Create majority_vote.py

Author: LasVegasCoder

majority_vote.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Created on Thu Nov 16 21:04:20 2017
+
+@author: Prince Adeyemi
+"""
+
+import random
+
+
+def majority_vote(votes):
+    """Calculate and select majority vote from a list of votes"""
+    
+    vote_counts = {}
+    for vote in votes:
+        if vote in vote_counts:
+            vote_counts[vote] += 1
+        else:
+            vote_counts[vote] =  1
+            
+    #Choose a winner
+    winner = []
+    max_count = max(vote_counts.values())
+    #loop over vote and count
+    for vote, count in vote_counts.items():
+        if count == max_count:ype
+            winner.append(vote)
+            
+    return random.choice(winner)