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The weirdest polling stations at the 2017 General Election
There's something very quaint and British about the way we vote, trudging dutifully in the drizzle towards church halls, primary schools and community centres to mark our ballots.
Polling stations are set up all over the country, and some of them have been put in very strange places.
Some are even set up in private residences.
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How will voter turnout at the 2017 General Election compare with previous votes?
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Everyone will now have until 10pm this evening to make their choice with the results rolling in throughout the night.
Theresa May is on course to increase her majority in the House of Commons with a final campaign poll giving the Tories a lead of seven points over Labour as the nation heads to the ballot box.
In a poll that was published on Wednesday evening the Conservatives had as much as a 24 point lead when the snap election was called by the Prime Minister.
But the last poll conducted by YouGov puts the Tories on 42 per cent and Labour on 35.
If that result is replicated at the polls today the Conservatives would end up with an increased majority of almost 50 seats, up on the 17 the party enjoyed previously.
Meanwhile, the YouGov survey for The Times, which was undertaken between June 5-7, puts the Liberal Democrats on 10 per cent and Ukip on five per cent.
The YouGov poll falls somewhere in the middle of a range of other surveys which all predict a Conservative win but by different margins.
The final Survation poll had the Tories and Labour almost neck and neck on 41 per cent and 40 per cent respectively.
An ICM poll for The Guardian had Mrs May’s party on 46 per cent with Labour on 34 per cent.
The Lib Dems were on seven per cent, the SNP on five per cent and Ukip on five per cent while the Green Party was on two per cent.
A ComRes poll for The Independent gave the Tories a 10-point lead over Labour, 44 per cent to 34 per cent.
All of the polls took place before polling day.
Mrs May called the snap poll on April 18 and after a fierce campaign which was disrupted by terror attacks in Manchester and London she will find out if voters have been won over by her vision for post-Brexit Britain.
Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn will be hoping that his left-wing manifesto and large rallies have been enough to secure him the keys to Downing Street.
Polling stations opened at 7am and they will close at 10pm with the first result, likely to be Houghton and Sunderland South which has been quickest at the last five elections, expected to declare just one hour later at 11pm.
There should then be a steady trickle of results until about 2am when declarations should start to come in thick and fast from across the UK.
The main wave of results is expected to start at about 3am with the overall picture likely to be clear by about 5am.
The leader of the winning party traditionally waits for the leader of the losing party to concede defeat before claiming victory.
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