What would be the best way to combine these two SQL statements into one? I tried using union, but seem to be going nowhere.

select id as id from likes where type=1;

select sum(votes) as votes from likes where parent=id;

Here is the likes table:

id  type  parent  country  votes
 1     1       0       US      0
 2     2       1       US      6 // This +
19     3       1       US      3 // This
 3     3       2       US      3
 7     3       2       US      3
 4    10       3       US      1
 5    10       3       US      1
 6    10       3       US      1
10    10       7       US      1
 9    10       7       US      1
 8    10       7       US      1
20    10      19       US      1
21    10      19       US      1
22    10      19       US      1

This is the result I'm trying to achieve:

id | votes
---------------
1  | 9

Try this:

SELECT
  l1.id,
  SUM(l2.votes) AS Totalvotes
FROM likes AS l1
INNER JOIN likes AS l2 ON l1.id = l2.parent
WHERE l1.type = 1
GROUP BY l1.id;

See it in action here:

• SQL Fiddle Demo

This will give you:

| ID | TOTALVOTES |
-------------------
|  1 |          9 |

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