Question

In an election between two candidates, one candidate gets 60% of the total valid votes. 15% of the votes are declared invalid. If the total votes are 120000, then find the total number of valid votes received by the second candidate.
1. 61200
2. 40800
3. 42000
4. 60000

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 40800

Given:

Total valid votes = 120000

First candidates got valid vote = 60%

Declared invalid votes = 15%

Calculation:

Invalid votes = 15%

Now, we can say that,

Valid votes = 85%

The number of valid votes = 85% of 120000 = 102000      ----(i)

The valid votes got by one candidate = 60%

Now we can say that,

The valid votes got by the second candidate = 40%

From equation (1)

The number of valid votes got by the second candidate,

⇒ 40% of 102000

⇒ 40800

∴ The number of votes got by second candidates is 40800.