[Python] Why do these two pieces of code produce a different value

So I'm going through the 100 days of python course on udemy going through day 8 specifically where I got to coding exercise 8: love calculator. I got my code to actually work but it produces a completely different count then the solution. Can someone explain to what the difference is? Is it just because I didn't use .count and instead defined count as a variable?

def calculate_love_score(name1, name2):
low_name = name1.lower()
low_name_2 =name2.lower()
count = 0
for letter in low_name:
if letter in true_list:
count += 1
elif letter in love_list:
count += 1
else:
pass
for letter in low_name_2:
if letter in true_list:
count += 1
elif letter in love_list:
count += 1
else:
pass
print(f"Your true love score is {count}!")
return count



true_list = ["t", "r", "u", "e"]
love_list = ["l", "o", "v", "e"]

calculate_love_score("Kanye West", "Kim Kardashian")


def calculate_love_score(name1, name2):
combined_names = name1 + name2
lower_names = combined_names.lower()

t = lower_names.count("t")
r = lower_names.count("r")
u = lower_names.count("u")
e = lower_names.count("e")
first_digit = t + r + u + e

l = lower_names.count("l")
o = lower_names.count("o")
v = lower_names.count("v")
e = lower_names.count("e")
second_digit = l + o + v + e


score = int(str(first_digit) + str(second_digit))
print(score)

calculate_love_score("Kanye West", "Kim Kardashian")

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