predecessor successor birth_place imagesize party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end
ludy pudluk first member rebekah williams riding dissolved rebekah williams ron elliott igloolik 150px non-partisan consensus government mla nu mla for quttiktuq , nu for quttiktuq , nt mla for quttiktuq , january 24 , 1964 1995 1999 2004 levi barnabas
 1999 2000 2008
levi barnabas

levi barnabas -lrb- born january 24 , 1964 in igloolik , nunavut -rrb- is a canadian politician .
he was elected to the legislative assembly of northwest territories in 1995 and served until nunavut was created in 1999 .
barnabas served as the first speaker in the legislative assembly of nunavut .
in 1999 he was elected to the 1st legislative assembly of nunavut but had to resign in august 2000 after being convicted of sexual assault .
the conviction came at the same time as james arvaluk was charged with assault against his girl friend .
he pled guilty and resigned .
the two scandals rocked the new government , and caused a substantial drop in positive public opinion .
the resignation led to the first by-election in nunavut history .
barnabas ran in the december 2000 by-election but was defeated by rebekah williams .
he ran again in the 2004 nunavut election in a hotly contested race and defeated williams by doubling her vote count .
