In python, we are lucky some smart people have bothered to implement efficient helpers using C and shipped it in the standard library. The collections.Counter is useful here.
>>> data = [3, 67, 23, 67, 67]
>>> from collections import Counter
>>> counter = Counter(data) # counter accepts any sequence/iterable
>>> counter # dict like object, where values are the occurrence
Counter({67: 3, 3: 1, 23: 1})
>>> common = counter.most_common()[0]
>>> common
(67, 3)
>>> common[0] if common[1] > len(data) / 2.0 + 1 else -1
67
>>>
If you prefer a function here is one ...
>>> def dominator(seq):
counter = Counter(seq)
common = counter.most_common()[0]
return common[0] if common[1] > len(seq) / 2.0 + 1 else -1
...
>>> dominator([1, 3, 6, 7, 6, 8, 6])
-1
>>> dominator([1, 3, 6, 7, 6, 8, 6, 6])
6
