Yukon Liberals choose federal candidate Saturday

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

There are four contendersBen Sanders, TamaraGoepell,GurdeepPandherand former Yukon MP LarryBagnell all vying for the seat in Parliament that Conservative Ryan Leef now occupies.

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 eligibleto vote intoday'selection.

"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 incumbentRyan 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 votetakes place between3 and 6 p.m. at the High County Convention Centrein Whitehorse.