In an election between 2 candidates, the winning candidate got 55% of the valid votes. 5% of the total votes were invalid. If the total number of votes polled were 10000, then how many votes were obtained by the losing candidate?

If the total number of votes polled were 10000.

5% of the total votes were invalid.

number of valid votes = 10000 of (100-5)%

= 10000 of 95%

= 9500

In an election between 2 candidates, the winning candidate got 55% of the valid votes. 

If the winning candidate got 55% of the valid votes, then (100-55)% of the valid votes were obtained by the losing candidate.

Votes were obtained by the losing candidate = 9500 of (100-55)%

= 9500 of 45%

= 4275