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Yukon electoral district | |||
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Territorial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Yukon Legislative Assembly | ||
MLA |
Yukon Party | ||
District created | 1970 | ||
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.
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.