The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 62001Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the federal riding for the whole territory. Lori Idlout (first elected to the House in 2021) represents Nunavut. Lori Idlout was elected a New Democrat and has sat as a Liberal since 2026-03-11. Lori Idlout (NDP) held Nunavut for the New Democrats in the 2025 election by 41 votes (0.6 points), with 37.3% of the vote. Kilikvak Kabloona (Liberal) was second with 36.7%, on a turnout of 35.4% of 21,912 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Nunavut on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on 2026-11-01. Open it on the board →

Who represents Nunavut

Lori Idlout's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Lori Idlout

Member of Parliament for Nunavut

Liberal since 2026-03-11 · elected in 2025 as a New Democrat

MP since 2021-09-20 · 2 terms

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee
National Defence committee

141 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: New Democratic hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Nunavut, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 7,657 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Lori Idlout	New Democratic	2,853	37.3%
Kilikvak Kabloona	Liberal	2,812	36.7%
James T. Arreak	Conservative	1,992	26.0%

Lori Idlout (New Democratic) won Nunavut on April 28, 2025 with 2,853 votes, 37.3% of the 7,657 valid votes. Kilikvak Kabloona (Liberal) was second with 2,812 (36.7%), 41 votes and 0.6 points behind.

Of the 7,657 valid votes, Lori Idlout (New Democratic) took 37.3%, Kilikvak Kabloona (Liberal) 36.7% and James T. Arreak (Conservative) 26.0%. Turnout was 35.4% of 21,912 electors: 7,747 ballots cast, 7,657 of them valid, for 3 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the New Democrats are down 9.9 (47.2% to 37.3%), the Liberals up 1.2 (35.5% to 36.7%) and the Conservatives up 9.7 (16.3% to 26.0%), 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 Nunavut at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004Liberal51.3%by 35.6 points over the independents
2006Liberal40.0%by 10.9 points over the Conservatives
2008changed handsConservative34.9%by 5.8 points over the Liberals
2011Conservative49.9%by 21.2 points over the Liberals
2015changed handsLiberal47.1%by 20.5 points over the New Democrats
2019changed handsNew Democratic40.8%by 9.9 points over the Liberals
2021New Democratic47.2%by 11.7 points over the Liberals
2025New Democratic37.3%by 0.6 points over the Liberals

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 figures

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	Liberal	51.3%	Independent	35.6	carried, our estimate
2006	Liberal	40.0%	Conservative	10.9	carried, our estimate
2008	Conservative	34.9%	Liberal	5.8	carried, our estimate
2011	Conservative	49.9%	Liberal	21.2	carried, our estimate
2015	Liberal	47.1%	New Democratic	20.5	carried, our estimate
2019	New Democratic	40.8%	Liberal	9.9	carried, our estimate
2021	New Democratic	47.2%	Liberal	11.7	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	New Democratic	37.3%	Liberal	0.6	official result

The Liberals were first at three of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the NDP at three and the Conservatives at two; it changed hands three times. In 2025 the NDP took 37.3% of the vote here, 9.6 points above their average of 27.7% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (51.3%), 2006 (40.0%) and 2015 (47.1%), the Conservatives in 2008 (34.9%) and 2011 (49.9%) and the NDP in 2019 (40.8%), 2021 (47.2%) and 2025 (37.3%), 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.

Before 2025

2021 New Democratic · Lori Idlout, by 849 votes (11.8 pts)
2019 New Democratic · Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, by 943 votes (9.9 pts)
2015 Liberal · Hunter Tootoo, by 2,448 votes (20.5 pts)

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

What kind of place Nunavut is

Population: 36,8602021 census
Area: 4,739,817km²
Density: 0.01people per km²
Electors: 21,912on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

Lowest turnout in Canada
35.4% of 21,912 electors voted · 1st of 343
Largest by area in Canada
4,739,817 km² · 1st of 343
Youngest median age
Median age 25.6, the lowest of 343 (Median age, 2021 census)

Median age is 25.6 — about 62 percent of the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest1st lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 19.2% — about 27 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest1st lowest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 14.1% — about 50 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest16th lowest of 343
Median total household income is $118,000 — about 1.4 times the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest23rd highest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 3.2% — about 18 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest33rd lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.4% — a little lower than the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest152nd 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 Nunavut covers almost exactly the same ground as the Nunavut 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	2021	±
Lori Idlout	New Democratic	2,853	37.3%	47.2%	−9.9
Kilikvak Kabloona	Liberal	2,812	36.7%	35.5%	+1.2
James T. Arreak	Conservative	1,992	26.0%	16.3%	+9.7

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

1,992 votes

Conservative took more than the 41-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.

Election-day polls won by others

10 of 25

1 poll ended in an exact tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the New Democrats (14) · ■ won by another party (10) · ▨ tied (1).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 21 voters switching from New Democratic to Liberal — 0.3% of the 7,657 valid votes, 0.3 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 0042

New Democratic2,853

Liberal2,812

Still New Democratic by 41 votes. Actual margin: 41.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 75.8% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 35.2%, the New Democrats 37.6% and the Conservatives 27.2%; in advance and special ballots, 41.5%, 36.2% and 22.3%, in that order.

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

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

Party	Election day	Advance and special	Gap
Liberal	35.2%	41.5%	+6.3
New Democratic	37.6%	36.2%	−1.4
Conservative	27.2%	22.3%	−4.9

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 — Nunavut and its 6 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Nunavut — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/nunavut/
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.