|align="right"| - |- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|640!align="right"|100.0%!align="right"| -
|- | Liberal| Jim McLachlan|align="right"| 129|align="right"| 65.5%|align="right"| +42.6%|NDP| Harold Boehm|align="right"| 66|align="right"| 33.5%|align="right"| -43.1%|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"| 197!align="right"| 100.0%!align="right"| - |}
|-|NDP| Trevor Harding| align="right"| 177| align="right"| 76.6%| align="right"| -17.7%| Liberal| Jim McLachlan| align="right"| 53| align="right"| 22.9%| align="right"| +17.7%|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total! align=right| 231! align=right| 100.0%! align=right| - |}
|-|NDP| Trevor Harding| align="right"| 388| align="right"| 53.2%| align="right"| +10.4%
| Liberal| Jim McLachlan| align="right"| 337| align="right"| 46.2%| align="right"| +9.1%|- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total! align=right| 729! align=right| 100.0%! align=right| - |}
|-| NDP| Maurice Byblow| align="right"| 194| align="right"| 42.8%| align="right"| +9.3%|-| Liberal| Jim McLachlan| align="right"| 168| align="right"| 37.1%| align="right"| -2.2%|-|-! align=left colspan=3|Total! align=right| 453! align=right| 100.0%! align=right| - |}
|-| Liberal| Jim McLachlan| align="right"| 142| align="right"| 39.3%| align="right"| +17.1%|-| NDP| Sibyl Frei| align="right"| 121| align="right"| 33.5%| align="right"| -15.8%|-|-! align=left colspan=3|Total! align=right| 361! align=right| 100.0%! align=right| - |}