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In an election, Candidate A received 70% of the total votes cast and Candidate B received the remaining 30% of the total votes cast. Thus, Candidate A was declared the winner. Candidate B has disputed the results of the election saying that he is much more popular with the public than is Candidate A.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why Candidate B lost the election, despite being more popular than Candidate A?
(A) The public has been opposed to some of the policies of candidate B.
(B) Candidate A had recently been in the news because of his involvement in a corruption scandal.
(C) Most of candidate B’s supporters are factory workers whose work shift time clashes with the time of the day when election votes can be cast.
(D) The voting was conducted in an extremely fair manner with no incidents of cheating reported from anywhere.
(E) Candidate A spent more time canvassing for votes than did Candidate B.
Official Explanation
Answer: C
The discrepancy in the argument is the fact that even though B is much more popular with the public, he only got 30% of the votes in the election while his rival got the remaining 70% of the votes despite being less popular. C explains this fact by pointing out one reason because of which Candidate B’s supporters may not have been able to vote at al.
(A) Yet, Candidate B is more popular than Candidate A, so why didn’t he win?
(B) Even more surprising how candidate A won then.
(C) The correct answer.(D) This doesn’t explain the discrepancy.
(E) But Candidate B was more popular, then why didn’t he win?