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Electorate, turnout, invalid votes and candidate's share: find the missing count or percent

This type of question, asked 12 times: 14 Jul 2023 S2, 17 Jul 2023 S3, 18 Jul 2023 S3, 24 Jul 2023 S2, 9 Sep 2024 S1, 10 Sep 2024 S3, 11 Sep 2024 S1, 17 Sep 2024 S2, 18 Sep 2024 S2, 23 Sep 2024 S2, 24 Sep 2024 S1, 13 Sep 2025 S2. All 12 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    14 Jul 2023 S2

    53
    In an election, 2% persons enrolled in the voter list did not participate and 500 votes were invalid. Two candidates A and B fought the election, and A defeated B by 200 votes. If 43% of the persons enrolled in the voter list casted their votes in favour of A, then what is the number of the total casted votes?

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  2. Question 2

    17 Jul 2023 S3

    61
    In a constituency, 90%90\% of the total number of people on the electoral roll cast their votes during an election. 15%15\% of the votes cast were declared invalid. Jeeta secured 60%60\% of the valid votes. If Jeeta secured 91,800 valid votes, what was the total number of people on the electoral roll?

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  3. Question 3

    18 Jul 2023 S3

    67
    In a constituency, 85% of the total number of people on the electoral roll cast their votes during an election. 10% of the votes cast were declared invalid. If there were 3,00,000 people on the electoral roll, and Dharam secured 1,37,700 valid votes, what percentage of the total number of valid votes did Dharam secure?

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  4. Question 4

    24 Jul 2023 S2

    73
    In an election between two candidates, 10% of the voters in the voter list did not cast their vote, whereas 10% of the votes cast were found to be invalid. The winning candidate got 56% of the valid votes and won the election by a margin of 1,458 votes. What is the total number of voters enrolled in the voter list?

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  5. Question 5

    9 Sep 2024 S1

    62
    In an election between two candidates, y%y\% of the voters did not vote. 10%10\% of the votes cast were declared invalid, while all the valid votes were cast in favour of either of the two candidates. The candidate who got 59.375%59.375\% of the valid votes cast was declared elected by 24842484 votes. If the number of people eligible to vote in that election was 16,00016,000, what is the value of yy?

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  6. Question 6

    10 Sep 2024 S3

    60
    In an election between Sunita and Mamata, 85%85\% of voters cast their votes but 2%2\% of votes were invalid. If Sunita got 64,974 votes which is 78%78\% of valid votes, then the total number of voters enrolled in the election was:

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  7. Question 7

    11 Sep 2024 S1

    63
    In an election between two candidates P and Q, P got 78%78\% of the total valid votes. If the total votes of the electorate were 75,60,000, then what was the number of valid votes that Q got if 10%10\% of the voters did not cast their vote and 15%15\% of the votes polled were declared invalid?

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  8. Question 8

    17 Sep 2024 S2

    72
    Two candidates contested in an election. 80% of the voters cast their votes, out of which 5% of the polled votes were invalid. The winning candidate got 70% of valid votes and won by a majority of 36,480 votes. Find the total number of voters.

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  9. Question 9

    18 Sep 2024 S2

    67
    In an election between two candidates, the one who gets 88%88\% of the votes is elected by a majority of 684 votes. What is the total number of votes polled? (all polled votes are valid)

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  10. Question 10

    23 Sep 2024 S2

    75
    In an election between two candidates, P received 42% of the valid votes and Q won by 45,360 votes. 20% people did not cast their vote. If 10% of the votes cast were found invalid, what is the total number of votes registered in the poll booth?

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  11. Question 11

    24 Sep 2024 S1

    62
    In an election between two candidates, 80%80\% of the voters cast their votes, out of which 4%4\% votes were declared invalid. A candidate got 15,360 votes which were 80%80\% of the valid votes. Find the total number of votes.

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  12. Question 12

    13 Sep 2025 S2

    59
    In an election, 80%80\% of eligible voters cast their votes. Of these votes, 5%5\% were declared invalid. If a winning candidate received 11,400 votes, which accounted for 60%60\% of the total valid votes, what was the total number of eligible voters enrolled in that election?

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