Majority Element (LeetCode 169) | Full solution with 4 different methods | Interview Essential

A majority candidate is defined as more than 50%. So in a given array of integers you have different methods to find it. Watch the video to learn 4 ways how you can start and ultimately arrive at an efficient solution. This video provides a perfect approach to attack this problem step by step with animations and visuals.
Actual problem on LeetCode: leetcode.com/problems/majorit...
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - Problem Statement and Description
02:48 - Brute Force Solution
04:27 - Solution by Sorting
07:14 - Using a HashTable
09:35 - Moore’s Voting Algorithm O(1) space
12:14 - Dry-run of Code
13:47 - Final Thoughts
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[@palanivelraju1981]

there's a small mistake in the dry run in moore's algo at last votes for majority 2 is 1,when majority reaches 3 the votes will be 0, so, majority will be updated in the next iteration so majority will be update as 1, please check, explanation is too good!!!

[@nikoo28]

the dry-run is mainly to understand the simplicity of the code. The exact working code is available in the description too. Mostly you should understand the approach and how you are solving the problem :)

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[@yash_14h]

Why there are only three types of numbers? In array

[@nikoo28]

you can have as many types.

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[@nikoo28]

haha..thanks a bunch

[@dineshkinibailoor340]

the voting method returns 1 for me for array {1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1 } so is that logic correct?
I think after your logic, we need to check again in the array if the count of the majority element is greater than (n/2) to be considered as the majority.
In my case, the majority is returned as 1 but 1 is repeated 2 times which is not greater than the expected majority which is (>3). here we can suspect 2 could be the majority but it's not because it is not repeated more than 3 times.

[@nikoo28]

Majority element means the element which occurs more than n/2 times. Your test case is invalid, as it does not have a majority element.
What you are talking about is the element occurring maximum number of times.

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there are some problems from that list that I have covered...adding new solutions every week :)

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[@abhishekchoudhary8023]

Can we do using 2 pointer

[@nikoo28]

Give me a pseudo code for your approach

[@mdsalik9374]

Can we get n/3 solution as well?

[@nikoo28]

do you have a link to the problem?

[@mdsalik9374]

What if there is no majority element? How to handle that?

[@nikoo28]

then it will be an entirely different problem. What are you looking to find?

[@foodandjournieswithme8788]

It gives error when nums=[6,5,5]

[@nikoo28]

What error are you getting? I tried the case again and it gives 5 as the output

[@foodandjournieswithme8788]

@@nikoo28 sir i got output as 6 in the same code

[@nikoo28]

@@foodandjournieswithme8788 check your test case and code again. Here is the verified output: github.com/nikoo28/java-solutions/blob/master/src/test/java/leetcode/easy/MajorityElementTest.java

[@MeghnaMukesh-hd5zk]

The mistake in the code is that the loop starts with i = 0, which causes the initial element to be counted twice. Specifically, when the loop starts, nums[0] is already assigned to the majority and the vote is set to 1. The loop then starts from i = 0, incrementing votes for the same element. The correct approach is to start the loop from i = 1.
for (int i = 1; i < nums.length; i++)

[@abhiguptamusic]

Wrong Code (Wrong understanding of mine)

[@nikoo28]

What part do you think is wrong?

[@abhiguptamusic]

@@nikoo28 first condition vote==0

[@nikoo28]

@@abhiguptamusic That condition is absolutely correct, whenever votes become =0 you need to update your majority candidate, and then increase the vote count. What error do you see in the condition? Did you try running the code?

[@abhiguptamusic]

@@nikoo28 the code is not working with another test cases

[@abhiguptamusic]

@@nikoo28 please try with these test case [1,1,2,3,4]