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The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 61001Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

Territoires du Nord-Ouest

Northwest Territories is the federal riding for the whole territory. Rebecca Alty (Liberal) has represented Northwest Territories since the 2025 election. Rebecca Alty (Liberal) held Northwest Territories for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 3,342 votes (20.2 points), with 53.5% of the vote. Kimberly Fairman (Conservative) was second with 33.3%, on a turnout of 54.9% of 30,497 electors. Member as of .

Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River · LiberalFort McMurray—Cold Lake · ConservativeNunavut · LiberalPeace River—Westlock · ConservativePrince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies · ConservativeYukon · LiberalNorthwest Territories
Fig. 1 — Northwest Territories on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on . Open it on the board →

Who represents Northwest Territories

LRebecca Alty
Rebecca Alty's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Rebecca Alty

Member of Parliament for Northwest Territories

Liberal

MP since · first term

  • Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations

124 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Indigenous Affairs.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Northwest Territories, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Northwest Territories, April 28, 2025Of the 16,549 valid votes, Rebecca Alty (Liberal) took 53.5%, Kimberly Fairman (Conservative) 33.3%, Kelvin Kotchilea (New Democratic) 12.2% and Rainbow Eyes (Green) 1.0%.2025Turnout 54.9% of 30,497 electorsRebecca AltyLiberal53.5% · 8,8553,342 votes ahead · 20.2 ptsKimberly FairmanConservative33.3% · 5,513Kelvin KotchileaNew Democratic12.2% · 2,011Rainbow EyesGreen1.0% · 170050%100%
Share of the valid votes by candidate, Northwest Territories, April 28, 2025Of the 16,549 valid votes, Rebecca Alty (Liberal) took 53.5%, Kimberly Fairman (Conservative) 33.3%, Kelvin Kotchilea (New Democratic) 12.2% and Rainbow Eyes (Green) 1.0%.2025Turnout 54.9% of 30,497 electorsRebecca AltyLiberal53.5% · 8,8553,342 votes ahead · 20.2 ptsKimberly FairmanConservative33.3% · 5,513Kelvin KotchileaNew Democratic12.2% · 2,011Rainbow EyesGreen1.0% · 170050%100%
Shares of the 16,549 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rebecca AltyLiberal8,85553.5%
Kimberly FairmanConservative5,51333.3%
Kelvin KotchileaNew Democratic2,01112.2%
Rainbow EyesGreen1701.0%

Rebecca Alty (Liberal) won Northwest Territories on with 8,855 votes, 53.5% of the 16,549 valid votes. Kimberly Fairman (Conservative) was second with 5,513 (33.3%), 3,342 votes and 20.2 points behind.

Of the 16,549 valid votes, Rebecca Alty (Liberal) took 53.5%, Kimberly Fairman (Conservative) 33.3%, Kelvin Kotchilea (New Democratic) 12.2% and Rainbow Eyes (Green) 1.0%. Turnout was 54.9% of 30,497 electors: 16,748 ballots cast, 16,549 of them valid, for 4 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 15.7 (37.8% to 53.5%), the Conservatives up 19.0 (14.3% to 33.3%), the New Democrats down 19.8 (32.0% to 12.2%) and the Greens down 1.3 (2.3% to 1.0%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: no party has held it

The party first in Northwest Territories at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

  1. 2004†Liberal39.5%by 0.4 points over the New Democrats
  2. 2006changed handsNew Democratic42.2%by 7.2 points over the Liberals
  3. 2008New Democratic41.5%by 3.8 points over the Conservatives
  4. 2011New Democratic45.8%by 13.7 points over the Conservatives
  5. 2015changed handsLiberal48.3%by 17.8 points over the New Democrats
  6. 2019Liberal39.7%by 14.2 points over the Conservatives
  7. 2021Liberal37.8%by 5.8 points over the New Democrats
  8. 2025Liberal53.5%by 20.2 points over the Conservatives
Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran. † The first two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.
The figures
YearFirstShareSecondMargin (pts)Basis
2004†Liberal39.5%New Democratic0.4carried, our estimate
2006New Democratic42.2%Liberal7.2carried, our estimate
2008New Democratic41.5%Conservative3.8carried, our estimate
2011New Democratic45.8%Conservative13.7carried, our estimate
2015Liberal48.3%New Democratic17.8carried, our estimate
2019Liberal39.7%Conservative14.2carried, our estimate
2021Liberal37.8%New Democratic5.8transposed by Elections Canada
2025Liberal53.5%Conservative20.2official result

