Alexander Sammurtok | |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Residence: | Rankin Inlet, Nunavut |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Rankin Inlet South |
Term Start1: | February 10, 2014 |
Term End1: | September 24, 2017 |
Predecessor1: | Riding Established |
Successor1: | Lorne Kusugak |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet |
Term Start2: | November 19, 2021[2] |
Predecessor2: | Cathy Towtongie |
Party: | non-partisan consensus government |
Alexander Sammurtok (born 1952 or 1953) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in a by-election on February 10, 2014.[3] Sammurtok first ran in the 2013 election, but finished in an exact tie with incumbent MLA Lorne Kusugak in the redistributed district of Rankin Inlet South.[4]
He is the nephew of Tom Sammurtok, who was the MLA for the neighbouring electoral district of Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet.[5] Both Alexander and Tom Sammurtok were defeated in the 2017 Nunavut general election, Alexander by Kusugak and Tom by Cathy Towtongie; in the 2021 Nunavut general election, Alexander Sammurtok ran in Rankin Inlet North and defeated Towtongie.[6]