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

Answer:

1,027,601 votes polled.

Step-by-step 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.