Question

Two candidate contested an election.Out of the total votes polled 5235 votes were declared invalid.The winning candidate received 150678 votes and won by a margin of 23789 votes.How many votes were received by the defeated candidate?How many votes were polled in total?

please give the correct mathod

Answer 1

150678-23789=126889 ( number of votes the defeated candidate got )

total number of votes =number of votes the winning candidate got +number of

votes the losing candidate got

total number of votes =150678+126889=277567