Election Based Questions

1. There were two candidates in an election. One got 41% of the total votes and lost by 5580
votes. Find the total votes.

2. Raju, Ravi and Ashok contested an election 5% votes polled were invalid. Raju got 30% of
the total votes. Ravi got 32% of the total votes. The winner got 5136 more votes than the
person who received the least number of votes. Find the total votes polled.

3. Three candidates were participating in an election. The person at third place got 20% of the
total votes while the difference between the votes of the winner and the first runer up was
20% of the total votes. If the difference between the votes of the first runner up and the
second runner up was 37000, how many votes did the winner receive?

4. In an election, there are three contestants A,B, and C. A got 35% of the total votes and B got
54% of the remaining votes. C got 5382 votes. By how many votes did the winner win from
his close contestant?

5. In an assembly election, a candidate got 60% of the total valid votes. 2% of the total votes
were declared invalid. If the total number of voters is 1,50,000, then find the number of valid
votes polled in favour of the candidate.

6. In an election between two contestants, 25% of the votes were invalid and one contestant
got 45% of the total valid votes. If the total number of votes was 16,00,000, the number of
valid votes that the winning contestant got, was?

7. In an election there were two candidates Ram Singh and Sohan Lal. The total no. of voters in
the constituency was 80,000 and 80% of the total votes were polled. If 60% of the polled
votes were cast in favour of Ram Singh, how many votes received by Sohan Lal?

8. In a corporation election, two candidates fought for the post of Mayor. One candidate got
40% of the valid votes. 23% of the votes were invalid. If the total votes were 21000, what is
the number of valid votes that the other candidate got?

9. In an election between two candidates, 80% of the eligible voters cast their votes. 5% of the
votes cast were declared invalid. A candidate got 10545 votes, which were 75% of the total
valid votes. Find the total number of eligible voters.

10. In an election between two candidates, 15% of the voters did not cast their votes and 10% of
the votes cast were declared invalid. The winning candidate got 8262 votes, which were 72%
of the total valid votes. What was the total number of valid votes?

11. In an election , a candidate secure 42% of the votes polled but is defeated by his only
opponent by a majority of 3080 votes, because of 1400 invalid votes. The percentage of
invalid votes is?
12. In an election 2 candidates participated . 20% votes were declared invalid and the winner
gets 70% of the valid votes and won by 9600 votes. Find total no. of voters.

13. In an election between two candidates, 10% of the total voters in a town did not cast their
votes. Furthermore, 15% of the votes polled were declared invalid. The winning candidate
got 58% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 4896 votes. The number of valid votes
were?

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14. In an election 20% voters did not vote. 12 % votes were declared invalid and winner gets
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60% of the valid votes and won by 5600 votes. Find the number of voters in the voting list.

15. In an election between two candidates, 3% did not cast their votes and 5% votes polled were
declared invalid. The winning candidate got 54% of the valid votes and won by a majority of
11058 votes. Find the number of voters who did not cast their votes.

16. In an election two candidates participated, 15% voters did not vote, 3900 votes declared
invalid and the winners gets 57% of the valid votes and wins by 1120 votes. Find the number
of voters in voting list?

17. In an election between two candidates, 12% of voters did not cast their votes. The winner by
obtaining 68% of the total votes defeated his contestant by 2880 votes. What was the total
number of voters who cast their votes in the election?

18. In the election 8% of the votes did not cast their voters. Two candidates contested the
election in which the winning candidate got 48% of the total votes and won election by 1100
votes. Find the total number of voters in the election, given that all the votes cast were valid?

19. In an election between two candidates, 20% of the registered voters did not cast their vote
and 40 votes were declared invalid. The winner received 42% of the regidtered votes and
was declared the winner by 112 votes. What was the number of registered voters?

20. In an election, 10% of the voters on the voters list did not cast their votes, and 60 voters
casted blank voters on ballot paper. There were only two candidates. The winner was
supported by 47% of all voters in the list and he got 308 votes more than his rival. The
number of voter on the list were?

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21. In an election 11 % voters did not cast their vote. In this election party A get 18% more
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casted vote than party B. If party A get 23600 votes, then find the total number of voters in
the voting list.

22. Three candidates P,Q, and R participated in an election. P got 35% more votes than Q, and
R got 15% more votes than Q. P overtook R by 2,412 votes. If 90% voters voted and no
invalid or illegal votes were cast then what was the number of voters in the voting list?
23. In an election, there were four candidates and 80% of the registered voters cast their vote.
One of the candidates received 30% of the casted votes while the other three candidates
received remaining casted votes in the proportion 1:2:3. If the winner of the election
received 2512 votes more than the candidate with the second highest votes, then the number
of registered voters was?

24. In an election there were three candidates A, B, and C. 10% of theeligible voters did not
vote. Out of those who voted, 45% voted for A, 35% voted for B and the remaining 20%
voted for C. 30% of the votes polled for A and 20% of the votes polled for B were later
deemed invalid, while all the votes polled for C were demmed valid. If A got 882 more valid
votes than B did, how many valid votes did C receive?