Nunavut is a federal electoral district in Nunavut, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. Before 1997, it was known as Nunatsiaq, and was one of two electoral districts in Northwest Territories.

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Nunavut

Nunavut electoral district
Nunavut riding in relation to Canada
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Lori Idlout New Democratic
District created	1976
First contested	1979
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)[1]	36,858
Electors (2021)	18,665
Area (km²)[2]	1,836,993.78
Pop. density (per km²)	0.02
Census division(s)	Kitikmeot Region, Keewatin Region, Baffin Region
Census subdivision(s)	Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Arviat, Baker Lake, Igloolik, Cambridge Bay, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Kinngait, Kugluktuk

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The riding covers the entire territory of Nunavut. It is the largest federal electoral district by land area in Canada,^[3] and since the abolition of the Division of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, it is the second largest electoral district in the world after Yakutsk in Russia and the largest one represented by a single legislator.^[4] It is also the world's northernmost single-member constituency, Greenland electing two members to the Danish Folketing and using proportional representation for its own Inatsisartut.

According to the 2021 Canadian census; 2013 representation^[5]

• Ethnic groups: 85.8% Indigenous, 10.6% White, 1.5% Black
• Languages: 52.2% Inuktitut, 33% English, 1.4% French
• Religions: 73.5% Christian (39.1% Anglican, 22.5% Catholic, 4% Pentecostal), 24.9% No religion
• Median income (2020): $37,600
• Average income (2020): $57,200

The Nunavut riding holds a host of demographic records:

• Lowest median age:^[6] 24.1 years
• Highest percentage of Indigenous peoples:^[7] 85.0%
• Highest percentage of Inuit: 84.0%
• Highest percentage of a non-official language as mother tongue:^[8] 69.4%
• Highest percentage of an Indigenous language as mother tongue: 68.0%
• Highest percentage of Inuktitut as mother tongue: 66.8%
• Highest percentage of an Indigenous language as home language:^[9] 53.0%
• Highest percentage of Inuktitut as home language: 51.9%

The riding was created in 1976 as "Nunatsiaq" from parts of the Northwest Territories riding. It was renamed "Nunavut" in 1996.

In 1999, the district's boundaries were redefined in the Nunavut Act, the law governing the creation of Nunavut as a separate jurisdiction from the Northwest Territories.

The boundaries of this riding were not changed in the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Riding associations are the local branches of political parties:

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada