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Election votes as percents: total votes polled or one candidate's votes

This type of question, asked 2 times: 3 Mar 2023 Tier II, 26 Oct 2023 Tier II. All 2 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    3 Mar 2023 Tier II

    29
    Two candidates contested an election.One of them got 64% of the votes and won by 434 votes.What was the total number of votes polled?

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  2. Question 2

    26 Oct 2023 Tier II

    24
    Hari, Kamal and Lalit contested an election in which 6050 votes were polled and none of the votes were invalid. Kamal got 42% more votes than the total votes obtained by Hari and Lalit together. If Lalit obtained only 8% of the total polled votes, find the number of votes obtained by Hari.

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