There seems to be two kinds of politicians: those who know they've won or lost and that's good enough, and those who know to the decimal point how strong their victory was, or tragic their loss was.

This article is for the latter.

I've gone through the Ontario returns for Election 2015, and here's how it rolls out, by the numbers.

First: a look at the candidates that won the most votes in Ontario. This isn’t a perfect measure, as voter populations vary somewhat from riding to riding. Still, it’s a strong indication of which candidates performed best for their party.

Looking across the entire province, the Liberal candidate who won the most votes out of all 121 ridings was Andrew Leslie, a retired lieutenant-general, in the eastern Ontario riding of Orleans with 46,542. It was enough to crush his Conservative opponent by almost 30 percentage points, but not enough to get into cabinet – one of the surprising omissions from last week.

For the Conservatives, Michael Chong captured more votes than anyone else in his party: 32,482 in Wellington-Halton Hills. That might be just the springboard to launch a potential leadership campaign.

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For the NDP, Paul Dewar attracted more votes than any other Ontario candidate: 29,098. And yet, it wasn't enough to win the seat. The second-generation politician, who'd been in office since 2006, lost to Catherine McKenna, now the environment and climate change minister, by more than 3,000 votes in Ottawa Centre.

Gord Miller, the former environmental commissioner of Ontario, garnered the most Green party votes with 7,909, still only good enough for fourth place in Guelph, about half a percentage point behind the NDP.

In Ontario's capital city, James Maloney won the most votes for the Liberals with 34,638 in Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Joe Oliver captured the most Conservative votes with 23,788 in Eglinton-Lawrence. But it still wasn't enough. The former finance minister lost to Marco Mendicino of the Liberals by almost 3,500 votes.

Same story for Peggy Nash, who garnered more votes in Toronto than any other New Democrat: 23,566. Nash still lost by 1,057 votes to the Liberals' Arif Virani in Parkdale-High Park.

Chris Tolley won 2,618 votes for the Greens in Toronto-Danforth, still nearly 3,000 votes shy of the third-place Conservative candidate.

In terms of percentages, former cabinet minister Judy Sgro came out on top. The Liberal MP since 1999 took 66.91 per cent of the votes in Humber River-Black Creek, but like Andrew Leslie, it wasn't enough to score a cabinet seat.

For the Conservatives, Thornhill's Peter Kent, the riding's MP since 2008, came out atop with 58.56 per cent of the votes.

The New Democrats' David Christopherson took the highest percentage of votes across Ontario for his party: 45.56 per cent in Hamilton Centre, just one of eight seats the NDP won in Ontario, and a percentage that's almost three times larger than the party earned province-wide.

For the Greens, it was Bruce Hyer's 13.8 per cent in Thunder Bay-Superior North that was best. But it was still only good enough for fourth place for the former MP who was elected as a New Democrat in 2008, but crossed the floor to sit with Elizabeth May and the Greens, doubling the size of her caucus.

In what was a disappointing election night in the “416” for anyone who wasn’t a Liberal, these three losing candidates stood out for performing the best: the Conservatives' Mark Adler with 43.99 per cent in York Centre; the NDP's Andrew Cash with 41.36 per cent in Davenport and Chris Tolley with 4.71 per cent for the Greens in Toronto-Danforth. All three had a higher percentage of the total vote than their parties. They still fell short.

If Judy Sgro's was the most dominant victory for the Liberals in Ontario, Bob Nault's and Mike Bossio's were the most razor-thin. Nault captured only 35.5 per cent of the votes in Kenora, edging out former Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton by 498 votes. The tightest Liberal win by percentage goes to Mike Bossio in Hastings-Lennox and Addington, who won by 0.45 per cent over the former MP, Daryl Kramp. That's a 225-vote margin.

For the Conservatives, Colin Carrie and Alex Nuttall must have been breathing a sigh of relief on election night. Carrie was re-elected with just 38.17 per cent of the votes in Oshawa; Nuttall, a rookie, won Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte by 0.17 percentage points over the Liberal candidate in a race that required an official recount. That's a margin of 86 votes.

For the NDP, Scott Duvall kept Hamilton Mountain in the party's win column, but just barely. Duvall garnered only 35.89 per cent of the votes, good for a 1,213-vote victory over the Liberals.

Psephology is the study of election results. If you made it this far, consider yourself a master psephologist.