[Python] Python: how to get sorted count of items in a list?

In Python, I've got a list of items like:

mylist = [a, a, a, a, b, b, b, d, d, d, c, c, e]


And I'd like to output something like:

a (4)
b (3)
d (3)
c (2)
e (1)


How can I output a count and leaderboard of items in a list? I'm not too bothered about efficiency, just any way that works

Thanks!

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