voting preferences?

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Can someone explain to me the way voting preferences work, I've never really understood it in a precise way. Primary/secondary issues, how does that break down? A liberal clerk pop that is secularized/free trade will vote for a liberal secular protectionist part in preference to a liberal pluralistic free trade party, or what?

I.E does the primary issue determine that said POP MUST vote for a party with that issue, but between two parties sharing that policy, its vote will be cast determined on its secondary issue? Is that an accurate run down of how this system works?

Thanks for any clarification you can give me.

 

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POPs vote primarily for a party that matches the ideology of their class : craftsmen and clerks are more liberal, and can tend to socialist/communist or anarcho-liberal, aristocrats, clergymen, labourers and farmers are usually conservative/reactionary, capitalists are usually liberal, officers are usually reactionnary, soldiers can be conservatives or socialists etc.

The more a POPs consciousness rises, the more it will tend to vote according to this class pattern. If its consciousness falls, it will start voting more and more for the party currently in place, or random party that doesn't represent its interests.

When choosing between populism and establishement, you can choose populism, which will change the determining factor from class to separate issues. With populism, changing the main primary and secundary issues will become a strategic decision as it will strongly affect the way your POPs vote. The two events during elections which allow you to change POPs's state of mind in some issues will be very important. However, this is mostly important for small nations, as this effect is limited to a state at most. Large countries with many states (USA, Russia, Brazil.) will not benefit much from populism.

 

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When choosing between populism and establishement, you can choose populism, which will change the determining factor from class to separate issues. With populism, changing the main primary and secundary issues will become a strategic decision as it will strongly affect the way your POPs vote. The two events during elections which allow you to change POPs's state of mind in some issues will be very important. However, this is mostly important for small nations, as this effect is limited to a state at most. Large countries with many states (USA, Russia, Brazil.) will not benefit much from populism.

I know all that, I want to know precisely how it effects their votes, as I explained in my OP.

edit: My intention is to, once I understand the determination of votes for party based on primary/secondary issues [ignoring ideology for a moment] breakdown the amount of votes for x party on a state by state basis.