The deadline has passed for candidates to apply for the March 26 Quebec election, and the DGE has a profile of the candidates (French only). Some numbers:

• 680 total candidates in 125 provincial ridings
• 125 Liberal candidates
• 125 PQ canidates
• 125 ADQ candidates (for now, anyway)
• 123 Québec solidaire candidates (pretty impressive for a new party – only Îles de la Madeleine and Dumont’s Rivière du Loup don’t have a QS candidate)
• 108 Green Party candidates
• 24 Marxist-Lenninist candidates
• 12 Christian Democratic Party candidates
• 9 Bloc Pot candidats (8 of whom are in the greater Montreal area)
• 26 independent candidates (including Andy Srougi)
  
• 3 candidates with no designation
• 9 candidates with the last name “Tremblay”