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You have been asked to write a program that can manage candidates for an upcoming election. This program needs to allow the user to enter candidates and then record votes as they come in and then calculate results and determine the winner.

This program will have three classes:

Candidate, Results and ElectionApp

Candidate Class: This class records the information for each candidate that is running for office.

Instance variables:

• first name
• last name
• office they are running for
• the party they represent
• total votes
• a boolean value to record if they won

Methods:

• Custom constructor that accepts first and last name, office and party
• Custom constructor that accepts an instance of another customer
• Getters for all instance variables and setters for total votes and the boolean variable
• toString: This method should output the details of a Candidate. See sample run
• equals: This method should determine if a Candidate passed in is equal to the current candidate. Two candidates are equal if their first and last name are the same and their parties are equal.

Results Class: This class stores all of the candidates in an array using aggregation.

     Constants:

• BLOCK_SIZE set to 3. This variable represents the size of an array and the size it increases by each time it is resized.

Instance variables:

• An array that stores Candidates
• An integer that stores the actual number of elements that are populated in the candidate array
• An array that stores Strings that represent each of the offices represented
• An integer value that stores the actual number of elements that are populated in the offices array

Methods:

• Constructor: Set a default constructor that does the following:
  • Instantiates the two arrays to BLOCK_SIZE.
  • Sets the two size variables to 0.
• Getters for the two sizes
• toString: This method should call the Candidate toString for each item in the array
• hasCandidate: This method accepts a Candidate and using a for loop, searches the candidate array for the received candidate. If the candidate is found, return true. Otherwise, return false.
• isCandidatesFull: This method returns true if the size of the array matches the length of the array. Otherwise, it returns false.
• isOfficeFull: This method returns true if the size of the array matches the length of the array. Otherwise, it returns false.
• addCandidate(): This method will prompt and accept user input to get the information needed to create a candidate.
  • It will use the hasCandidate method to ensure that a candidate is not on the list before being added to the list. If candidate is already on the list, return a message that reads, “Candidate already on ballot.”
  • If candidate is not on the list, then call the overloaded addCandidate method and pass in the candidate to be added.
• addCandidate(Candidate c): This private method accepts the candidate that will be added to the array.
  • First you must verify that the list is not full. If it is full, then you call the resizeCandidate method.
  • Create a new instance of candidate and add it to the candidates array.
  • Determine whether this is a new office by searching the office array for a match. If no match (or array is empty), add the office to the office array, but you must first determine if the array is full, and if so, resize it.
• addVotes: This method will prompt the user to enter votes for each candidate.
• determineWinner: This method will display a list of offices that currently have candidates and the user will choose which office they want to determine winner for. It will build a menu of offices, from the offices array and display it to the user. It will call the method createCandidateListByOffice and will pass the users input to the method.
• createCandidateListByOffice: This private method accepts user input and will build a temporary array that contains a list of all candidates that are running for the specific office the user has selected.
• findHighestVotes: This private method receives the temporary array and the size of the array from createCandidateListByOffice method.
  • If there is only one candidate running for that office, then the candidate must have at least one vote to win.
  • If there is more than one candidate, then it will search the temp array for the most votes for that office. Set the boolean won value for the winning candidate to true.
  • If the scores are equal, then there is no winner.
• displayWinners: This method outputs all candidates who have won their race.

ElectionApp:This is your main program. This class will display the menu and drive all the activities.

     Methods:

• Main Method: This method will instantiate any variables, call the output menu and then call methods in the results class based on the choices of the user. The program should continue until the user selects option 6. It should validate the user input to ensure that the numbers range from 1 to 6 and will repeat the menu if the option is not valid.
• outputMenu: This method displays the menu

Choose from the following options:

