Sentence examples for a second preference from inspiring English sources

We Londoners have two votes for mayor, a first and a second preference.

Supplementary Vote Voters mark a second preference, also using a cross, in a second column on the ballot paper.

It will, in other words, end up being of equal value to him in his head-to-head with Johnson – just as a second preference for Johnson will be to him in relation to Livingstone.

Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, will, over the weekend, be writing to his members who are signed up reiterating the union's official position, which is a vote for Corbyn and a second preference for Burnham.

Then no deal would be "a lot of voters' second preference and emerge the winner", because anyone wanting to remain would be forced to choose one of the leave options as a second preference (or leave that blank).

A second preference will be given to graduates from other Chinese engineering universities if no students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University are currently enrolled or have been offered admission.

In this system, voters pick a first preference, but can also choose a second.

In those three polls he scored a first preference of only 39 or 37 points.

She is one of roughly 134,000 who gave Hanson a first preference vote in Queensland.

But the new international court gives the country of the accused, not the country making the accusation, the right to hold the trial itself as a first preference.

This week the campaign Londoners on Bikes recommended a first preference vote for me and for the Greens on the London Assembly.