Whistle Bend North

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Whistle Bend North
Flag of Yukon.svg Yukon electoral district
Territorial electoral district
Legislature Yukon Legislative Assembly
District created2024
First contested 2025
Demographics
Population (2024) [1] 1,910
Electors (2024) [2] 951
Census subdivision(s)Whistle Bend

Whistle Bend North is a future electoral district which will return a member (known as an MLA) to the Yukon Legislative Assembly. [3]

Contents

In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), it will first be contested at the 2025 Yukon general election, as one of thirteen ridings in the City of Whitehorse. [4] [5]

Geography

The riding will be located in Whistle Bend, on the western bank of the Yukon River, north of Eldorado Drive and northside of Keno Way. It will comprise of 3.60 kilometres squared in area, making it the fourth smallest, out of twenty-one ridings. [6]

History

The riding was created out of Porter Creek Centre and an unpopulated area of Porter Creek North, due to rapid growth in the Whistle Bend Development (the fastest of any community in Yukon) that is expected to continue into the latter half of the decade. [7] It will border Whistle Bend South, the other new riding created from redistricting, in addition to the aforementioned ridings of Porter Creek Centre and Porter Creek North. [2]

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
Whistle Bend North
Riding created from
Porter Creek Centre and Porter Creek North

Election results

The number of votes in the riding will initially be lower relative to other ridings in Whitehorse because of a number of considerations of the Electoral District Boundaries Commission aimed towards better voter parity. Firstly, in anticipation of continued growth outpacing that of the rest of Yukon, the number of electors was set at a considerably lower level. Secondly, because Whistle Bend has a sizable amount of new development, many may not have yet registered to vote with their address in Whistle Bend. As of March 31, 2024, despite a population estimate of 3,760 that would usually represent an average of 2,632 electors, there were only 2,201 registered electors in Whistle Bend. [2] However, as residents settle in, voter registrations should start to experience a sharp increase in the coming years. [3]

Overall, while the variance from the electoral quotient starts out at -40%, it is expected to be significantly reduced to within a -25% variance and actually surpass the electoral quotient with 1700+ electors by the end of 2025, as well as to eventually exceed a +25% variance with 3000+ electors by 2030, due to factors of population growth and self-correction of elector undercounts. [2]

2021 Yukon general election redistributed results [8]
PartyVote [a]  %
  Yukon Party 20145.48
  Liberal 16737.78
  New Democratic 7416.74

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References

  1. Yukon Bureau of Statistics: 2024
  2. 1 2 3 4 "EDBC Final Report 2024" (PDF). Elections Yukon. October 9, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Whistle Bend ridings, other major changes proposed". Whitehorse Daily Star. May 15, 2024.
  4. "Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024) receives assent in the Yukon Legislative Assembly". Government of Yukon. November 21, 2024.
  5. "Yukon MLAs vote to redraw electoral map, with 2 new Whitehorse ridings". CBC News. November 20, 2024.
  6. "Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission 2024". 2024 Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  7. "Yukon Bureau of Statistics Population Report, Q2 2024" (PDF). Government of Yukon. November 12, 2024.
  8. "2021 CEO Report - GE Administration" (PDF). Elections Yukon. January 30, 2024.

Notes

  1. This column contains a rough estimate of transposed votes based on 2021 poll-by-poll results in Copperbelt Centre. The boundaries of Whistle Bend North include polling districts 6, 7 and 8 (which received no votes). Additionally, some voted in advance polls or cast special ballots.

See also