text: #PyPoll main page
  import os
  import csv
  
  poll_csv = os.path.join("Resources", "election_data.csv")
  
  with open(poll_csv, 'r') as csv_file:
      csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter = ",")
      csv_header = next(csv_file)
  
      #set up a dictionary: key is candidate, value is number of votes
      candidate_votes = {}
  
      #variable to count total votes
      totalvote = 0
      
      #going through rows, finding new candidates, incrementing total votes, incrementing individual votes
      for row in csv_reader:
          totalvote = totalvote + 1
          recognized = False
  #        for candidate in candidate_votes():
          if row[2] in candidate_votes.keys():
            #  if row[2] == candidate:
              candidate_votes[row[2]] += 1 #candidate_votes[key] means value of Khan
             # recognized = True
              
          #if recognized == False:
          else:
              #newcandidate = row[2]
              candidate_votes[row[2]] = 1 #both creates key and assigns 1 vote to it
  
      #calculating percentages and organizing individual results        
      individualresults = {}
      for candidate, votes in candidate_votes.items():
          percent_vote = votes/totalvote
          percent_formatted = "{:.2%}".format(percent_vote)
          candidate_name = candidate
          individualresults[candidate_name] = [percent_formatted, votes]
          
      # print(individualresults)
      # print(totalvote)
  
  output_path = os.path.join("Analysis", "results.txt")
  
  resultfile = open(output_path, "w") 
  
  toFile = f"Here are the candidates and vote totals: \n"
  print(toFile)
  resultfile.write(toFile + '\n')
  
  for candidate, resultnumbers in individualresults.items():
      tot = resultnumbers.pop()
      pct = resultnumbers.pop()
      resultfile.write(str(candidate))
      print(str(candidate))
      resultfile.write(" :  \n")
      resultfile.write("\tPercent of total: " + str(pct) + '\n\tActual Votes: ' + str(tot) + '\n\n')
      print(("\tPercent of total: " + str(pct) + '\n\tActual Votes: ' + str(tot) + '\n\n'))
  resultfile.write("\nTotal votes: " + str(totalvote))
  print("Total votes: " + str(totalvote))
  
  resultfile.close()