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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Challenge 074
+#
+# TASK #1 > Majority Element
+# Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar
+# You are given an array of integers of size $N.
+#
+# Write a script to find the majority element. If none found then print -1.
+#
+# Majority element in the list is the one that appears more than
+# floor(size_of_list/2).
+#
+# Example 1
+# Input: @A = (1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2)
+# Output: 2, as 2 appears 4 times in the list which is more than floor(7/2).
+#
+# Example 2
+# Input: @A = (1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 5)
+# Output: -1 as none of the elements appears more than floor(6/2).
+
+import sys
+
+def majority_elem(a):
+    # count instances of each element, get max
+    count = {}
+    max_count = 0
+    max_elem = None
+    for x in a:
+        if x in count:
+            count[x] += 1
+        else:
+            count[x] = 1
+
+        if count[x] > max_count:
+            max_count, max_elem = count[x], x
+
+    # check if majority
+    if max_count > int(len(a)/2):
+        return max_elem
+    else:
+        return -1
+
+a = [int(x) for x in sys.argv[1:]]
+print(majority_elem(a))