The Liberals were first at five of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the NDP at three; it changed hands twice. In 2025 the Liberals took 53.5% of the vote here, 20.3 points above their average of 33.2% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (39.5%), 2015 (48.3%), 2019 (39.7%), 2021 (37.8%) and 2025 (53.5%) and the NDP in 2006 (42.2%), 2008 (41.5%) and 2011 (45.8%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 160 of the 343 ridings have no degree. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result. In 2004 the carried top two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

Before 2025
  • 2021 Liberal · Michael McLeod, by 829 votes (5.9 pts)
  • 2019 Liberal · Michael McLeod, by 2,310 votes (14.2 pts)
  • 2015 Liberal · Michael McLeod, by 3,389 votes (17.8 pts)

In the old Northwest Territories on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Northwest Territories lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Northwest Territories is

Population
41,0702021 census
Area
2,484,319km²
Density
0.02people per km²
Electors
30,497on the 2025 lists
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
  • 2nd-largest by area in Canada: 2,484,319 km² · 2nd of 3432nd
    2nd-largest by area in Canada
    2,484,319 km² · 2nd of 343
  • 7th-lowest turnout in Canada: 54.9% of 30,497 electors voted · 7th of 3437th
    7th-lowest turnout in Canada
    54.9% of 30,497 electors voted · 7th of 343
  • 9th-least populous in Canada: 41,070 people, 2021 census · 9th of 3439th
    9th-least populous in Canada
    41,070 people, 2021 census · 9th of 343
  • Median total household income is $127,000 — about 1.5 times the median riding's $84,000.
    highestlowest8th highest of 343
  • Median age is 35.6 — a little lower than the median riding's 41.6.
    highestlowest26th lowest of 343
  • Share of households that own their home is 53.5% — about 75 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
    highestlowest56th lowest of 343
  • Share with French as a mother tongue is 2.8% — about 1.7 times the median riding's 1.6%.
    highestlowest118th highest of 343
  • Share who are immigrants is 10.3% — about 60 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
    highestlowest119th lowest of 343
  • Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26.4% — a little lower than the median riding's 28.2%.
    highestlowest159th lowest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Essentially no. Today's Northwest Territories covers almost exactly the same ground as the Northwest Territories riding it replaced, and 100% of its 2025 electors lived in it.

How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

CandidatePartyVotes%2021±
Rebecca AltyLiberal8,85553.5%37.8%+15.7
Kimberly FairmanConservative5,51333.3%14.3%+19.0
Kelvin KotchileaNew Democratic2,01112.2%32.0%−19.8
Rainbow EyesGreen1701.0%2.3%−1.3
The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.

IIIHow close was it, really

Third place vs. the margin
2,011 votes
New Democratic took fewer than the 3,342-vote margin.
Election-day polls won by others
15 of 90
2 polls ended in an exact tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (73) · ■ won by another party (15) · ▨ tied (2).
Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 1,672 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 10.1% of the 16,549 valid votes, 10.1 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Liberal8,855
Conservative5,513
Still Liberal by 3,342 votes. Actual margin: 3,342.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 62.3% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 51.2%, the Conservatives 34.0% and the New Democrats 13.6%; in advance and special ballots, 57.3%, 32.3% and 9.7%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Northwest Territories, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Northwest Territories, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 51.2%, the Conservatives 34.0% and the New Democrats 13.6%; in advance and special ballots, 57.3%, 32.3% and 9.7%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal51.2%57.3%+6.1 ptsConservative34.0%32.3%−1.7 ptsNew Democratic13.6%9.7%−3.9 pts050%100%
Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Northwest Territories, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 51.2%, the Conservatives 34.0% and the New Democrats 13.6%; in advance and special ballots, 57.3%, 32.3% and 9.7%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal51.2%57.3%+6.1 ptsConservative34.0%32.3%−1.7 ptsNew Democratic13.6%9.7%−3.9 pts050%100%
Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
PartyElection dayAdvance and specialGap
Liberal51.2%57.3%+6.1
Conservative34.0%32.3%−1.7
New Democratic13.6%9.7%−3.9
An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Northwest Territories and its 6 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Northwest Territories — federal riding profile and 2025 results." The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/northwest-territories/ Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.