Western Arctic

Western Arctic is an electoral district and senate division of the Canadian territory of the Northwest Territories. It is the only electoral district of the territory. It is represented in parliament by Ethel Blondin-Andrew. Its population is 37,360. (2001)

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Geography

The district includes all of the Northwest Territories.

History

The electoral district was created in 1976 from Northwest Territories.

Senate division

The Senate division of Northwest Territories follows the same boundaries as those of Western Arctic. In a rare expansion of the Senate, the current boundaries of this division were redrawn on April 1, 1999 when the Northwest Territories was split into Nunavut, creating the Senate division of Nunavut.

Members of Parliament

  1. Dave Nickerson, Prog. Cons (1979-1988)
  2. Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Liberal (1988-present)

Senators

Election results

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Canadian federal election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Ethel Blondin-Andrew 5,317
New Democratic Party Dennis Bevington 5,264
Conservative Sean Mandeville 2,314
Green Chris O'Brien 583
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Canadian federal election, 2000
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Ethel Blondin-Andrew 5,855
New Democratic Party Dennis Bevington 3,430
Canadian Alliance Fred Turner 2,273
Progressive Conservative Bruce McLaughlin 1,687
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Canadian federal election, 1997
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Ethel Blondin-Andrew 5,564
New Democratic Party Mary Beth Levan 2,579
Reform Mike Watt 1,966
Progressive Conservative Bob Dowdall 1,687
Independent Wally Firth 1,567
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Canadian federal election, 1993
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Ethel Blondin-Andrew 8,867
Reform Mansell Grey 2000
Progressive Conservative Martin Hanly 1,892
New Democratic Party Bill Schram 896
Green Chris O'Brien 325
Natural Law Lynn Taylor 213
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Canadian federal election, 1988
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Ethel Blondin 5,415
Progressive Conservative Dave Nickerson 3,657
New Democratic Party Wayne Cahill 3,207
Independent Cece McCauley 331
Independent Ernie Lennie 169
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Canadian federal election, 1984
Party Candidate Votes
Progressive Conservative Dave Nickerson 5,822
New Democratic Party Bertha Allen 3,538
Liberal Lynda Sorenson 3,264
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Canadian federal election, 1980
Party Candidate Votes
Progressive Conservative Dave Nickerson 3,556
New Democratic Party Wally Firth 3,537
Liberal Gary Boyd 3,425
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Canadian federal election, 1979
Party Candidate Votes
Progressive Conservative Dave Nickerson 4,058
Liberal David Searle 3,827
New Democratic Party Georges Erasmus 3,385
Independent Edward McRae 273
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