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Nunavut is a federal electoral district in Nunavut, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Nunatsiaq, its predecessor that covered the same area, was a federal electoral district in Northwest Territories, that was represented in the House of Commons from 1979 to 1997.
Nunavut is the only electoral district in the territory.
With a total area of 2,093,190 km² (808,199 mi²)1 Nunavut is the largest electoral district in Canada, and the second largest in the world, after Kalgoorlie, Australia.2
History
The electoral district was created in 1976 as "Nunatsiaq" riding from parts of Northwest Territories riding. It was replaced by "Nunavut" in 1996.
Nunavut is a strongly Liberal territory: the Liberal candidate has won every election since 1988 (often by an enormous margin) and finished at least second in every election since the establishment of the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in 1979. Nunatsiaq voted for the New Democratic Party during the Trudeau/Clark elections, and swung to the Progressive Conservative Party with Mulroney's landslide in 1984. All elections until 1993 were close—at most, 600 votes separated first from second—but in 1993 Liberal incumbent Jack Iyerak Anawak won by nearly 4,000 votes, a considerable margin for such a sparsely populated region. Though 1997 was a little closer, 2000 was another Liberal blow-out for incumbent Nancy Karetak-Lindell, who again won by nearly 4,000 votes. The Liberals maintained a strong showing in 2004, however, in 2006, their margin of victory shrunk considerably. The Conservatives managed a surprisingly strong second, more than doubling their 2004 percentage.
Nunavut electoral district
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