Or were they, as they were over here, pretty well decided but simply averse to disclosing their voting preference for fear of opprobrium or scorn or sheer nastiness?

The stations effectively voted their available program dollars in a series of voting preference rounds.

The voting preference of a neighbourhood tends to be formed by consensus, where people tend to vote with the general trend of the neighbourhood.

Voting preferences among students have always been out of kilter with the electorate at large butstudent voting patterns are taken seriously by parties.

Then, the results are presented with the candidates ranked in descending order of voting preferences.