Candidates will also note that current Lib Dem voters prefer Boris to Ken by the large margin of 58%to42%2% (though respondents who say they voted Lib Dem at the 2010 general election prefer Ken by 53% to 47%.).
The most recent opinion poll, conducted by YouGov between 12 and 15 March, found that when offered a straight choice between Boris and Ken, 84% of Londoners who would prefer Labour to the Conservatives in a general election prefer Ken to Boris, whereas 94% of Conservative supporters were backing Boris too.
This year Osborne has been busy selling the government's large minority stake in Lloyds bank to claw back some of the losses dating back to its rescue in 2008, though he has abandoned plans for an open public sale before the election, preferring piecemeal offers to private City institutions.
Mr. Sankoh clearly did not believe in elections, preferring the military option.
Time after time, they have rejected the mainstream candidates in elections, preferring instead novelists, NGO workers or entertainers.
Many who vote Progressive Conservative in provincial elections prefer to send members of the even-more-conservative Canadian Alliance to the federal Parliament in Ottawa.
Numerous Serbs boycotted subsequent elections, preferring to support the parallel administrative structures organized by Serb groups and backed by Belgrade structures that the Kosovar government deemed illegal.
Back to normal Heavy baggage Reprints Related items Bangladesh's election: The tenacity of hopeDec 30th 2008Both BNP and AL governments have failed to hold local elections, preferring to grant MPs complete control over lucrative development spending in their fiefs.
Trump's threat to ISIS was, one suspects, phrased in the argot with which he feels most at home — our President being a bragging, swaggering New Yorker, albeit one who since the election has preferred to avoid New York City, which voted eighty per cent Democrat.
That the voters in a given election simply preferred the more conservative alternative has never even been a possibility to be considered.
