Alexander Sammurtok

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Alexander Sammurtok
MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Rankin Inlet South
In office
February 10, 2014 – September 24, 2017
Preceded byRiding Established
Succeeded byLorne Kusugak
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet
Assumed office
November 19, 2021[1]
Preceded byCathy Towtongie
Personal details
Political partynon-partisan
consensus government
ResidenceRankin 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.[2] 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.[3]

He is the nephew of Tom Sammurtok, who was the MLA for the neighbouring electoral district of Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet.[4] Both Alexander and Tom Sammurtok were defeated in the 2017 Nunavut general election, Alexander by Kusugak and Tom by Cathy Towtongie; in the 2021 Nunavut general election, Alexander Sammurtok ran in Rankin Inlet North and defeated Towtongie.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "MLAs sworn in by Nunavut commissioner". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "New Nunavut MLA ready to work “for the people”". Nunatsiaq News, February 11, 2014.
  3. ^ Nunavut recounts produce one winner and one intractable deadlock. Nunatsiaq News, November 5, 2013.
  4. ^ "Alexander Sammurtok beats Lorne Kusugak to take Rankin Inlet South". Nunatsiaq News, February 10, 2014.
  5. ^ Derek Neary, "Two judicial recounts required in Nunavut territorial election". Northern News Services, October 25, 2021.


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