Question

An election was contested by 3 candidates.A got 345983 votes. His nearest rival, Candidate B won elections by 15967 votes. Candidate C got 279845 votes and 39823 votes were declared invalid. Find total number of votes polled.

Answer 1

1,027,601 votes polled.

Explanation:

We add up the votes:

345983

+345983

+ 15967 ( Note Candidate B had 15967 more votes than candidate A).

+279845

+ 39823

Total = 1,027,601 votes polled.