2017 Nunavut general election

2017 Nunavut general election

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22 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
Turnout	63.3%[1](7.0pp)
Results by electoral district, shaded by winners' vote share. As Nunavut elections are on a non-partisan basis, all candidates run as independents. Results by electoral district, showing whether the incumbent candidate was re-elected, defeated, or didn’t run again.
Premier before election Peter Taptuna Premier after election Paul Quassa

The 2017 Nunavut general election was held on October 30, 2017 to return the members of the 5th Nunavut Legislature.^[2] The fifth general election held since the creation of the territory in 1999, it was the first election held under Nunavut's new fixed election dates law, which requires elections to be held no more than four years after the prior election.^[3]

Unlike most federal or provincial elections in Canada, elections to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut are conducted on a non-partisan consensus government model, in which all candidates run as independents rather than being nominated by political parties. The premier and executive council are then selected internally by the MLAs at the first special sitting of the legislature.