[django] Getting a count of objects in a queryset in django

How can I add a field for the count of objects in a database. I have the following models:

class Item(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()

class Contest(models.Model);
    name = models.CharField()

class Votes(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    item = models.ForeignKey(Item)
    contest = models.ForeignKey(Contest)
    comment = models.TextField()

To find the votes for contestA I am using the following query in my view

current_vote = Item.objects.filter(votes__contest=contestA)

This returns a queryset with all of the votes individually but I want to get the count votes for each item, anyone know how I can do that? thanks

Another way of doing this would be using Aggregation. You should be able to achieve a similar result using a single query. Such as this:

Item.objects.values("contest").annotate(Count("id"))

I did not test this specific query, but this should output a count of the items for each value in contests as a dictionary.

Use related name to count votes for a specific contest

class Item(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()

class Contest(models.Model);
    name = models.CharField()

class Votes(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    item = models.ForeignKey(Item)
    contest = models.ForeignKey(Contest, related_name="contest_votes")
    comment = models.TextField()

>>> comments = Contest.objects.get(id=contest_id).contest_votes.count()