First contested 1970 Electors (2016) 857 | Last contested 2016 Elector 857 District created 1970 | |
Census subdivisions Swift River, Two Mile and Two and One-Half Mile Village, Upper Liard, Watson Lake, Yukon, Unorganized Census divisions Swift River, Yukon, Two and One-Half Mile Village, Upper Liard, Unorganized Yukon | ||
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.
The riding is currently held by Yukon Party MLA Patti McLeod, the former Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, who was first elected on October 11, 2011 and re-elected on November 7, 2016. The riding is also the former seat of two-term Premier Dennis Fentie of the Yukon Party.
It is considered a Yukon Party stronghold.