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UK elections in pictures

London on election day

Britons are casting their ballots across the country in the tightest elections in a generation. Polls close at 10 p.m. on Thursday.

Leader of the Liberal Democrat party Nick Clegg and his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez pose after voting at Hall Park centre polling station in Sheffield ©AFP
Nigel Dodds, Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and candidate for north Belfast, greets members of the public outside Seaview polling station in Belfast ©AFP
Scottish Labour Party Leader Jim Murphy arrives to vote at Busby Primary School in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire in Scotland ©AFP
Scotland's First Minister and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) Nicola Sturgeon casts her vote at the Broomhoouse Community Hall in Glasgow, Scotland ©AFP
British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party David Cameron arrives with his wife Samantha to vote at a polling station in Spelsbury ©AFP
Ed Miliband, Leader of Britain's Labour Party, and his wife Justine Thornton, leave after casting their votes in the village of Sutton, near Doncaster ©AFP
UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage leaves after casting his vote in Ramsgate ©AFP
A woman pushes a wheelchair at a garden centre in Chessington, used as a polling station ©AFP
Members of the public vote at East Hull Amateur Boxing Club which is being used as a polling station in Hull ©AFP
A poster of Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) near Seaview polling station in Belfast ©AFP
Chelsea pensioners leave a polling station after casting their votes in London ©AFP
An equestrian groom rides back to Three Oaks, a residential house where a polling station is set up in Bramshill ©AFP
Women leave the UK Islamic Mission Hull Branch which is set up as a polling station in Hull ©AFP
A man attaches a polling sign to the wall of a polling station set up in Mattingley church hall ©AFP 
Nuns leave a polling station after voting in London ©AFP
Members of the public arrive to cast their votes at a polling station in Chipping Norton town hall ©AFP
A cyclist arrives to cast his vote at The Rock Inn pub, being used as a polling station in Chiddinstone Hoath, near Edenbridge ©AFP
Members of the public sit outside the Fox and Hounds pub which doubles as a polling station in Christmas Common ©AFP
London Mayor Boris Johnson and his wife Marina Wheeler cast their vote in London ©AFP
Northern Ireland First Minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Peter Robinson gives the thumbs up to waiting media after casting his vote in East Belfast ©AP
A man walks his dog past a 2S3 M-1973 Akatsiya 152-mm self-propelled gun howitzer tank stands outside the Greenwich Heritage Centre, set up as a polling station in London ©AFP

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