In pictures: Voters go to the polls

1 of 8 Tony and Cherie Blair accompany sons Euan, 21, and Nicky, 19, who are first time voters, to a polling station in Trimdon, in the prime minister's Sedgefield constituency.

2 of 8 Conservative leader Michael Howard pauses with his wife Sandra and daughter Larissa outside his local polling station in Lympney.

3 of 8 Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy and his wife Sarah cast their vote in Caol, near Fort William.

4 of 8 A voter leaves a polling station in Braughing, Hertfordshire.

5 of 8 A set of clubs sits outside a rural polling station in Kingsdown, Somerset.

6 of 8 One of the more unusual polling stations - York Art Gallery.

7 of 8 Barbara Parker puts the finishing touches to a polling station at the British School in Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire.

8 of 8 Chelsea pensioners from the Royal Hospital in London enter a polling booth to vote.