The Nain Inuit Community Government held an election yesterday for the position of the NICG Community Counselor.
Gina Dicker is the Officer Administrator for NICG.
She says the elections took place yesterday from 8am to 8pm.
Two candidates were running for the position, George Lyall and Duane Metcalfe.
Dicker says 789 people were eligible to cast their votes yesterday.
Here are the results of the polls;
George Lyall had 24 votes and Duane Metcalfe had 38 votes.
Duane Metcalfe is the newly elected Community Counsellor for Nain.
Metcalf will be sworn in on a later date, date yet to be determined.
Congratulations to Duane Metcalfe on becoming the newly elected Community Counsellor for Nain.