Doug Ford, Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath are vying to become the next premier of Ontario.

In the rush to get election ready, Ontario’s energized Progressive Conservatives are leading the nominations race.

Even after several riding nominations were overturned and a police investigation dogs another, the Tories are well ahead of the Liberals and NDP in nominations.

So far the PCs have nominated 98 candidates for the June 7 election. Compare that to the 80 candidates nominated so far by the Liberals and 60 by the NDP.

There are 124 ridings in the upcoming election — up from 107 ridings in 2014.

Wynne told reporters on Tuesday that the remaining 44 nominations her party needs to make is “not a huge number.”

“We’ll be ready for the election,” she said. “With a good strong candidate in every one of the 124 ridings.”

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The NDP are followed closely by the provincial Greens with 57 nominations. The Greens plan to have a full slate of candidates in the election.

So far the PCs also have six nomination meetings on the books. Failed leadership contenders Christine Elliott and Tanya Granic Allen will be among the people vying for those nominations.

The Liberals have two more meetings so far in April. The first is for incumbent Bob Chiarelli in Ottawa-West Nepean, the second is for incumbent MPP Steven Del Duca in Vaughan-Woodbridge.

Notable election nomination news

Last night the NDP nominated federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s brother Gurratan Singh as their candidate in the new riding of Brampton East. The riding includes neighbourhoods that were represented by Jagmeet when he was the MPP for Bramalea-Gore-Malton.

Next door in Brampton Centre, long-time Toronto councillor Giorgio Mammoliti has decided not to run after all for the Tory nomination in that riding. He had announced his planned entrance to provincial politics 13 days ago.

Mammoliti is a close ally of PC Leader Doug Ford.

Elliott, the former MPP for Whitby-Oshawa, will run for the PC nomination in Newmarket-Aurora. Elliott resigned from provincial politics after losing the party’s leadership race to Patrick Brown in 2015. She then re-entered politics in February to run to replace Brown.

Over the weekend QP Briefing reported that the candidate for the Liberal’s stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul’s would be handpicked by the premier. However, it then reported the decision was reversed. Neither the party nor Wynne would confirm whether that was in fact the case or why the decision was changed.

The party says so far no nomination candidates have been vetted for the riding and no date has been set for the nomination. The seat was left empty after former health minister Eric Hoskins abruptly quit in order to lead a federal advisory group on universal pharmacare.

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