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.
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.
One alumnus of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences established a scholarship with a first preference for those with great need and extreme vulnerability: undocumented students, including those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.
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.
If more students indicate a first preference for a partner school than slots available, there will be a random drawing for the number of available slots.
One student identified Aboriginal-focused practice as a first preference and three as a second preference for employment.
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.
This week the campaign Londoners on Bikes recommended a first preference vote for me and for the Greens on the London Assembly.
But while such voicelessness might feel uncomfortably unfamiliar for the Liberal voters of Australia's wealthiest electorate, such an outcome is the norm for the quarter of the Australian population who cast a first preference vote for independents and minor parties each election.
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.
