Southern Lakes (electoral district)

Southern Lakes

Yukon electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries
Territorial electoral district
Legislature	Yukon Legislative Assembly
MLA	Tyler Porter Yukon Party
District created	2002
First contested	2002
Last contested	2025
Demographics
Electors (2006)	849
Census subdivision(s)	Carcross, Tagish, Marsh Lake, Jake's Corner, Judas Creek

Southern Lakes is an electoral district in rural Yukon which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon in Canada. In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), it was first contested at the 2025 Yukon general election. ^{[1] [2]}

Geography

The riding is part of the traditional territory of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, the Teslin Tlingit Council, the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and the Ta'an Kwach'an Council. It was bordered by the rural ridings of Pelly-Nisutlin, Kluane, and Lake Laberge, as well as the rural-residential riding of Mount Lorne south of Whitehorse.

History

Southern Lakes was originally created as part of the 2002 Electoral Boundaries Commission when the riding of Ross River-Southern Lakes was divided into the ridings of Southern Lakes and Pelly-Nisutlin. Southern Lakes retained the communities of Carcross and Tagish and merged with the bedroom community of Marsh Lake.

In the 2009 electoral redistribution, the riding was dissolved, combining with the Hamlet of Mount Lorne to form the new riding of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes. ^[3]

In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes was split into Marsh Lake-Mount Lorne-Golden Horn and Southern Lakes at the 2025 Yukon general election.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Southern Lakes Riding created from Ross River-Southern Lakes
31st	2002–2006		Patrick Rouble	Yukon Party
32nd	2006–2011
Riding dissolved into Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
Riding re-created from Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
36th	2025–present		Tyler Porter	Yukon Party

Election results

2025

v t e 2025 Yukon general election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Yukon Party	Tyler Porter	269	44.7
	New Democratic	Tip Evans	193	32.1
	Liberal	Cynthia James	127	21.1
	Independent	Jean-Michel Harvey	13	2.2
Total valid votes			602
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
Source(s) "Unofficial Election Results 2025". Elections Yukon . Retrieved 24 April 2021.

2021 Yukon general election redistributed results [4]
Party		Votes	%
	Yukon Party	287	41
	New Democratic	226	32
	Liberal	187	27

2006

2006 Yukon general election ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Yukon Party	Patrick Rouble	276	42.4%	+2.5%
	NDP	Kevin Barr	238	36.6%	+3.2%
	Liberal	Ethel Tizya	134	20.6%	+2.0%
Total			651	100.0%	–

2002

2002 Yukon general election ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Yukon Party	Patrick Rouble	227	39.9%	–
	NDP	Rachael Lewis	190	33.4%	–
	Liberal	Manfred Janssen	106	18.6%	–
	Independent	Warren Braunberger	41	7.2%	–
Total			569	100.0%	–

See also

• List of Yukon territorial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

1. "Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024) receives assent in the Yukon Legislative Assembly". Government of Yukon. 21 November 2024.
2. "EDBC Final Report 2024" (PDF). Elections Yukon. 9 October 2024.
3. "New map of Yukon electoral districts (2009)". Elections Yukon. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
4. Hutton, Kyle (24 May 2025). "Yukon's New Electoral Boundaries". Blunt Objects. Substack . Retrieved 3 June 2025.
5. The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of the Yukon on the 2006 General Election Elections Yukon (January 15, 2007). Retrieved November 16, 2016
6. The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of the Yukon on the 2002 General Election Elections Yukon (March 3, 2003). Retrieved November 16, 2016