In a poll of a representative sample of a province' s residents, the provincial capital was the city most often selected as the best place to live in that province
Since the capital is also the largest of that province' s many cities, the poll shows that most residents of that province generally prefer life in large cities to life in small cities
takes for granted that when people are polled for their preferences among cities, they tend to vote for the city that they think is the best place to live