Full-siblings to Election include the colt Prodigal and the fillies Bribery and the Gohanna Mare (the grandam of Frederick and Cedric).
Sir Solomon was passed by Mr. Lake's colt Coriolanus near the finish with Election "immediately after" taking the lead and winning the race by a length.
[5] Election was ridden "with masterly style" by John Arnold of Newmarket, who was an older gentleman, as he died at an "advanced age" four years later.
[6] In his first start of 1808, Election won the 60-guinea Ladies' Plate held at Goodwood in May, winning two two-mile heats and beating the colt Epsom.
Another horse, an aged gelding named Tom Pipes, also participated but was disqualified after his jockey "mistook" or ran the wrong course during the first heat of the race.
[8] Election won the 100-guinea His Majesty's Plate at Lewes in August, beating Mr. Daly's colt Bob Booty in a set of two-mile heats.
[9] The next day at the same meeting, Election ran against Bob Booty for a second time in the 60-guinea Ladies' Plate, beating him in the four-mile race.
[16] In his final start of the season, Election won the 100-guinea His Majesty's Plate at Lewes on 27 July, beating the colts Sunbeam and Hippomenes.
[17] A few days later, Election walked over for the Ladies Plate[18] due to the injury of jockey Francis Buckle who was supposed to ride the challenging horse Bacchanal.
Buckle was seriously injured immediately after running (and winning) a race for hack horses, after his mount Swingbar collided in succession with a carriage and a man on horseback that had mistakenly crossed the track.