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Yukon Liberals choose federal candidate Saturday

More than 2,000 people are eligible to vote in Saturday's election, which will choose the person that will run in the next federal election.

Party now has 2,000 members, most since 1997

Yukon Liberals are choosing Saturday who will represent the party in the next federal election.

There are four contenders — Ben Sanders, Tamara Goepell, Gurdeep Pandher and former Yukon MP Larry Bagnell — all vying for the seat in Parliament that Conservative Ryan Leef now occupies.

Former Yukon MP Larry Bagnell is one of the people running in the election for federal Yukon Liberal Party candidate.

The candidates have been frantically recruiting members for the past month, which has given the Yukon Liberal Party a record number of members; just over 2,000 people eligible to vote in today's election.

"That's a lot of people signed up to support a Liberal candidate and it bodes well for the future," said Jason Cunning, the party's Yukon Election Readiness Chair.

But Cunning says numbers don't mean everything and the party needs to be careful not to take anything for granted in the run-up to the election.

The Conservative incumbent Ryan Leef has already been acclaimed to run again in the election in October 2015. 

There's no word yet on who will represent the New Democrats or the Green Party.

Today's Liberal vote takes place between 3 and 6 p.m. at the High County Convention Centre in Whitehorse.