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Place of Birth: Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
About Dennis Bevington
- Dennis Fraser Bevington (born March 27, 1953) is a politician from the Northwest Territories, and was the member of Parliament for the riding of Northwest Territories from 2006 until 2015.
- Born in Fort Smith, he served as mayor from 1988 to 1997.
- During Bevington's term at the head of council, Fort Smith recognized the Chipewyan and Cree languages, making the town officially quadrilingual. A businessman, Bevington has long been active on environmental issues.
- In the 2000 federal election he ran as the NDP candidate for Western Arctic, but lost by 18% to incumbent Ethel Blondin-Andrew.
- Bevington ran again in the 2004 election, losing to Blondin-Andrew by only 53 votes, one of the closest races of the election.
- Bevington succeeded in unseating Blondin-Andrew in the 2006 election, with a margin of 1,158 votes. Bevington fought for years to have the name of the riding changed from Western Arctic to Northwest Territories.
- Since 2008, Bevington has tabled three private member's bills titled "An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Western Arctic", all dying on the order paper.
- The task was more difficult as the riding name had been specified directly in the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act, rather than in the representation orders governing other riding names.
- Bevington finally succeeded in having the name change incorporated into a bill that changed several other riding names in 2014.
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