1- Add a candidate

2- Add votes

3- Determine winner

4- Display a list of candidates

5- Display winners

6- Exit

Design Requirements

• Create a class diagram for 2 classes – Candidate and Results

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public class Candidate {
String fname;
String lname;
String office;
String party;
int totalVotes;
boolean win;
Candidate(String fname, String lname, String office, String party){
this.fname = fname;
this.lname = lname;
this.office = office;
this.party = party;
}
Candidate(Candidate pass){
fname = pass.fname;
lname = pass.lname;
office = pass.office;
party = pass.party;
}

public String getFname() {
return fname;
}

public String getLname() {
return lname;
}
public String getOffice() {
return office;
}
public String getParty() {
return party;
}
public int getTotalVotes() {
return totalVotes;
}
public boolean isWin() {
return win;
}
public void setTotalVotes(int totalVotes) {
this.totalVotes = totalVotes;
}
public void setWin(boolean win) {
this.win = win;
}
public void tostring(){
System.out.println("Name : "+fname+" "+lname);
System.out.println("Office :"+office);
System.out.println("Party :"+party);
System.out.println("Total Votes : "+totalVotes);
System.out.println("Is Winner :"+win);
}
public boolean equal(Candidate pass){
if(fname == pass.fname && lname == pass.lname && party == pass.party){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
}
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Results {
int BLOCK_SIZE = 3;
Candidate[] candidates;
int numberof_candidates;
String[] offices;
int numberof_offices;
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
Results(){
candidates = new Candidate[BLOCK_SIZE];
offices = new String[BLOCK_SIZE];
numberof_candidates = 0;
numberof_offices = 0;
}

public int getNumberof_candidates() {
return numberof_candidates;
}

public int getNumberof_offices() {
return numberof_offices;
}
public void tostring(){
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE; i++){
candidates[i].tostring();
}
}
public boolean hasCandidate(Candidate pass){
boolean result = false;
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE; i++){
if(candidates[i] == pass){
result = true;
}
}
return result;
}
public boolean isCandidatesFull(){
if(candidates.length == BLOCK_SIZE){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
public void addCandidate(){
System.out.println("Enter candidate fame....");
String fname = input.next();
System.out.println("Enter candidate lname....");
String lname = input.next();
System.out.println("Enter candidate office...");
String office = input.next();
System.out.println("Enter candidate party....");
String party = input.next();
Candidate temp = new Candidate(fname,lname,office,party);
  
if(hasCandidate(temp) == true){
System.out.println("Candidate is already there....");
}
else{
addCandidate(temp);
}
  
}
public void addCandidate(Candidate pass){
if(isCandidatesFull() == false){
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE; i++){
if(candidates[i] == null){
candidates[i] = pass;
}
}
}
else{
resizeCandidate();
}
}
public void resizeCandidate(){
BLOCK_SIZE +=1;
Candidate[] temp =new Candidate[BLOCK_SIZE];
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE-1; i++){
temp[i] = candidates[i];
}
}
public void addVotes(){
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE; i++){
System.out.println("Enter votes for candidate "+(i+1));
int v = input.nextInt();
candidates[i].totalVotes = v;
}
}
public void determineWiner(){

int max = 0;
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE; i++){
if(candidates[i].totalVotes >0){
max = candidates[i].totalVotes;
}
}
for(int i=0; i<BLOCK_SIZE; i++){
if(candidates[i].totalVotes >max){
candidates[i].setWin(true);
}
else{
candidates[i].setWin(false);
}
}
}

}

import java.util.Scanner;

public class ElectionApp {
  
  
public void Menu(){
System.out.println("1- Add candidate");
System.out.println("2- Add Votes");
System.out.println("3- Determine Winner");
System.out.println("4- Display candidate list");
System.out.println("5- Display winner");
System.out.println("6- Exit");
System.out.println("Enter your choice");
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
int choice = input.nextInt();
if(choice<0 ||choice >6){
System.out.println("Enter correct choice");
choice = input.nextInt();
}
else{
Results r = new Results();
if(choice == 1){
  
r.addCandidate();
}
else if(choice == 2){
r.addVotes();
}
else if(choice == 3){
r.determineWiner();
}
else if(choice ==4){
r.tostring();
}
else if(choice == 5){
r.determineWiner();
}
else{
System.out.println("Exit");
}
}
}
}

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