Watson Lake (electoral district)

Watson Lake

Yukon electoral district
Watson Lake in relation to other electoral districts in the Yukon
Territorial electoral district
Legislature	Yukon Legislative Assembly
MLA	Patti McLeod Yukon Party
District created	1978
First contested	1978
Last contested	2016
Demographics
Census subdivisions	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.

MLAs

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
1978	1978–1982		Don Taylor	Progressive Conservative
1982	1982–1985
	1985			Independent
1985	1985–1989		Dave Porter	New Democratic
1989	1989–1991		John Devries	Progressive Conservative
	1991–1992			Yukon Party
1992	1992–1996
1996	1996–2000		Dennis Fentie	New Democratic
2000	2000–2002
	2002			Yukon Party
2002	2002–2006
2006	2006–2011
2011	2011–present	Patti McLeod
2016	2016–present

Electoral results

1992 general election

Yukon general election, 1992

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	John Devries	485	58.7	–
	NDP	Karel Kauppinen	285	34.5
	Liberal	Ron Lutz	56	6.8
Total			826	100

1996 general election

Yukon general election, 1996

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	NDP	Dennis Fentie	442	52.8	+18.3
	Yukon Party	Barrie Ravenhill	249	29.7	-29.0
	Liberal	Dave Kalles	106	12.7	+5.9
	Independent	Mickey Thomas	40	4.8	+4.8
Total			837	100.0

2000 general election

Yukon general election, 2000

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	NDP	Dennis Fentie	434	51.1	-1.7
	Liberal	Isaac Wood	272	32.0	+19.3
	Yukon Party	Mickey Thomas	144	16.9	-12.8
Total			850	100.0

2002 general election

Yukon general election, 2002

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Dennis Fentie	521	63.1	+46.2
	Liberal	Tom Cove	174	21.1	-10.9
	NDP	Kathy Magun	130	15.8	-35.3
Total			825	100.0

2006 general election

Yukon general election, 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Dennis Fentie	495	64.7	+1.6
	Liberal	Rick Harder	196	25.6	+4.4
	NDP	Rachael Lewis	45	5.8	-10.0
	Independent	Dale Robert Worsfold	28	3.6	+3.6
Total			764	100.0

2011 general election

Yukon general election, 2011

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Yukon Party	Patti McLeod	276	37.8	-26.9
	NDP	Liard McMillan	242	33.1	+27.3
	Liberal	Thomas Slager	165	22.6	-3.0
	Independent	Patricia Gilhooly	48	6.6	+6.6
Total			731

References

• Watson Lake - Yukon Votes 2006. Retrieved May 22, 2009.