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- ↑ Enuk Pauloosie quits Nunavut assembly seat
- ↑ Pauloosie resigns as Nunavut MLA
- ↑ Second woman joins Nunavut legislature
- ↑ "Nunavut general election 2004 Election Results" (PDF). Elections Nunavut. p. 41. Retrieved 2008-09-24.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "2008 Election Results". Elections Nunavut . Retrieved 2010-04-27.
- ↑ "2010 Nattilik by-electuin unofficial results" (PDF). Elections Nunavut. Retrieved 2010-04-27.