Sentence examples for a second preference for from inspiring English sources

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.

One student identified Aboriginal-focused practice as a first preference and three as a second preference for employment.

Seven responders expressed a first preference for the first treatment to be administered on day 8 of the ART cycle (around the time of scan and bloods), five expressed a second preference for day 3 (start of stimulation), and seven expressed a third preference for day 12 (trigger injection).

The ordinary voters Bagehot encountered this week on the campaign trail wanted to talk about something more down to earth: the public's experience of democracy, and whether AV might possibly improve it.In west Dorset, an AV supporter, Rikey Austin, talked of yearning to cast a first preference for the Greens after years of tactically voting Lib Dem.

Updated at 1.31pm BST 12.20pm BST Over at Comment is free, Dave Hill explains why casting a first-preference for Jenny Jones, the Green candidate, for London mayor, will not be a wasted vote and will not help Boris Johnson win.

Yet the supplementary vote mechanism means electors can take their heads and their hearts with them to the ballot box; they can give their first-preference vote to a favourite candidate who they know will not win, almost certainly safe in the knowledge that a second preference cast for Goldsmith or Khan will be just as valuable to either man in the second, decisive counting round.

[ 7, 13] But an interesting finding in our study was that the General Practitioner was a close second preference for initial consultation in case of symptoms suggestive of psychiatric disorder.

Not only did he emulate his predecessor in that year and in 2010 by taking more than 50% of first preferences under the supplementary vote system, thereby again leaving no need for a second preference run-off, he also increased the Labour slice of the pie by 8.5%.

This is of course an extreme example that implies that ultimately there are only two choices: Corybn and anyone-but-Corybn, and that everyone that doesn't give a first preference to Corbyn votes for one of the two main challengers, and gives a second preference to the other, in order to defeat the frontrunner.

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