I am using pandas to analyse some election results. I have a DF, Results, which has a row for each constituency and columns representing the votes for the various parties (over 100 of them):
In[60]: Results.columns
Out[60]:
Index(['Constituency', 'Region', 'Country', 'ID', 'Type', 'Electorate',
'Total', 'Unnamed: 9', '30-50', 'Above',
...
'WP', 'WRP', 'WVPTFP', 'Yorks', 'Young', 'Zeb', 'Party', 'Votes',
'Share', 'Turnout'],
dtype='object', length=147)
So...
In[63]: Results.head()
Out[63]:
Constituency Region Country ID Type \
PAID
1 Aberavon Wales Wales W07000049 County
2 Aberconwy Wales Wales W07000058 County
3 Aberdeen North Scotland Scotland S14000001 Burgh
4 Aberdeen South Scotland Scotland S14000002 Burgh
5 Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine Scotland Scotland S14000058 County
Electorate Total Unnamed: 9 30-50 Above ... WP WRP WVPTFP \
PAID ...
1 49821 31523 NaN NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN
2 45525 30148 NaN NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN
3 67745 43936 NaN NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN
4 68056 48551 NaN NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN
5 73445 55196 NaN NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN
Yorks Young Zeb Party Votes Share Turnout
PAID
1 NaN NaN NaN Lab 15416 0.489040 0.632725
2 NaN NaN NaN Con 12513 0.415052 0.662230
3 NaN NaN NaN SNP 24793 0.564298 0.648550
4 NaN NaN NaN SNP 20221 0.416490 0.713398
5 NaN NaN NaN SNP 22949 0.415773 0.751528
[5 rows x 147 columns]
The per-constituency results for each party are given in the columns Results.ix[:, 'Unnamed: 9': 'Zeb']
I can find the winning party (i.e. the party which polled highest number of votes) and the number of votes it polled using:
RawResults = Results.ix[:, 'Unnamed: 9': 'Zeb']
Results['Party'] = RawResults.idxmax(axis=1)
Results['Votes'] = RawResults.max(axis=1).astype(int)
But, I also need to know how many votes the second-place party got (and ideally its index/name). So is there any way in pandas to return the second highest value/index in a set of columns for each row?
To get the highest values of a column you can try nlargest() :
df['High'].nlargest(2)
The above will give you the 2 highest values of column High
.
You can also use nsmallest() to get the lowest values.