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The last few posts explaining the rules was quite helpful for me.
If voters, as the majority did, voted for one of the big two as first choice, and working on the premise the big two are polar opposites and voters naturally didn't put their non first choice as second choice (when choosing from the big two) then their second choice becomes irrelevant if their first choice doesn't get 50% of the vote first time round.
It's only those voters who didn't vote for one of the big two as first choice but did as second choice that made the difference when the counting went to second preferences following the big two not getting 50% after the first vote count.