Much thoughtful analysis has been written about yesterday’s Ontario provincial election, but you probably won’t get THIS anywhere else.

There were 769 candidates in 124 ridings, from ABDULSALAM, BAHIRA to ZUBERI, MUSTAFA, from Ajax to York-Simcoe. I salute them all. It takes a lot these days to put yourself out there. Thank you.

Most Votes Mike Schreiner, Green Party, Guelph 34,238
Fewest Votes: Jim Torma, Populist Ontario, Niagara West 71
Most Votes by Non-Winner Andrea Grebenc, Liberal, Burlington 24,078 (Lost by 40 votes.)

Most Common First Name: David 13
What About Steve, Stephen Stephanie, Steven Etc, What If You Added All Those Up: OK sure, 22

Most Common Last Name: (tie) SMITH and QURESHI

• Smith: Nori, Graydon, Dave, David, Laura
• Qureshi: Sarah, Sameer, Mansoor, Haseeb, Faiz

Shortest Riding Name: Ajax
Longest Riding Name: Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes

Most Candidates: (tie) 9 in each of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, Mississauga East—Cooksville, Sarnia—Lambton

Fewest Candidates: 3, Eglinton-Lawrence

Longest Candidate Name: PROTOPAPA, LAYLA MARIE-ANGELA (New Blue Party, Hamilton Mountain)
Shortest Candidate Name: (tie)

• FOX, RON (Liberal, Brantford—Brant)
• GAO, JAN (PC, Ottawa South)
• HSU, TED (Liberal, Kingston and the Islands)
• LIU, SUE (PC, Don valley North)

Party that came last in total votes, the Electoral Reform Party (with two candidates, in Waterloo, and Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas), total votes 240. I hope that’s not as symbolic as it sounds.

By winning the ridings of Kiiwetinoong, Mushkegowuk-James Bay, Thunder Bay-Superior North, Timiskaming-Cochrane and Nickel Belt, as shown here, the NDP won roughly 66% of the area of Ontario.

Get all the numbers here from Elections Ontario.