Question

in an election between two candidates the candidate getting 60% of the votes polled is elected by a majority of 14 000 votes. the number of votes polled by the winning candidate is

Answer 1

Let the total number of voters be 'X'

Now the winner has got 60% of X
Which is equal to (60/100)*X

the winner has got 0.6X number of votes

Now the loser has 0.4X number of votes.

the difference between the votes gained by the winner and loser is 14000

that is,

0.6X-0.4X = 14000

X= 14000/0.2

X= 70000

the winner has 0.6X number of votes

therefore the total votes gained by winning candidate is 0.6*14000= 42000 votes

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