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Steve Mapsalak

Steve Mapsalak
MLA
MLA for Aivilik
Assumed office
October 28, 2013
Preceded by Riding Established
MLA for Akulliq
In office
February 16, 2004 – October 27, 2008
Preceded by Ovide Alakannuark
Succeeded by John Ningark
Personal details
Born (1957-03-17) March 17, 1957 (age 60)
Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories (now Naujaat, Nunavut)
Political party non-partisan
consensus government

Steve Mapsalak (born March 17, 1957) is a Canadian politician, who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut.

He first won the Akulliq seat in the 2004 Nunavut election.

According to preliminary results, he was narrowly defeated by John Ningark in the 2008 election. A judicial recount was conducted, but resulted in Ningark and Mapsalak each receiving exactly 157 votes, thus forcing a new vote. In the revote on March 2, Ningark defeated Mapsalak by a margin of 193 to 179.

In the 2013 election, Mapsalak was re-elected to the legislature, defeating Johnny Ningeongan in the redistributed district of Aivilik.

Mapsalak was previously the mayor of Repulse Bay, and also the chair of the board of governors for Nunavut Arctic College.



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