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♂ Alexander Sammurtok
aliasAlexander Sammurtok
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 In office
Nunavut
Consensual (Opposition)
 Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nunavut 2 2 4
Birth c. 1952
Age ± 72 years
First mandate 10 February 2014 → 10 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age ± 62 years
 
 
Special notes
None
 
Alexander Sammurtok (c.1952– ) 200x171
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nunavut — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Tom Sammurtok (c. 1946–) Uncle  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nunavut 6 2 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Lorne Q. Kusugak  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Cathy Q. Towtongie  f 
 
Eligible: 736 Votes: 350 Participation: 47.55% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
4		 Nunavut
28 October 2013
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30440(F) — 24 Nov 2023 21:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±61
IND
 2/2 172 50.00% 0 Winner:
IND
 172 50.00% Lorne Q. Kusugak
Eligible: 707 Votes: 495 Participation: 70.01% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
4		 Nunavut
10 February 2014
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30444(F) — 24 Nov 2023 21:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±62
IND
 1/2 268 54.36% +43 Loser:
IND
 225 45.64% Lorne Q. Kusugak

Service: 3 years 8 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,670 Votes: 447 Participation: 5.83% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
5		 Nunavut
30 October 2017
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30465(F) — 24 Nov 2023 21:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
±65
IND
 2/2 136 30.56% -173 Winner:
IND
 309 69.44% Lorne Q. Kusugak
Eligible: 821 Votes: 316 Participation: 38.49% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
6		 Nunavut
25 October 2021
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 36079(F) — 24 Nov 2023 21:04 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
±69
IND
 1/3 147 46.82% +23 Loser:
IND
 124 39.49% Cathy Q. Towtongie

Service: 2 years 6 months 8 days (Oppo.)

Online biographical reference

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EN Wikipedia
Alexander Sammurtok		 04 Jan 2024

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