Watson Lake (electoral district)

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Watson Lake
Flag of Yukon.svg Yukon electoral district
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Boundaries of Watson Lake
Territorial electoral district
Legislature Yukon Legislative Assembly
MLA
 
 
 
Patti McLeod
Yukon Party
District created1970
First contested 1970
Last contested 2021
Demographics
Electors (2016)857
Census subdivision(s) Swift River, Two Mile and Two and One-Half Mile Village, Upper Liard, Watson Lake, Yukon, Unorganized

Watson Lake is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. The riding is one of the Yukon's eight rural ridings and is one of the oldest ridings in the Yukon.

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Watson Lake includes the communities of Watson Lake and Upper Liard and is situated on the traditional territory of the Ross River Dena Council and the Liard First Nation of the Kaska Dena. It is bordered to the west by the rural riding of Pelly-Nisutlin.

It is considered a Yukon Party stronghold.

Members of the Territorial Council / Legislative Assembly

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
22nd  1970–1974   Donald Taylor Independent
23rd  1974–1978
24th  1978–1982   Progressive Conservative
25th  1982–1985
 1985–1985   Independent
26th  1985–1989   Dave Porter New Democratic
27th  1989–1991   John Devries Progressive Conservative
 1991–1992   Yukon Party
28th  1992–1996
29th  1996–2000   Dennis Fentie New Democratic
30th  2000–2002
 2002–2002   Yukon Party
31st  2002–2006
32nd  2006–2011
33rd  2011–2016 Patti McLeod
34th  2016–2021
35th  2021–Present

Electoral results

2021

The Yukon NDP nominated candidate Amy Labonte. Two days after the close of nominations, following controversy over past social media posts, [1] Labonte withdrew her candidacy on March 24, 2021. [2] Watson Lake became the only electoral district in the Yukon without an NDP candidate. For the first time since 1970, Watson Lake had only two candidates on the ballot.

2021 Yukon general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party Patti McLeod 31356.9+18.0%
Liberal Amanda Brown23743.09+15.5%
Total valid votes 550
Total rejected ballots 11
Turnout 561
Eligible voters
Yukon Party hold Swing -6.91
Source(s)
"Official Election Results 2021" (PDF). Elections Yukon . Retrieved 12 August 2021.

2016

2016 Yukon general election [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party Patti McLeod 29938.9%+1.8%
  NDP Erin Labonte21928.5%-4.6%
  Liberal Ernie Jamieson21227.6%+5.0%
  Independent Victor Kisoun385.0%-1.6%
Total768100.0%

2011

2011 Yukon general election [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party Patti McLeod 27637.8%-26.9%
  NDP Liard McMillan24233.1%+27.3%
  Liberal Thomas Slager16522.6%-3.0%
  Independent Patricia Gilhooly486.6%+6.6%
Total731100.0%

2006

2006 Yukon general election [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party Dennis Fentie 49564.7%+1.6%
  Liberal Rick Harder19625.6%+4.4%
  NDP Rachael Lewis455.8%-10.0%
  Independent Dale Robert Worsfold283.6%+3.6%
Total764100.0%

2002

2002 Yukon general election [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party Dennis Fentie 52163.1%+46.2%
  Liberal Tom Cove17421.1%-10.9%
  NDP Kathy Magun13015.8%-35.3%
Total825100.0%

2000

2000 Yukon general election [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  NDP Dennis Fentie 43451.1%-1.7%
  Liberal Isaac Wood27232.0%+19.3%
Yukon Party Mickey Thomas14416.9%-12.8%
Total850100.0%

1996

1996 Yukon general election [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  NDP Dennis Fentie 44252.8%+18.3%
Yukon Party Barrie Ravenhill24929.7%-29.0%
  Liberal Dave Kalles10612.7%+5.9%
  Independent Mickey Thomas404.8%+4.8%
Total837100.0%

1992

1992 Yukon general election [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Yukon Party John Devries 48558.7%+13.5%
  NDP Karel Kauppinen28534.5%-10.2%
  Liberal Ron Lutz566.8%-2.7%
Total826100.0%

1989

1989 Yukon general election [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative John Devries 29845.2%+29.4%
  NDP Karel Kauppinen29544.7%+11.5%
  Liberal John McDonald639.5%+9.5%
Total660100.0%

1985

1985 Yukon general election [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  NDP Dave Porter 18333.2%+29.9%
  Independent Donald Taylor 17430.6%-0.4%
  Independent Brian Shanahan11921.0%-8.1%
Progressive Conservative Don McIntosh9015.8%-11.1%
Total568100.0%

1982

1982 Yukon general election [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Independent Donald Taylor 17031.0%+31.0%
  Independent Brian Shanahan15428.1%+28.1%
Progressive Conservative Dave Rollie14227.5%-25.9%
  Liberal Eileen Van Bibber6010.9%-34.9%
  NDP James Cahill183.3%+3.3%
Total548100.0%

1978

1978 Yukon general election [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Donald Taylor 22653.4%
  Liberal Grant Taylor18844.9%
Total419100.0%

1974

1974 Yukon general election [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Independent Donald Taylor 22349.6%
  Independent Johnny Friend11024.4%
  Independent Harold Godfrey10723.8%
Total450100.0%

1970

1970 Yukon general election [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Independent Donald Taylor 39758.0%
  Independent R.W. Stubenberg27540.2%
Total684100.0%

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  2. https://electionsyukon.ca/en/withdrawl-of-candidate [ dead link ]
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