Liberals lagging well behind other parties on nominating candidates as Canada election looms [Video]

With a federal election call expected any day now, the Liberal party has only nominated about half of the candidates it would need to have a full slate on the ballot even as their polling numbers have been jump-started following their recent leadership race.

There will be 343 ridings contested in the upcoming vote and the Conservatives have nominated candidates in 275 of them so far. The NDP has 217 candidates and the Green Party has 208.

As of Tuesday afternoon, a Liberal party spokesperson said the party had nominated 185 candidates, but later clarified it was 184. About 110 of the nominated candidates so far are incumbents, with more than two dozen Liberals choosing not to run again.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has not yet announced where he will run himself, is widely expected to trigger an early election in the coming weeks or days.

The Liberal party …