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Whistle Bend North
Yukon electoral district
Map
Interactive map of riding boundaries
Territorial electoral district
LegislatureYukon Legislative Assembly
MLA
 
 		 
Yvonne Clarke
Yukon Party
District created2024
First contested2025
Demographics
Population (2024)[1]1,910
Electors (2024)[2]951
Census subdivisionWhitehorse

Whistle Bend North is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Yukon Legislative Assembly.[3] In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), it was first contested at the 2025 Yukon general election, as one of thirteen ridings in the City of Whitehorse.[4][5]

Geography

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The riding is located in Whistle Bend, on the western bank of the Yukon River, north of Eldorado Drive and northside of Keno Way. It is 3.60 square kilometres in area, making it the fourth smallest out of twenty-one ridings.[6]

History

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The riding was created out of Porter Creek Centre and an unpopulated area of Porter Creek North, due to rapid growth in the Whistle Bend Development (the fastest of any community in Yukon) that is expected to continue into the latter half of the decade.[7] It borders Whistle Bend South, the other new riding created from redistricting, in addition to the aforementioned ridings of Porter Creek Centre and Porter Creek North.[2]

The number of votes in the riding will initially be lower relative to other ridings in Whitehorse because of several considerations of the Electoral District Boundaries Commission aimed towards better voter parity. Firstly, in anticipation of continued growth outpacing that of the rest of Yukon, the number of electors was set at a considerably lower level. Secondly, because Whistle Bend has a sizable amount of new development, many may not have yet registered to vote with their address in Whistle Bend. As of March 31, 2024, despite a population estimate of 3,760 that would usually represent an average of 2,632 electors, there were only 2,201 registered electors in Whistle Bend.[2] However, as residents settle in, voter registrations should start to experience a sharp increase in the coming years.[3]

Overall, while the variance from the electoral quotient starts out at −40 points, it is expected to be significantly reduced to within a −25-point variance and actually surpass the electoral quotient with 1700+ electors by the end of 2025, as well as to eventually exceed a +25-point variance with 3,000+ electors by 2030, due to factors of population growth and self-correction of elector undercounts.[2]

Assembly Years Member Party
Whistle Bend North
Riding created from
Porter Creek Centre and Porter Creek North
36th  2025–Present     Yvonne Clarke Yukon Party

Election results

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2025

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2025 Yukon general election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Yukon Party Yvonne Clarke 457 52.2
New Democratic Tiara Topps 312 35.6
Liberal Beverly Cooper 107 12.2
Total valid votes 876
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
Yukon Party hold Swing
Source(s)
"Unofficial Election Results 2025". Elections Yukon. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
2021 Yukon general election redistributed results[8]
Party Votes %
  Yukon Party 128 48
  Liberal 98 37
  New Democratic 40 15

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Yukon Bureau of Statistics: 2024
  2. ^ a b c d "EDBC Final Report 2024" (PDF). Elections Yukon. October 9, 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 1, 2025. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Whistle Bend ridings, other major changes proposed". Whitehorse Daily Star. May 15, 2024.
  4. ^ "Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024) receives assent in the Yukon Legislative Assembly". Government of Yukon. November 21, 2024.
  5. ^ "Yukon MLAs vote to redraw electoral map, with 2 new Whitehorse ridings". CBC News. November 20, 2024.
  6. ^ "Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission 2024". 2024 Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  7. ^ "Yukon Bureau of Statistics Population Report, Q2 2024" (PDF). Government of Yukon. November 12, 2024.
  8. ^ Hutton, Kyle (May 24, 2025). "Yukon's New Electoral Boundaries". Blunt Objects. Substack. Retrieved June 3, 2025.

Notes

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