UK General Election 2019 Bar Chart

uk_general_election_2019.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


"""
UK General Election 2019
Version: 1.1
Python 3.8
Date created: 28.12.2019
"""

import requests
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pprint import pprint

URL = "https://xern-statistic.de/api/election"


def fetch_json_data(json_url):
    # Connect to the server
    try:
        response = requests.get(json_url)
    except OSError as e:
        print("Error: {0}".format(e))
        return None

    # Check if the status code is OK
    # and receive data
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("Status 200, OK")
        return response.json()
    else:
        print("JSON data request not successfull!")
        return None


json_data = fetch_json_data(URL)
pprint(json_data)

parties = list(json_data.keys())
print(parties)

seats = list(json_data.values())
print(seats)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

y_pos = np.arange(len(parties))
color = ['#3D81CB', '#B90E00', '#F8E900', '#E09000', '#7E0700', '#306A18', '#528F2B', '#55B728', '#52BDD0', '#BDBDBD', '#767676']

plt.title('UK General Election 2019')
plt.ylabel('Seats')
plt.xlabel('Parties')
plt.bar(y_pos, seats, align='center', alpha=0.6, color=color)

ax.set_xticks(range(len(parties)))
ax.set_xticklabels(parties, rotation='vertical')

c_rects = plt.bar(y_pos, seats, align='center', alpha=0.6, color=color)


def autolabel(rects):
    for rect in rects:
        height = rect.get_height()
        ax.text(rect.get_x() + rect.get_width() / 2., height + 1.5,
                int(height),
                ha='center', va='bottom')


autolabel(c_rects)

plt.show()