Here's who's running in Yukon's rural community elections next month

Nominations for next month's municipal elections in the Yukon closed on Thursday afternoon, with a long list of people running for council seats in several communities.

Voting day is Oct. 17 for mayors and councillors in Whitehorse, Dawson City, Watson Lake, Carmacks, Faro, Mayo, Teslin and Haines Junction.

Local advisory councils will also be elected or acclaimed in the unincorporated communities of Ibex Valley, Marsh Lake, Mount Lorne, Tagish and Carcross.

Nominations closed at noon on Thursday and some municipalities released their candidate lists soon after. This story will be updated as CBC News receives more confirmed candidates lists.

Five people are running for mayor in Whitehorse and 18 people are running for the six councillor positions.

Outside of the capital, mayors in several communities, including Dawson City and Faro, are seeking re-election. The full candidate lists for Yukon's rural communities are listed (alphabetically) below.  

Carmacks

The current mayor of Carmacks, Lee Bodie, is not running for reelection. Two people are running to succeed him:

• Justin Lachance (currently a councillor)
• Kevin Untershute

Six people are running for the four councillor positions:

• Azmy Aboulazm
• Helena Belanger (incumbent)
• Cory Bellmore
• Doris Hansen (incumbent)
• Dennis Mitchell (incumbent)
• Tara Wheeler

Dawson City

Three people are running for mayor in Dawson City:

• Stephen Johnson
• Bill Kendrick (incumbent)
• Sue Lancaster

Ten people are running for four councillor positions:

• Lisa Anderson
• Jimmy Boddie
• Giulia Cecchi
• Cud Eastbound
• Tobias Graf
• Justine Hobbs
• Darwyn Lynn
• Kathleen McGarity
• Patrik Pikálek (incumbent)
• Alex Somerville (incumbent)

Faro

Two people are running for mayor in Faro:

• Jack Bowers (incumbent)
• Lisa Snyder

Eight people are running for four councillor positions:

• Leonard Faber
• Taylor Fetterly (incumbent)
• Gary Jones
• Sarah McHugh (incumbent)
• Wendy Michell-Larocque
• Trevor Noseworthy
• Michelle Vainio
• Neil Yee

Haines Junction

Three people are running for mayor in Haines Junction. The current mayor, Bruce Tomlin, is not seeking re-election.

• Angie Charlebois (currently a councillor)
• Brian Melanson
• Michael Riseborough

Seven people are running for four councillor positions:

• Deborah Busche
• Thomas Eckervogt
• Iris Flibotte
• William Karman
• Sydney Mackinnon
• Robert McPhie
• Diane Strand (incumbent)

Mayo

Mayor Trevor Ellis has been acclaimed to another term.

There are six candidates running for four seats on council. 

• Jo-Ann Aird (incumbent)
• Brent Chapman (incumbent)
• Chelsea Dolan
• Simeon Paschuk (incumbent)
• Brett Stauffer
• Sierra White 

Teslin

Incumbent Mayor Gord Curran has been acclaimed to another term.

There are five candidates for four councillor positions.

• Marina Hansen
• Robert Hassard
• Kelly Howard 
• Luc Johnstone (incumbent)
• Jeff Myke (incumbent)

Watson Lake

Watson Lake's incumbent mayor Christopher Irvin seeking election as a councillor this year. Two people are running to be mayor:

• Robert Ellis 
• Lauren Hanchar (now a councillor)

Six people are running to fill the four councillor positions:

• Dale Burdes (incumbent)
• Christopher Irvin (now mayor)
• Denina Paquette (incumbent)
• Norma Puckett 
• Thomas Slager (incumbent)
• William Whimp