user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: How many Liberal candidates have a Liberal leader of pearson, and a % of popular vote of 40.2%, and Seats won smaller than 131?
Columns: ['Year', 'Seats in House', 'Liberal candidates', 'Seats won', 'Seat Change', 'Popular vote', '% of popular vote', 'Result', 'Liberal leader']
Types: ['text', 'real', 'real', 'real', 'text', 'real', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: ['1867', 180.0, 65.0, 62.0, '+62', 60818.0, '22.7%', 'Cons. majority', 'Brown']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT COUNT("Liberal candidates") FROM "Table" WHERE "Liberal leader" = 'pearson' AND "% of popular vote" = '40.2%' AND "Seats won" < 131.0;