8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly

The 8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly was the 15th assembly of the territorial government. The assembly lasted from 1975 until 1979. This was the first all elected council of the Northwest Territories since the 5th North West Assembly from 1902 to 1905. In honor of this achievement the Council renamed themselves the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories despite still being officially called the Council of the Northwest Territories under the Northwest Territories Act.

8th Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Established	1975
Disbanded	1979
Seats	15
Elections
Last election	1975
Meeting place
Yellowknife

Members of the Legislative Assembly

8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly

District	Member	First elected / previously elected
Central Arctic	William Lyall	1975
Central Baffin	Ipeelee Kilabuk	1975
Foxe Basin	Mark Evaloarjuk	1975
Great Slave	James Wah-Shee	1975
	Richard D. Whitford (1976)	1976
Hay River	Donald Morton Stewart	1967, 1975
High Arctic	Ludy Pudluk	1975
Inuvik	Tom Butters	1970
Keewatin	Peter Irniq	1975
Mackenzie Great Bear	George Barnaby	1975
	Peter Fraser (1976)	1976
Mackenzie-Laird	William Lafferty	1975
Slave River	Arnold McCallum	1975
South Baffin	Bryan Pearson	1970
Western Arctic	John Steen	1975
Yellowknife North	Dave Nickerson	1975
Yellowknife South	David Searle	1967

By-elections

At least two by-elections occurred in this assembly.

District	Former member	Replacement	Reason	Date
Great Slave	James Wah-Shee	Richard D. Whitford	Resignation of James Wah-Shee over lack of discussion on Dene issues.[1]	1976
Mackenzie Great Bear	George Barnaby	Peter Fraser	Resignation of George Barnaby over lack of discussion on Dene issues.[1]	1976