Given: In an election A got 55% of the total votes and the remaining votes were casted to B. If 10,000 votes of A are given to B, there would have been a tie Formula used: A got a% votes and B got b% votes, difference in the votes = (a - b) % of Total votes Calculation: Let the total votes be 100x A Gets = 55x B gets = 45x Given that 10,000 votes of A given to B As per question ⇒ 55x – 10,000 = 45x + 10,000 ⇒ x = 2000 Total votes polled = 100x ⇒ 100 × 2000 = 200000 ∴ Total votes polled is 200000