Cindy Woodhouse has been elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), securing victory as runner-up David Pratt conceded on Thursday, avoiding a seventh round of voting.
Woodhouse, the AFN’s regional chief for Manitoba, had 50.8 per cent support from 461 delegates registered to vote, while Pratt, first vice-chief for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan, trailed with 39.3 per cent support on a sixth ballot late Wednesday night at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa.
Under the assembly charter, a candidate must secure 60 per cent of the vote to win. Voting was forced to an end as the
