Alexander Sammurtok

Alexander Sammurtok

MLA for Rankin Inlet South
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	first member
Personal details
Political party	non-partisan consensus government
Residence	Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

Alexander Sammurtok is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in a by-election on February 10, 2014.^[1] Sammurtok first ran in the 2013 election, but finished in an exact tie with incumbent MLA Lorne Kusugak in the redistributed district of Rankin Inlet South.^[2]

He is the nephew of Tom Sammurtok, the MLA for the neighbouring electoral district of Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet.^[3]

References

↑ "New Nunavut MLA ready to work “for the people”". Nunatsiaq News, February 11, 2014.
↑ Nunavut recounts produce one winner and one intractable deadlock. Nunatsiaq News, November 5, 2013
↑ "Alexander Sammurtok beats Lorne Kusugak to take Rankin Inlet South". Nunatsiaq News, February 10, 2014.

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut

Taptuna Akoak Angnakak Ell-Kanayuk Enook Hickes Joanasie Keyootak Kuksuk Mapsalak Mike Mikkungwak Okalik Peterson Qirngnuq Quassa Qulaut Rumbolt A. Sammurtok T. Sammurtok Savikataaq Shooyook

Vacancies: 1 Membership as per the Nunavut general election, 2013 and the 9 February 2015 by-election.

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