2016_election.py

import urllib
import json
import locale

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US')

state = "UT"

states = ['AK', 'AL', 'AR', 'AZ', 'CA', 'CO', 'CT', 'DC', 'DE', 'FL', 'GA', 'HI', 'IA', 'ID', 'IL', 'IN', 'KS', 
          'KY', 'LA', 'MA', 'MD', 'ME', 'MI', 'MN', 'MO', 'MS', 'MT', 'NC', 'ND', 'NE', 'NH', 'NJ', 'NM', 'NV', 
          'NY', 'OH', 'OK', 'OR', 'PA', 'RI', 'SC', 'SD', 'TN', 'TX', 'UT', 'VA', 'VT', 'WA', 'WI', 'WV', 'WY']

candidate_votes = {}
total_votes = 0

for state in states:
    url = "http://data.cnn.com/ELECTION/2016/%s/county/P_county.json" % state
    response = urllib.urlopen(url)
    data = json.loads(response.read())

    for county in data['counties']:
        for candidate in county['race']['candidates']:
            votes = int(candidate['votes'])
            name = candidate['lname']

            if not name in candidate_votes:
                candidate_votes[name] = 0

            candidate_votes[name] += votes
            total_votes += votes

for candidate, votes in candidate_votes.iteritems():
    print "%s: %s (%.2f%%)" % (candidate, locale.format("%d", votes, grouping=True), float(votes) / total_votes * 100)