| Whistle Bend North | |
| Province: | Yukon |
| Prov-Status: | upcoming |
| Prov-Created: | 2024 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 2025 |
| Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
| Demo-Electors-Ref: | [2] |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2024 |
| Demo-Pop: | 1,910 |
| Demo-Electors: | 951 |
| Demo-Electors-Date: | 2024 |
| Demo-Csd: | Whistle Bend |
Whistle Bend North is a future electoral district which will return a member (known as an MLA) to the Yukon Legislative Assembly.[3]
In accordance with the Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024), it will first be contested at the 2025 Yukon general election, as one of thirteen ridings in the City of Whitehorse.[4] [5]
The riding will be located in Whistle Bend, on the western bank of the Yukon River, north of Eldorado Drive and northside of Keno Way. It will comprise of 3.60 kilometres squared in area, making it the fourth smallest, out of twenty-one ridings.[6]
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 will border Whistle Bend South, the other new riding created from redistricting, in addition to the aforementioned ridings of Porter Creek Centre and Porter Creek North.
The number of votes in the riding will initially be lower relative to other ridings in Whitehorse because of a number of 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. However, as residents settle in, voter registrations should start to experience a sharp increase in the coming years.
Overall, while the variance from the electoral quotient starts out at -40%, it is expected to be significantly reduced to within a -25% variance and actually surpass the electoral quotient with 1700+ electors by the end of 2025, as well as to eventually exceed a +25% variance with 3000+ electors by 2030, due to factors of population growth and self-correction of elector undercounts.
| 2021 Yukon general election redistributed results[8] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 201 | 45.48 | ||||
| 167 | 37.78 | ||||
| 74 | 16.74 | ||||