In an election which was contested by two candidates, X and Y, 4000 votes were polled. Suppose that every vote was polled in favour of either of the two candidates. Candidate Y got 40% of vote polled and was defeated. What was the margin of defeat ?

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Q: 108 (CAPF/2017)
In an election which was contested by two candidates, X and Y, 4000 votes were polled. Suppose that every vote was polled in favour of either of the two candidates. Candidate Y got 40% of vote polled and was defeated. What was the margin of defeat ?

question_subject: 

Polity

question_exam: 

CAPF

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In this election, there were two candidates: X and Y. A total of 4000 votes were polled. The question states that every vote was in favor of one of the two candidates. Candidate Y received 40% of the votes polled.

To find the margin of defeat, we need to calculate the number of votes that candidate Y received. Since they received 40% of the total votes polled, we can find this by multiplying 4000 by 0.40:

4000 x 0.40 = 1600

Therefore, candidate Y received 1600 votes in the election.

From this information, we can determine the margin of defeat by subtracting the number of votes received by candidate Y from the total number of votes polled:

4000 - 1600 = 2400

So, the margin of defeat is 2400 votes.

However, the correct answer provided is option 2, which states that the margin of defeat is 800 votes. This is incorrect. The correct margin of defeat is 2400 votes.