Question

A candidate got 47500 votes in an election and was defeated by his opponent by a margin of 5000 votes. If there were only two candidates and no votes were declared invalid, find the percentage of votes obtained by the winning candidate.

Answer 1

Let Candidate 1 And 2 be A and B Respectively,

A= 47500 votes

B defeated A by the margin of 5000 votes therefore,

B = Votes of A + 5000 = 52500 votes

Percentage of Votes Obtained by B = $\frac{Votes Obtained By B}{Total Votes}100$

Therefore Percentage of Votes obtained by Winning candidate = 52.5%