Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes

Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes

Yukon electoral district
Boundaries of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
Territorial electoral district
Legislature	Yukon Legislative Assembly
MLA	John Streicker Liberal
District created	2009
First contested	2011
Last contested	2016
Demographics
Electors (2016)	1,443
Census subdivision(s)	Carcross, Carcross 4, Macpherson-Grizzly Valley, Marsh Lake, Mt. Lorne, Tagish, Whitehorse, Unorganized, Yukon, Unorganized

Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. It was one of the Yukon's eight rural ridings.

The district was first contested in the 2011 election. It was created by merging most of the former districts of Mount Lorne and Southern Lakes. The riding includes the Yukon communities of Carcross, Tagish, Marsh Lake, and Mount Lorne as well part of the traditional territory of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, the Teslin Tlingit Council, and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.

The current MLA of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes is Liberal John Streicker, who was elected on November 7, 2016.

MLAs

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
37th	2011–2016		Kevin Barr	New Democrat
2016	2016–present		John Streicker	Liberal

Election results

2016 general election

2016 Yukon general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Streicker	451	38.5%	+27.9%
	NDP	Kevin Barr	437	37.3%	-9.5%
	Yukon Party	Rob Schneider	284	24.2%	-13.7%
Total			1172	100.0%	–

2011 general election

2011 Yukon general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Kevin Barr	488	46.8%
	Yukon Party	Deborah Fulmer	395	37.9%
	Liberal	Ted Adel	111	10.6%
	First Nations Party	Stanley James	49	4.7%
Total			1,043	100.0%
Source(s) "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Yukon on the 2011 General Election" (PDF). Elections Yukon. 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2017.