At a polling booth, reserve voters, consisting of disabled and sick men and others, proceed up the stairs to take oaths; in the background Britannia sits in a coach that has broken down while the coachman and footman play at cards. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Morellon de la Cave, 1758.

The two candidates sit at the back of the booth perched on chairs above the throng. On the left, one of the two men in the booth draws a caricature of the nearby candidate. Two rival lawyers argue on either side of a voter with a hook-hand and peg-leg. The lowermost voter supports himself with a pair of crutches. The broken-down coach is an allegory of the state of the nation. A popular execution broadside is hawked by a woman. In the background the bridge is crowded by the rival factions bristling with sticks and staves