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♂ Uriash Puqiqnak
aliasUriash Puqiqnak
Record
51078 · 8724

Inuit   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nunavut 1 0 1
Northwest Territories 0 1 1
Total 1 1 2
Birth 15 April 1946
Age 78 years + 1 month
First mandate 15 February 1999 → 25 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 10 months
 
Mandate ended 20 years + 3 months ago (15 February 2004)
Special notes
None
 
Uriash Puqiqnak (1946– )
© Photo 2013 Ed Stewart / Nunatsiaq News — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nunavut 4 11 30 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ John Ningark  m 
 
 
Eligible: 997 Votes: 712 Participation: 71.41% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
13		 Northwest Territories
16 October 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30836(F) — 22 Jan 2023 00:44 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
49
IND
 2/2 338 48.01% -28 Winner:
IND
 366 51.99% John Ningark
Eligible: 817 Votes: 699 Participation: 85.56% Candidacies: 6
Territorial
1		 Nunavut
15 February 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30369(F) — 17 Jan 2023 16:46 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
IND
 1/6 179 25.79% +18 Loser:
IND
 161 23.20% Joseph W. Aglukkaq

Service: 5 years (Oppo.)
Eligible: 718 Votes: 715 Participation: 99.58% Candidacies: 7
Territorial
2		 Nunavut
15 February 2004
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30387(F) — 6 May 2023 18:51 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
IND
 305 42.84% Leona Aglukkaq

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
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Uriash Puqiqnak		 15 Apr 2024

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