There will be familiar names on the ballot for the federal byelection to replace the late Gord Brown as MP for Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes.

Mary Jean McFall, who ran for the Liberals in the 2014 election, will again be the party’s standard-bearer in the byelection, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must call by the end of the month.

In the last election, McFall ran second, collecting 22,888 votes to Brown’s 26,738.

McFall will be acclaimed as the Liberal candidate at a nomination meeting on Thursday at FlavorPhil’s Family Restaurant in Brockville.

The lawyer, former city councillor and chief of staff to the federal agriculture minister was the “only qualified nomination contestant to have come forward and submit the appropriate application” to run in the byelection, the Liberals announced on Monday.

For the New Democrats, Michelle Taylor, who ran for the party in the recent provincial election, will be the candidate in the federal byelection. She ran second to incumbent Progressive Conservative Steve Clark, who won handily with 61 per cent of the vote.

Taylor, a stay-at-home mother of four, champion of rural schools and a former first responder who has a degree in forestry, was appointed by the party last month.

“I am running because I believe many in our riding are feeling let down by the governing Liberals who promised so much and have delivered little, and by the Conservative Party with scarce concrete plans of their own, plunging further and further ahead in a right-wing direction that seriously calls into question their ability to represent all Canadians,” Taylor said after accepting the nomination.

McFall and Taylor will face Conservative Michael Barrett, who defeated four other party contenders in a hard-fought nomination battle in August.

Barrett, a councillor in Edwardsburgh/Cardinal, was the local party president before winning his party’s nod in the riding that has voted Tory since 2004.

The seat was declared vacant in May following the death of Brown, the popular MP who was elected three times to represent Leeds-Grenville, then later Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes.

Trudeau has until Oct. 31 to call the byelection, which must have at least a 36-day campaign.

Most observers expect the prime minister to announce the date soon to avoid a vote during the busy Christmas season.