Question

in an election between 2 candidates, one, candidate secured 47% of votes polled and lost by 12366 votes. find the total votes polled and the votes secured by the winning candidate.

Answer 1

By the given data we can conclude that one of the candidates got 47% votes and the other one got 53% votes.
Hence the the candidate lost by 6% of the total votes.
Let total number of votes be X.
Thus 
6% of X = 12366
X = (12366*100)/6
X = 206100

And since the winning candidate got 53% of the votes, the votes secured by the winning candidate are
53% of X = (53*206100)/100
Winning number of votes = 109233

Thus the total number of votes = 206100
The number of votes the winning candidate got = 109233