The Northwest Territories general election, 1979 was the 14th general election in the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...

 history. The election took place on October 1, 1979.

Twenty Two members were elected to the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. In 1980 George Braden would become the first Premier of the Northwest Territories since Frederick Haultain

Frederick W. A. G. Haultain

Sir Frederick William Alpin Gordon Haultain was a lawyer and a long serving Canadian politician and judge. His career in provincial and territorial legislatures stretched into four decades...

 in 1905. However he was retro-actively given the title in 1994.

Election summary

Election summary	# of candidates		Popular vote
	Incumbent	New	#	%
Elected candidates	4	17	?	?
Acclaimed candidates	?	1
Defeated candidates
Total			12,586	100%
Turnout 62.1%

Members of the Legislative Assembly elected

For complete electoral history, see individual districts

9th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly 9th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly The 9th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly was the 16th assembly of the territorial government from 1979 to 1983. The Commissioner turned over Executive Council privileges allowing elected members to form the cabinet and become leader of government in 1980 for the first time since...
District	Member
Baffin Central	James Arreak James Arreak James Arreak is a territorial and municipal level politician in Canada. He has served as a member of both the Nunavut and Northwest Territories legislatures.Arreak is from Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada....
Baffin South	Joe Arlooktoo Joe Arlooktoo 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...
Central Arctic Central Arctic The Central Arctic was an electoral district of the Northwest Territories, Canada created in 1966 and abolished in 1983. The district consisted of Pelly Bay, Spence Bay, Gjoa Haven, Cambridge Bay, Bathurst Inlet, Bay Chimo, Coppermine and Holman. For the 1983 election Holman was moved to the...	Kane Tologanak Kane Tologanak Kane Tologanak is a Copper Inuit and former Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 to 1983.Tologanak was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. He served one term and did not return when the legislature was...
Foxe Basin	Mark Evaloarjuk Mark Evaloarjuk Mark Evaloarjuk, CM is a former northern Canadian business pioneer and politician. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1975 until 1983, and served as President of Arctic Cooperatives Ltd...
Frobisher Bay	Dennis Patterson Dennis Patterson Dennis Glen Patterson is a politician and lawyer. He served as MLA for Frobisher Bay and Iqaluit from 1978 to 1995, as NWT Minister of Education, Justice and Municipal Affairs and was chosen as the fifth consensus Government Leader of Northwest Territories, Canada from 1987 to 1991...
Great Slave East	Robert Sayine Robert Sayine Robert Gabriel Sayine is a former territorial level politician from and former Chief for the Deninu K-ue First Nation from 2001 to 2007 in Northwest Territories, Canada...
Hay River	Donald Morton Stewart Donald Morton Stewart Donald Morton Stewart is a former politician and civil servant from Northwest Territories, Canada.-Early life:Stewart worked for numerous northern airlines, and later joined the civil service as a Department of Fisheries employee....
High Arctic	Ludy Pudluk Ludy Pudluk Ludy Pudluk is a retired territorial level politician and former cabinet minister currently and current climate change activist residing in Resolute Nunavut, Canada....
Hudson Bay Hudson Bay (N.W.T. electoral district) Hudson Bay was a former territorial electoral district, that elected Members to the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1991. It was Abolished in 1987 when it became part of the Baffin South electoral district...	Moses Appaqaq Moses Appaqaq Moses Appaqaq Jr. is a soap stone carver former retail clerk, and a former territorial level politician from Sanikiluaq, Northwest Territories ....
Inuvik	Tom Butters Tom Butters Thomas H. "Tom" Butters, is a retired politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He had a long career as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1970 until 1991....
Keewatin North	William Noah William Noah William Noah is a former territorial level politician and artist. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1982....
Keewatin South	Tagak Curley Tagak Curley Tagak Curley is an Inuit leader, politician and businessman from Nunavut. As a prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut, Tagak is considered a living father of confederation in Canada...
Mackenzie Delta Mackenzie Delta (electoral district) Mackenzie Delta is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The district consists of Aklavik, Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic.-History:...	Richard Nerysoo Richard Nerysoo Richard Nerysoo is a territorial level politician from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, Canada. He was a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 to 1995 and briefly served as the third Premier and Speaker of the territories....
Mackenzie Great Bear	Peter Fraser Peter Fraser (N.W.T. politician) Peter "Pete" Fraser is a former politician and Métis leader and highway inspector from Northwest Territories, Canada...
Mackenzie-Laird	Nick Sibbeston Nick Sibbeston Nick G. Sibbeston is a Canadian Senator. He attended residential school in Fort Simpson, Providence, Inuvik, and Yellowknife, and the University of Alberta where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees.-Political career:...
Pine Point	Bruce McLaughlin Bruce McLaughlin Bruce McLaughlin is a Canadian politician. He served as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1991.McLaughlin was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. He won the new Pine Point electoral district...
Rae-Lac La Martre	James Wah-Shee James Wah-Shee James Wah-Shee is a former territorial level politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He served as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1987.In the 1970s Wah-Shee became President of the Dene Nation....
Slave River Slave River The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from Lake Athabasca in northeastern Alberta and empties into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories....	Arnold McCallum Arnold McCallum Arnold McCallum is a former territorial level politician. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories legislature from 1975 until 1987....
Western Arctic	Nellie Cournoyea Nellie Cournoyea Nellie Cournoyea, OC is a former Canadian politician, who served as the sixth Premier of the Northwest Territories from 1991 to 1995...
Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife Centre is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.It is one of seven districts that represent Yellowknife and the current Member of the Legislative Assembly is Robert Hawkins....	Robert H. MacQuarrie Robert H. MacQuarrie Robert Heath MacQuarrie was a politician and teacher from Northwest Territories, Canada.-Political career:...
Yellowknife North	George Braden George Braden George Braden was a politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Elected as "Government Leader", Braden would retroactively become the second Premier of the Northwest Territories, after a motion was passed in 1994 to change the official title.-Political career:Prior to seeking election as...
Yellowknife South Yellowknife South Yellowknife South is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.It is one of seven districts that represent Yellowknife and the current Member of the Legislative Assembly is Bob McLeod....	Lynda Sorenson Lynda Sorenson Lynda Sorenson is a politician in Northwest Territories, Canada.Lynda served one term in the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories she was elected in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election...