 Nunavut electoral district | |||
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| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 1976 | ||
| First contested | 1979 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2021)[1] | 36,858 | ||
| Electors (2021) | 18,665 | ||
| Area (km²)[2] | 1,836,993.78 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 0.02 | ||
| Census division(s) | Kitikmeot Region, Keewatin Region, Baffin Region | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Arviat, Baker Lake, Igloolik, Cambridge Bay, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Kinngait, Kugluktuk | ||
Nunavut is a federal electoral district in Nunavut, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. Before 1997, it was known as Nunatsiaq, and was one of two electoral districts in Northwest Territories.
The riding covers the entire territory of Nunavut. It is the largest federal electoral district by land area in Canada,[3] and since the abolition of the Division of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, it is the second largest electoral district in the world after Yakutsk in Russia and the largest one represented by a single legislator.[4] It is also the world's northernmost single-member constituency, Greenland electing two members to the Danish Folketing and using proportional representation for its own Inatsisartut.
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2020
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2020
- ^ Madeline Redfern on Nunavut's electoral riding, largest in Canada, CBC, October 8, 2015
- ^ Durack: the electorate bigger than many countries still finds it hard to get noticed, The Guardian, 14 May 2016