Election (Chinese: 黑社會; literal title: Black Society, a common Cantonese reference to the triads), is a 2005 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnnie To.

Hilary Hongjin He, a doctoral student at the University of Western Sydney, stated that compared to its sequel, this film is "less political or suspicious" from a Mainland standpoint.

Lok is calm, patient and even-tempered, while Big D, who attempts to buy the election with bribes, is boisterous, impatient and quick-tempered.

The police step in to prevent infighting and maintain the peace by arresting the triad's key figures, including Whistle, Big D, and Lok, who is handcuffed and taken away in front of his young son.

The production company made an altered version anyway, titled Longcheng Suiyue (Chinese: 龙城岁月; pinyin: Lóngchéng Suìyuè; lit.

[4] An undercover law enforcement agent is added in this version, while the scene revealing that a mafia member was being used by the PRC Central Government as a mole was omitted.

[3] In this version all of the criminals face arrest and there is a scene where elders give lessons to youth about avoiding the mafia.

Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes, "[Johnnie] To's saga makes plain that self-interest, far more than traditional ideas about honor, defines contemporary crooks.

[...] Thrilling and amusing in equally dark measure, it's an incisive portrait of a dysfunctional family-style organization struggling to update its sordid operation in an age of unchecked capitalist greed.