Find winner of an election where votes are represented as candidate names

Given an array of names of candidates in an election. A candidate name in array represents a vote casted to the candidate. Print the name of candidates received Max vote. If there is tie, print lexicographically smaller name.

Examples:

Input :  votes[] = {"john", "johnny", "jackie", 
                    "johnny", "john", "jackie", 
                    "jamie", "jamie", "john",
                    "johnny", "jamie", "johnny", 
                    "john"};
Output : John
We have four Candidates with name as 'John', 
'Johnny', 'jamie', 'jackie'. The candidates
John and Johny get maximum votes. Since John
is alphabetically smaller, we print it.



A simple solution is to run two loops and count occurrences of every word. Time complexity of this solution is O(n * n * MAX_WORD_LEN).

An efficient solution is to use Hashing. We insert all votes in a hash map and keep track of counts of different names. Finally we traverse the map and print the person with maximum votes.

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#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
  
int main()
{
    string votes[] = { "john", "johnny", "jackie", 
                         "johnny", "john", "jackie", 
                         "jamie", "jamie", "john", 
                         "johnny", "jamie", "johnny", 
                         "john" };
      
        // map to store count of frequency of each name
        map<string,int>mp;
          
        // storing the frequency of names in the map
        for(string s:votes)
        {
            mp[s]++;
        }
          
        int maxx = -1;
        string answer="";
          
        // Iterating through the map to find the name with highest frequency
        for(auto it=mp.begin();it!=mp.end();it++)
        {
            if(it->second>maxx)
            {
                maxx=it->second;
                answer=it->first;
            }
  
        }
          
        cout<<answer<<endl;
  
    return 0;
}

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// Java program to find winner in an election. 


import java.util.*; 


  


public class ElectoralVotingBallot 


{ 


    /* We have four Candidates with name as 'John', 


      'Johnny', 'jamie', 'jackie'. 


       The votes in String array are as per the 


       votes casted. Print the name of candidates 


       received Max vote. */


    public static void findWinner(String votes[]) 


    { 


        // Insert all votes in a hashmap 


        Map<String,Integer> map = 


                    new HashMap<String, Integer>(); 


        for (String str : votes) 


        { 


            if (map.keySet().contains(str)) 


                map.put(str, map.get(str) + 1); 


            else


                map.put(str, 1); 


        } 


  


        // Traverse through map to find the candidate 


        // with maximum votes. 


        int maxValueInMap = 0; 


        String winner = ""; 


        for (Map.Entry<String,Integer> entry : map.entrySet()) 


        { 


            String key  = entry.getKey(); 


            Integer val = entry.getValue(); 


            if (val > maxValueInMap) 


            { 


                maxValueInMap = val; 


                winner = key; 


            } 


  


            // If there is a tie, pick lexicographically 


            // smaller.  


            else if (val == maxValueInMap && 


                winner.compareTo(key) > 0) 


                winner = key; 


        } 


        System.out.println(winner); 


    } 


  


    // Driver code 


    public static void main(String[] args) 


    { 


       String[] votes = { "john", "johnny", "jackie", 


                         "johnny", "john", "jackie", 


                         "jamie", "jamie", "john", 


                         "johnny", "jamie", "johnny", 


                         "john" }; 


  


       findWinner(votes); 


    } 


} 



















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Output:


John



Another efficient solution is to use Trie. Please refer most frequent word in an array of strings.


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