predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
ovide alakannuark first member john ningark repulse bay , nunavut non-partisan consensus government mla for akulliq mla for aivilik 17 march 1957 2004 2013 steve mapsalak
 2008 steve mapsalak
steve mapsalak

steve mapsalak -lrb- born march 17 , 1957 -rrb- is a canadian politician , who has served as a member of the legislative assembly -lrb- mla -rrb- 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 .
