Southern Lakes (electoral district)

Southern Lakes is an electoral district in rural Yukon which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon in Canada. In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), it was first contested at the 2025 Yukon general election.

Geography The riding is part of the traditional territory of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, the Teslin Tlingit Council, the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and the Ta'an Kwach'an Council. It was bordered by the rural ridings of Pelly-Nisutlin, Kluane, and Lake Laberge, as well as the rural-residential riding of Mount Lorne south of Whitehorse.

History Southern Lakes was originally created as part of the 2002 Electoral Boundaries Commission when the riding of Ross River-Southern Lakes was divided into the ridings of Southern Lakes and Pelly-Nisutlin. Southern Lakes retained the communities of Carcross and Tagish and merged with the bedroom community of Marsh Lake.

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.

In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes was split into Marsh Lake-Mount Lorne-Golden Horn and Southern Lakes at the 2025 Yukon general election.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results 2025

2021 Yukon general election redistributed results Party Votes % Yukon Party 287 41 New Democratic 226 32 Liberal 187 27

2006

| NDP | Kevin Barr | align="right"| 238 | align="right"| 36.6% | align="right"| +3.2%

2002

| NDP | Rachael Lewis | align="right"| 190 | align="right"| 33.4% | align="right"| –

See also List of Yukon territorial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

Southern Lakes (electoral district)

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