Range Lake | Caroline Cochrane-Johnson and Daryl Dolynny

The Range Lake seat was held from 1999 until 2011 by former health minister Sandy Lee, who won with massive majorities in 2003 and 2007. She left territorial politics to run unsuccessfully for the federal Conservatives in 2011.

Yellowknife businessman DarylDolynnywon the riding and was shortly embroiled in a dispute with theGNWTover debts owed from a failed business venture. That matter was settled in 2012, although the terms were never made public.

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Dolynny, who emerged as a hawk on transparency and fiscal issues during last session, is running again. This time he's facingCarolineCochrane-Johnson, who, despite being a political rookie boasts a formidable resume in business and non-profit management.

Range Lakeis made up of newer middle- and higher-income neighbourhoods, trailer courts and industrial lots on the west side of Yellowknife. It includes the Yellowknife Airport, Stanton Territorial Hospital, Range Lake North Elementary School, and the commercial district along Old Airport Road.

Caroline Cochrane-Johnson

Cochrane-Johnson moved to Yellowknife when she was two and has been here ever since. She has a degree in social work and numerous courses in business and finance. She's worked mostly in those fields, including a stint bookkeeping for her family's business, Titan Drilling. For the last four years she's been the chief executive officer of the Centre for Northern Families which she helped steer out of a $300,000 debt.

Cochrane-Johnson says the Northwest Territories needs a 15-year strategic economic plan to deal with the eventual closure of the diamond mines. This plan requires input from the public and all government departments and must consider human needs, business and the environment. She says the territory needs to improve infrastructure and education and boost the tourism and agriculture sectors.

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Daryl Dolynny

Originally from Bonnyville, Alberta, Dolynnyis a pharmacist by trade.He opened Yellowknife's Shopper's Drug Mart locationin1992 and owned it until his election as MLA in 2011. He served aschair of the Yellowknife Community Foundation and president of the Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation.

Dolynny says the main issue in this election is the cost of living and the N.W.T.'s economic outlook. He's also concerned about what happens when the diamond mines close, and says out-migration is increasing as consumer confidence decays. He wants to see programs and incentives to boost the economy. He also says government needs to do more to tackle homelessness. He considers the anti-poverty strategy implemented by the last government a good start, but not enough.

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