Lori Idlout re-elected NDP MP for Nunavut
Liberal Mandy Gull-Masty won the seat for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou
Nunavut's NDP MP has held onto her seat for another term in Parliament.
As the final polls in Nunavut reported in Tuesday morning, Lori Idlout eked out a narrow victory.
Idlout finished with 2,945 votes, just 77 more than Liberal candidate Kilikvak Kabloona, who received 2,868 votes. Conservative candidate James Arreak trailed in third with 2,055 votes.
Kabloona conceded the race in a statement on Tuesday afternoon, congratulating Idlout on her re-election.
Polling stations across the territory's three time zones closed at 9:30 p.m. ET on Monday evening.
Arreak, Idlout and Kabloona were the only candidates in the territory. Brennan Wauters was named the Green Party candidate, but his name was not on the ballot come voting time.
Elections Canada says there are about 21,400 voters registered in the territory.
Nunavut voters historically don't favour a particular party.
In the 2019 federal election, Nunavut voted in an NDP representative for the first time since 1982. The NDP were elected again in 2021.
In 2015, Hunter Tootoo won the seat as a Liberal candidate. Before that, Leona Aglukkaq took the seat for the Conservatives in 2008 and 2011, and was named health minister and later minister of environment by former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Prior to that, Nancy Karetak-Lindell, originally of Arviat, held the seat for the Liberals for over a decade.
Nunavik
Liberal candidate Mandy Gull-Masty won Quebec's biggest riding, Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou.
After all polls reported in, Gully-Masty led with 12,578 votes, ahead of Bloc Québécois incumbent Sylvie Bérubé who had 10,381 votes. Conservative candidate Steve Corriveau finished with 6,851 votes and NDP candidate Thai Dillon Higashihara finished with 752 votes.
There are roughly 65,800 electors on the list for this riding.
However, many voters were not able to vote Monday as Elections Canada struggled to open voting stations. Voters in at least five Nunavik communities told CBC their polling stations closed after just a few hours, or didn't open at all.