The Mock Election is an 1827 genre painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon.

[1] It was inspired by a real-life event that took place while Haydon was himself imprisoned at the King's Bench Prison in Southwark for debt.

They declared they would elect two Members of Parliament (the standard representation for a pre-Reform Act English Borough).

[2] Three candidates stood for election, one of them Robert Stanton had recently been a real Member of Parliament.

[5] It was followed by a sequel Chairing the Members, depicting the aftermath of the mock election and the calling in of soldiers by the prison authorities to restore order.