In an election for mayor, 85,034 people voted for carl Green and 67,952 people voted for maria Lewis. By how many votes did Carl Green win the election?

So, do get the answer, you have to find out who got more of the votes, either Carl Green or Maria Lewis. Once you have found out who has more votes, you take the bigger number and subtract the smaller number from it. If you get a negative number, or a number below 0, you have unfortunately have the wrong answer for the problem

Carl Green won the election by 15,082 votes!