Sentence examples for preference count from inspiring English sources

"The full preference count is happening now and there could be some minor changes.

Prominent businesswoman Karen Howard appears to have picked up most of the conservative vote, with an impressive 26% of the first preference count.

The two candidates with the highest preference count - or three or more if some tied - would go through to be judged by the grassroots party, together with Goran Ivanisevic on a wild card.

In two of these seats, it appeared unclear as to who would win before this preference count: in Cowper, the race is between the Nationals' Luke Hartsuyker and independent Rob Oakeshott; and in Grey the race is between Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey and the Nick Xenophon Team's Andrea Broadfoot.

As no candidate achieved more than 50%, a second preference count was carried out, with Mr Gibbons getting 14,259 votes and Mr Starkie 15,233.

It's important to remember that where kitchen equipment is concerned, personal preference counts for a lot.

Personal preference counts for a lot but it can't obscure the truth that not all cuisines are created equal.

But in golf, personal preference counts, and the golfers' feel for the ball, and their trust in it, become essential factors.

Some people's second, third, or even lower preferences count for as much as other people's first preferences.

Voters can rank candidates, so second-preferences count if nobody wins a majority of first choices.

The referendum has been dismissed by Mrs. Kirchner, who has said that islanders are "colonial implants" from Britain whose preferences count for nothing against the fact that the islands, known as Las Malvinas to the Argentines, were "stripped" from Argentina by a British naval flotilla that expelled an Argentine settlement in 1833.