Thread: Program not returning expected value.

The code assignment is as follows:

/**
* Determine if there is a majority element in an array of ints.
* The parameter list is not altered as a result of this
* method.
* @param list != null
* @return the first index of the first occurrence of the majority element if it exists.
* If a majority element does not exist return -1.
*/

with my test cases, it keeps returning -1, it does not seem to even use the if loops. Can anyone tell me why it is doing that?

public static int findMajority(int[] list) {
        assert ( list != null ) : "Violation of precondition: findMajority";
        int count = 0;
        int max = (list.length / 2) + 1;
        int index = -1;
        for ( int i = 0; i < list.length;i++){
        	for ( int k =list.length-1; k <= 0;i--){
        		if (list[i] == list[k]){
        			count++;
        		if ( count >= max){
        			index = i;
        			return index;
        		}
        		}
        	}
        }
		return index;
    }