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Alexander Sammurtok
MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Rankin Inlet South
In office
February 10, 2014 – September 24, 2017
Preceded by Riding Established
Succeeded by Lorne Kusugak
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet
Assumed office
November 19, 2021
Preceded by Cathy Towtongie
Personal details
Born 1952 or 1953 (age 70–71)
Political party non-partisan
consensus government
Residences Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

Alexander Sammurtok (born 1952 or 1953) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in a by-election on February 10, 2014. Sammurtok first ran in the 2013 election, but finished in an exact tie with incumbent MLA Lorne Kusugak in the redistributed district of Rankin Inlet South.

He is the nephew of Tom Sammurtok, who was the MLA for the neighbouring electoral district of Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet. Both Alexander and Tom Sammurtok were defeated in the 2017 Nunavut general election, Alexander by Kusugak and Tom by Cathy Towtongie; in the 2021 Nunavut general election, Alexander Sammurtok ran in Rankin Inlet North and defeated Towtongie.

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