Question

In $2014$ , a total of 8 candidates contested elections in that constituency. The total eligible voters were $17.21$ lakhs. Of these $9.98$ lakh voters had cast their votes. The candidate of the Congress party, Mallikarjun Kharge secured about $5.07$ lakh votes. This was $50.82$ per cent of the total votes polled. But since he had secured more votes than anyone else, he was declared elected a Member of Parliament from Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency.

Election Result of Gulbarga constituency, GENERAL ELECTION LOK SABHA, 2014
CANDIDATE	PARTY	VOTES POLLED	% OF VOTES
D.G. Sagar	JD(S)	15690	1.57
Mallikarjun Kharge	INC	507193	50.82
Danni Mahadev B.	BSP	11428	1.14
Revunalk Belamagi	BJP	432460	43.33
B.T Lalitha Naik	AAAP	9074	0.91
S.M. Sharma	SUCI	4943	0.50
Shankar Jadhav	BHPP	2877	0.29
Ramu	IND	4085	0.41
None of the Above	NOTA	9888	0.99

a)What is the percentage of voters who had actually cast their votes?

b)To win an election is it necessary for a person to secure more than half the votes polled?

Accepted Answer

a) The percentage of voters who had cast their votes was $57.98$ per cent.

b) It is not necessary for a person to secure more than half the votes to win the election. Candidates who secured the highest number of votes in a constituency are declared elected.

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