Is Election actually good?

Election sits in the 73.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.1% of them.

How does Election compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Election lands in the 73.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Election's score based on?

354 calibrated reviewers stand behind Election's score.

1999

global pct

73.1

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Election

Name: Election
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1999

Scored from 354 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

73.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

73.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

93.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

354 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An idealistic high school civics teacher in suburban Omaha grows resentful of Tracy Flick, a relentlessly ambitious overachiever running unopposed for student body president. To knock her down a peg, he convinces a popular but dim football player to enter the race, setting off a darkly comic chain of sabotage, betrayal, and self-destruction that spirals far beyond the ballot box.

Election is a 1999 comedy and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Satire.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,495 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 354 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 360 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.