Tally Votes with defaultdict

Easy ⏱ 8 min 77% acceptance ★★★★☆ 4.3

Write a function tally_votes(ballots) that takes a list of candidate-name strings and returns a collections.defaultdict(int) mapping each candidate to how many votes (occurrences) they received.

Examples

Example 1

Input

tally_votes(['A', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'B', 'A'])

Output

{'A': 3, 'B': 2, 'C': 1}

Explanation

Count each candidate name.

Constraints

Must use `collections.defaultdict`.

Topics

Dictionariesdefaultdict

Companies

AmazonRazorpay

Hints

Hint 1

`from collections import defaultdict`; `tally = defaultdict(int)`; then `tally[name] += 1` for each ballot.

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