 The motion passed the legislature on a recorded vote with 11 members for and 7 against with one member absent
Currently, 7 of 19 of the Assembly's representatives are from the capital city of Yellowknife.The City of Yellowknife is launching a lawsuit to increase the number of Yellowknife-based MLAs to something more closely in line with the city's roughly 50 per cent of the NWT population.However, some say increasing the number of Yellowknife-based MLAs would weaken the territories on the whole.