A protester dressed as Elmo attempted to gatecrash Jeremy Corbyn's visit to a polling station this morning.
The woman, dressed as the beloved Sesame Street character, got into a scuffle with security guards and even placed her Elmo head on one of them.
She was later spoken to by police before being allowed to leave.
Bizarre footage from the Islington polling station shows 'Elmo' being restrained by the guards as she tried to approach the Labour leader, who was making his way to vote.
The woman can be seen arguing with security and police, appearing to be outraged at being held back from Mr Corbyn, who said: "Hello guys, can we stop the arguments please."
She held up a sign with the name Bobby Smith, thought to be a reference to a Fathers 4 Justice activist who caused a security breach at Buckingham Palace in 2016 after using a ladder to scale the building and climb onto the roof.
Her sign also said 'Give Me Back Elmo' and 'Stop Emotional Child Abuse Vote Elmo'.
The woman was spoken to by police before she was allowed to leave.
Members of the public have been reported leaving before casting their votes due to long queues outside some polling stations.
Waits of more than half an hour were reported at various locations across England on Thursday morning.
Queuing appeared particularly widespread in London, with long lines reported in a number of constituencies.
Chris Schofield said more than 70 voters were waiting in the Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency - some of whom gave up and left during his 20-minute wait, "presumably to go to work".
"It's about 20 times busier than it was in 2017, and for the locals and Euro elections," the 27-year-old consultant told the PA news agency.
"Atmosphere is very London: orderly queueing and no-one is talking to each other!"
Several voters claimed they had never seen queues like it in years.
Asked why he thought there were so many queuing, Mr Schofield said: "I think it's the election of a lifetime for many of us."
Alixe Bovey reported queueing for 35 minutes in the Streatham constituency.
"In 20 years of voting in Streatham Hill, always at about this time of day, I have never encountered a queue of more than six or seven people," she tweeted.
Waits were also reported in English cities such as Cambridge, where John Walsh tweeted to say it was the "first time ever" that he had to queue to exercise his democratic right.
