Sentence examples for the second preference from inspiring English sources

He continued: "The second preference is probably to keep them and have them play out the season.

If no candidate does, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and the second preference of all those who voted for that candidate are reallocated.

We'd have way less negative campaigning because candidates would be trying to win the second preference votes of their rivals' voters.

"Reasonable" as the second preference might seem, McKaiser concedes in his essay, it is still "morally odious", still "the product of our racist past".

But this simply gives more space to Rousseff in the centre and assures her of the second preference votes of Marina Silva and the other leftwing candidates.

If no one wins a majority, the bottom placed candidate drops out and the second preference vote of their supporters is reallocated.

The second preferences of those candidates are then counted, and added to the totals of the top two.

None of these inquiries favoured a system where the second preferences of the least popular candidates have the most influence.

Perhaps, given that it is an alternative vote poll, she has had her eye on the second preferences of supporters of other candidates.

Under AV, if no candidate wins more than 50% of voters' first preferences, the least popular candidate is eliminated and the second preferences of those who voted for him are distributed.

David Miliband stayed ahead, narrowly, until the fourth round of counting, which redistributed the second preferences of people whose initial choice was Ed Balls.