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Politics

Countdown to the Eastleigh byelection - in pictures

Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nigel Farrange and leader of Monster Raving Looney party
Wednesday morning and it's the last day of campaigning before voting day. The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, meets the leader of the Monster Raving Looney party, Alan 'Howlin' Laud' Hope
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nigel Farage and Alan 'Howlin Laud' Hope
The meeting was brief: Farage and Hope keep their distance
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: UKIP leader Nigel Farrage outside his Eastleigh HQ
Farage stands outside his Eastleigh headquarters
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: A UKIP supporter
A badge-wearing, banner-toting Ukip supporter takes to the streets
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nick Clegg arrives Liberal campaign HQ, Eastleigh
Nick Clegg arrives at the Liberal Democrats' campaign headquarters
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Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nick Clegg arrives Liberal campaign HQ
... where he is caught on video by a supporter
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nick Clegg putting leaflets into envelopes
... and is happy to be photographed stuffing leaflets into envelopes
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: A Liberal campaign worker
Envelope stuffing is actually a pretty boring job in reality
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nick Clegg at Liberal campaign HQ
Clegg reassures a party worker as the media captures it all on camera
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Nick Clegg leaves the Liberal party campaign HQ
After his flying visit to Eastleigh, the Lib Dem leader is off
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Labour candiadate John O'Farrell
Labour candidate John O'Farrell campaigns, with a trail of press photographers
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Maria Hutchings, her mother Victoria and husband
It's polling day and Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, her mother, Victoria, and husband, Stuart, leave the polling station after voting at the West End Parish Centre in West End, Hampshire
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
Sean Smith in Eastleigh: Conservative, Liberal and UKIP tellers
Conservative, Lib Dem and Ukip tellers are not exactly rushed off their feet at Netley polling station
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
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