Question

I want to get only winners in mysql table.

SELECT mayor_id, local_unit_id, Value FROM 
   (SELECT mayor_id,  local_unit_id, SUM(  `votes` ) AS  'Value' 
    FROM mayorresults 
    GROUP BY  `mayor_id`) AS t1
    ORDER BY  `t1`.`local_unit_id` ASC

Idea is to Sum votes first then get only largest number, in this case the winner.

With this query I can get all, but not just the winners.

I want MAX(SUM(votes)) to get, but It doesn’t work like this.

EDIT: I want to get winners for each localunit

eg.

local_unit_id    mayor_id    votes
 1                25          8562
 2                534         18562

Answer 1

Update, after the explanations:

SELECT grp.local_unit_id, grp.mayor_id, grp.Value
FROM  
    ( SELECT  local_unit_id, mayor_id, SUM( votes ) AS Value 
      FROM mayorresults 
      GROUP BY local_unit_id, mayor_id
    ) AS grp
  JOIN
    ( SELECT local_unit_id, MAX(Value) AS Value
      FROM 
        ( SELECT  local_unit_id, mayor_id, SUM( votes ) AS Value 
          FROM mayorresults 
          GROUP BY local_unit_id, mayor_id
        ) AS grp
      GROUP BY local_unit_id
    ) AS grp2
    ON  grp2.local_unit_id = grp.local_unit_id
    AND grp2.Value = grp.Value
ORDER BY local_unit ASC