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Yukon electoral district | |
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Defunct territorial electoral district | |
Legislature | Yukon Legislative Assembly |
District created | 1978 |
District abolished | 2002 |
First contested | 1978 |
Last contested | 2000 |
Demographics | |
Electors (2000) | 234 |
Census subdivision(s) | Faro |
Faro was an electoral district that returned a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada between 1978 and 2002.[1] It was created out of the riding of Pelly River and encompassed the community of Faro. It was situated on the traditional territory of the Ross River Dena Council of the Kaska Dena.
The riding was dissolved in 2002 and amalgamated into the new riding of Pelly-Nisutlin, which includes the communities of Faro, Teslin, Ross River, and Little Salmon.
Faro is the former seat of Yukon Liberal leader Jim McLachlan and New Democrat Trevor Harding, who briefly served as interim leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party and interim Leader of the Official Opposition after his party's defeat in the 2000 territorial election.