In an election only two candidates contested. A candidate secured 70% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 172 votes. Find the total number of valid votes?

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1. In an election between two candidates. One got 55 % of the total valid votes. 20 % of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500. The number of valid votes that the other candidate got was_________?

   A. 2700
   B. 2900
   C. 3000
   D. 3100

2. In an election between two candidates A and B, the number of valid votes received by A exceeds those received by B by 15% of the total number of votes polled. If 20% of the votes polled were invalid and a total of 8720 votes were polled, then how many valid votes did B get?

   A. 2160
   B. 2420
   C. 2834
   D. 3150
   E. None of these

3. 10 % of the electorate did not cast their votes in an election between two candidates. 10 % of the votes polled were found invalid. The successful candidate got 54 % of the valid votes and won by a majority of 1620 votes. The number of voters enrolled on the voter’s list was___________?

   A. 25000
   B. 33000
   C. 35000
   D. 40000

4. In an election between two candidates 75 % of the voters cast their votes. Out of which 2 % of the voters were declared invalid. A candidate got 9261 votes which were 75 % of the total valid votes. The total number of voters enrolled in that election was:__________?

   A. 10000
   B. 16400
   C. 16800
   D. 18000

5. There were two candidates in an election. Winner candidate received 62% of votes and won the election by 288 votes. Find the number of votes casted to the winning candidate?

   A. 456
   B. 744
   C. 912
   D. 1200

6. In a college election, a candidate secured 62 % of the votes and is elected by a majority of 144 votes. The total number of votes polled is:________?

   A. 600
   B. 800
   C. 925
   D. 1200

7. Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?

   A. 57%
   B. 60%
   C. 65%
   D. 90%

8. In an election between two candidates, the candidate who gets 30 % of the votes polled is defeated by 15000 votes. The number of votes polled by the winning candidate is:________?

   A. 11250
   B. 15000
   C. 26250
   D. 37500

9. 8 % of the voters in an election did not cast their votes in the election, there were only two candidates. The winner by obtaining 48 % of the total votes defeated his contestant by 1100 votes. The total number of voters in the election was_________?

   A. 21000
   B. 2200
   C. 23500
   D. 27500

10. Three candidates in an election received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?

    A. 11. 6 %
    B. 60 %
    C. 76. 4 %
    D. None of these