ELECTION DAY is today and the UK is heading to the polls to cast their votes. Where is YOUR local polling station?
The time is up for campaigning, and now voters will make their decisions and cast their votes in the first December general election since 1923. Polling stations opened at 7am and votes will be cast right up until 10pm.
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Votes will then be counted and results are expected to be announced in the early hours of Friday morning.
Issues shaping this election include Brexit, the NHS, the economy and climate change, with each party’s manifesto promising different things.
On the last day of the campaign, party leaders attended rallies and spoke to voters.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was at a Labour rally in Middlesbrough, while Mr Johnson began Wednesday in Pudsey in West Yorkshire, insisting he was “fighting for every vote”.
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He told reporters: “This could not be more critical, it could not be tighter – I just say to everybody the risk is very real that we could tomorrow be going into another hung parliament.”
On Thursday, once you have decided which of your local candidates you wish to vote for, it is time to head to your local polling station and cast your vote.
You should have received your polling card through the post, and on this, it will say which polling station to attend.
Election 2019 polling station finder: Politicians have been campaigning on the last day before the election (Image: PA)
Election 2019 polling station finder: To cast your vote place an X in the box next to the candidate you wish to pick (Image: EMPICS)
However, if you’ve lost your card or haven’t received one, you can check which polling station .
Pop your postcode in on the website and this will tell you where to go to cast your vote.
You can only vote if you are registered to do so and now we are just hours away from polls opening it is too late to register.
You must attend the polling station assigned to you, as this is where you are registered to vote.
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You do not need your polling card to vote and you do not need to display ID.
When you attend, give your name to the polling clerk and they will hand you your ballot paper.
Mark a cross (X) against the one candidate you want to elect, either using the pencil provided or you can bring your own pen.
Then once you have chosen your candidate place your ballot paper in the box provided.
Election 2019 polling station finder: Boris Johnson has been on the trail canvassing for votes (Image: PA)
People outside the polling station called “tellers” may ask you for the number on your polling card.
These people are volunteering on behalf of candidates – and often wear rosettes – and they use the information to check who has voted and remind people who have not to do so.
The Electoral Commission says: “They are allowed to be there and to ask for the information, but you don’t have to give them any information if you don’t want to.
“If you are concerned about the conduct of a teller, speak to a member of staff at the polling station.”
After voting has ended and polls close an exit poll will give the first insight into how the election results may go.
It will be announced live on the BBC, ITV and Sky News and with each of the past few elections, the exit poll has produced a very accurate projection of the actual result.
Fieldwork will be carried out by polling company Ipsos Mori, with tens of thousands of interviews conducted at 144 polling stations across the country.
On leaving one of these stations, voters will be asked throughout polling day, using a mock ballot paper, how they just voted.
