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In an election between two candidates, a candidate who gets 64% of the votes polled is elected by a majority of 252 votes. What is the total number of votes polled?
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Statement I: The candidate who was defeated got votes from 31.28% of the total voters in the list.
Statement II: The number of valid votes was 15500.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes. If 20% of the votes were invalid and the total number of votes was 9,000, what was the number of valid votes the other candidate got?
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In an election, the winner got 70% of the votes and won by 1600 votes. If no votes were declared invalid, the number of votes polled in the election is
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In an election, Candidate A received 45% of the total votes, and Candidate B received 30% of the total votes.
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In an election between two candidates A and B, 15% of the voters did not cast their votes, 20% of the votes cast were declared invalid. The winning candidate got 8262 votes, which were 54% of the total valid votes.
Statement I: The candidate who was defeated got votes from 31.28% of the total voters in the list.
Statement II: The number of valid votes was 15500.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
