Southern Lakes (electoral District)
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Southern Lakes was an
electoral district An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
in rural
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which returned a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the
Yukon Yukon () is a Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada, bordering British Columbia to the south, the Northwest Territories to the east, the Beaufort Sea to the north, and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. It is Canada’s we ...
in Canada. It was one of the eight rural ridings in the Yukon at the time. Southern Lakes was originally created as part of the 2002 Electoral Boundaries Commission when the riding of
Ross River-Southern Lakes Ross River-Southern Lakes was a territorial electoral district in Yukon. The district elected one member to the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2002. At the 2002 election, the district was divided between Pelly-Nisutlin and Southern L ...
was divided into the ridings of Southern Lakes and
Pelly-Nisutlin Pelly-Nisutlin is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was created in 2002 out of the districts of Faro and Ross River-Southern Lakes. The riding incl ...
. Southern Lakes retained the communities of
Carcross Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, () is an unincorporated community in Yukon, Canada, on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation. It is south-southeast by the Alaska Highway and the Klondike High ...
and
Tagish The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan ( Tagish: ; ) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon Yukon () is a Provinces and territories of Canada, territory ...
and merged with the bedroom community of
Marsh Lake Marsh Lake (Mud Lake) is a widening of the Yukon River southeast of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It is over long and ranges from wide. It has an area of and a mean depth of . The co-ordinates of the lake are , and is above sea level. The lak ...
. The riding was also part of the traditional territory of the
Carcross/Tagish First Nation The Carcross/Tagish First Nation (C/TFN or CTFN) is a First Nation native to the Canadian territory of Yukon. Its original population centres were Carcross and Tagish, and Squanga, although many of its citizens also live in Whitehorse. The ...
, the
Teslin Tlingit Council The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) is a First Nations in Canada, First Nation band government in the central Yukon in Canada, located in Teslin, Yukon along the Alaska Highway and Teslin Lake. The language originally spoken by the Teslin Tlingit or De ...
, the
Kwanlin Dün First Nation The Kwanlin Dün First Nation (KDFN) or Kwänlin Dän kwächʼǟn (″Whitehorse People″) is located in and around Whitehorse in Yukon, Canada. The Kwanlin Dün is the largest First Nation in Yukon. Linguistically, the Kwanlin Dün are aff ...
, and the Ta'an Kwach'an Council. It was bordered by the rural ridings of Pelly-Nisutlin, Kluane, and
Lake Laberge Lake Laberge is a widening of the Yukon River north of Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada. It is long and ranges from wide, with an average depth of , a maximum depth of and a surface area of . Its water is always very cold, and its weather often har ...
, as well as the rural-residential riding of Mount Lorne south of
Whitehorse Whitehorse () is the capital of Yukon, and the largest city in Northern Canada. It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 (Historic Mile 918) on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas ...
. The riding was held by the
Yukon Party The Yukon Party, formerly the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. History The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party was founded in April 1978. Long time Yukon legislator Hilda Watson was ...
's Patrick Rouble during its brief existence. 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.


MLAs


Election results


2006

, - ,
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, Kevin Barr , align="right", 238 , align="right", 36.6% , align="right", +3.2% , Liberal , Ethel Tizya , align="right", 134 , align="right", 20.6% , align="right", +2.0% , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 651 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –


2002

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NDP NDP may stand for: Computing * Neighbor Discovery Protocol, an Internet protocol * Nortel Discovery Protocol, a layer two Internet protocol, also called SONMP * Nondeterministic programming, a type of computer language Government * National Dev ...
, Rachael Lewis , align="right", 190 , align="right", 33.4% , align="right", – , Liberal , Manfred Janssen , align="right", 106 , align="right", 18.6% , align="right", – ,
Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ...
, Warren Braunberger , align="right", 41 , align="right", 7.2% , align="right", – , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 569 ! align= 100.0% ! align= –


See also

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List of Yukon territorial electoral districts Yukon territorial electoral districts are currently single member ridings that each elect one member to the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Current and proposed districts These districts were used for the 2021 Yukon general election and/or will ...
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Canadian provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non- coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts in the Southern Ontario region are coterminous wh ...


References

{{coord missing, Yukon Former Yukon territorial electoral districts