by acclamation in a July 2020 by-election Netsilik, which covers Taloyoak and Kugaaruk. The seat is held by Emiliano Qirngnuq. Former districts include Akulliq, which covered Kugaaruk and Naujaat in the Kivalliq Region. It was the ony electoral district in Nunavut to cross two regions. Nattilik, which covered Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak. The previous incumbent was the former federal Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq. In 2007 at their AGM, Bob Lyall, a board member of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, suggested the formation of a political party called the Bloc Kitikmeot to run in the next general election and to advocate for a separate Kitikmeot Territory. Bobby Lyall, along with his brother Kitikmeot Corporation president, Charlie Lyall and delegates Martina and Connie Kapolak, argued that the Government of Nunavut had spent most of the infrastructure money available from the federal government in the Baffin Region (Qikiqtaaluk Region). However, the party was not formed and consequently no members ran for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut which continues to run as a consensus government. Communities Hamlets Cambridge Bay population: 1,766; Gjoa Haven population: 1,324 Kugaaruk population: 933 Kugluktuk population: 1,491 Taloyoak population: 1029 Other Bathurst Inlet population: 0 Umingmaktok population: 5 Kitikmeot, Unorganized population: 0 Protected areas Ovayok Territorial Park Northwest Passage Territorial Park Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Kitikmeot Region had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. The Kitikmeot Region also doubles as one of three census divisions in Nunavut, the others being the Kivalliq (also known as the Keewatin) and the Qikiqtaaluk (also known as the Baffin) regions. Of the three the Kitikmeot is the smallest in size being smaller than the Kivalliq. It has the smallest population and is the least densely populated of the three. The population is predominantly Inuit (90.0%) with 0.7% other aboriginal peoples, 0.3% North American Indian and 0.4% Métis, and 9.3% non-Aboriginals. Notes References Further reading Bromley, Robert Graham H., and Bruce D. McLean. [ Raptor Surveys in the Kitikmeot and Baffin Regions, Northwest Territories, 1983 and 1984]. Yellowknife, NWT: Dept. of Renewable Resources, Govt. of the Northwest