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The Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories, is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada. It is a unicameral elected body that creates and amends law in the Northwest Territories. Permanently located in Yellowknife since 1993, the assembly was founded in 1870 and became active in 1872 with the first appointments from the Government of Canada.
Piita Taqtu Irniq, formerly Peter Irniq, is an Inuk politician in Canada, who served as the second Commissioner of Nunavut from April 2000 to April 2005.
The 2007 Northwest Territories general election took place on October 1, 2007. It was the 21st in the history of the Northwest Territories of Canada. Nineteen members were elected to the Legislative Assembly from single member districts conducted under first-past-the-post voting system.
David Harry Searle is a retired politician and lawyer from Northwest Territories, Canada.
Jackson Lafferty is a territorial level politician in Canada.
Henry Zoe is a politician and convicted criminal from Northwest Territories, Canada.
Dave Ramsay is a Yellowknife businessman and politician.
Jane Mary "Ostler" Groenewegen is a territorial level politician from northern Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Charles Dent is a Canadian politician, is a former radio station manager, a volunteer fire fighter, a former municipal level politician and a long serving cabinet minister in the Northwest Territories territorial government.
Brian Wyndham Lewis is a former educator, deputy minister in the Northwest Territories government, elected politician and speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislature.
Brendan Bell is an American-born Canadian territorial level politician and former cabinet minister.
Ludy Pudluk was a Canadian territorial level politician and cabinet minister. A climate change activist, he resided in Resolute, Nunavut.
Silas Arngna'naaq is a retired politician from Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. He served as the Minister of Renewable Resources for the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Michael Alan Ballantyne was a former territorial level politician. He was a city councillor for Yellowknife City Council from 1978 and in 1979 became mayor until his resignation in 1983. He served as a Member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1983 to 1995.
Charlie Crow is a former disc jockey and Member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1991.
Kelvin Ng is a former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada who was elected in both the Nunavut Legislature and Northwest Territories Legislature.
Titus Allooloo is a business man and former territorial level politician from Nunavut, Canada. He served as a member and cabinet Minister of the Northwest Territories Legislature through two terms from 1987 until 1995.
Joe Arlooktoo is a northern Canadian artist, adept at soapstone and ivory carving, and a municipal and territorial-level politician who was a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1991. He is a current councillor of Kimmirut, Nunavut.
Thomas H. "Tom" Butters, was a politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He had a long career as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1970 until 1991.
The 2015 Northwest Territories general election was held November 23, 2015 and was the 23rd general election in Northwest Territories history. Under the territory's fixed election date legislation, the election was supposed to be held on October 5, 2015, however, since the federal election date of October 19, 2015, overlapped with that date, the N.W.T. government moved the date of the territorial election. The election selected 19 members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
