Vote.java

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Vote
{
    //main method will collect data from the user and place it within arrays
    public static void main (String[] args){
	Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in);
	
	int row;
	int col;
	//int sum = 0;
	
	String[]candidates = new String[3]; 
	
	int[][] vote = new int[3][11];
	
	
	for(row = 0; row < vote.length ; row++){
	    //prompts the user for the next candidate
	    
	    System.out.println("Enter the names of the candidates:");
	    candidates[row] = sc.next();
	    System.out.println("Enter the votes for the candidate:");
	    
	    
	    for(col = 0; col < vote[row].length -1 ; col++){
		vote[row][col] = sc.nextInt();		
	       	
		
	    }
	    
	}
	
	theChart(vote,candidates);
	
    }
    //method "theChart" will do the number crunching and print out the results
    public static void theChart(int vote[][],String candidates[]){
	
	DecimalFormat round = new DecimalFormat("#.##");
	
	int a;
	int b = 0;	
	
	int i;
	int j = 0;
	
	double testpercent = 0;
	double percent = 0;
	int total = 0;
	
	double tempPer = 0; 
	double max = 0;
	
	String winner = "someone";


	// Total number of votes for all candidates
	for(a = 0; a < vote.length ; a++){
	    for(b = 0; b < vote[a].length -1 ; b++){
		total += vote[a][b];
	    }
	}
	

	//vote is /really/ "vote-tally"
	for(i = 0; i < vote.length ; i++){
	    System.out.printf(" " +  candidates[i]);
	    int sum = 0; //sum of total votes for this candidate

	    // Loop over the tally of votes for candidate i.
	    for(j = 0; j < vote[i].length -1 ; j++){
		sum += vote[i][j];
		System.out.print("    "+vote[i][j]); //print the votes 
	    }		
	    
	    percent = (double)sum/total*100; //"percent votes won total"
	    
	    //print "candidate bla got x%"...

	    //Ask yourself a question. What are we trying to do?  Is
	    // the percent of votes this candidate got higher than any
	    // other candidates perecnt?
	    //current greatest percent of votes < this candidates percent of the votes?
	    if(max < percent){
		max = percent;
		//winner = this candidate
		//winnner_row = i
	    }
	    
	    int k;
	    int h;

// 	    //what does this do?
// 	    for(h = 0; h < vote.length; h++){	
// 		if(percent == max){   
// 		    winner = candidates[h];    
// 		    break;
// 		}
// 	    }
	    //System.out.print("the sum of elements of row " + (i + 1) +" = " + sum +" the total of the sums = "+total+" \n");		   
	    System.out.print("the percent of votes =" +round.format(percent)+"%    " + max +"\n" );
	}
	System.out.println(winner);
    }
}