#VoteBike - 2012 London Mayoral elections

Second preferences have just the same weight as first preferences, the only difference is you have to trust other people to get your 2nd preference into the final 2 with their first preferences for your 2nd to count.

2nd preferences only have the same weight if your first choice isn't in the top 2.

My response was explaining what would have happened if the people who voted Green 1st pref and Ken 2nd did so the other way around. As I said, in that case, all of those green 2nd preferences would have counted for nothing.