General Election 2010: Ballot counts around the UK

An election exit poll is projected onto Big Ben in central London
Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Tallymen watch as counting begins in the Ards leisure centre in Newtownards County Down, Northern Ireland
Photograph: Julien Behal/PA

A sheet showing candidates, including Gordon Brown, is taped to a television camera at the count centre in Kirkcaldy
Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Labour supporters watch with expectation at the Sunderland election count
Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

Cameras focus on ballot papers being counted in Gordon Brown's Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency
Photograph: Andrew MIlligan/PA

Ballot boxes arrive to be counted for the Barking and Dagenham constituencies
Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Votes are counted at the Ponds Forge international sports hall in Nick Clegg's Sheffield Hallam constituency
Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

A Labour supporter yawns as he watches ballot papers being counted at the Towngate theatre in Basildon
Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

A 'doubtful votes' tray lies unused at the count for the South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency
Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

A supporter of the Alliance for Green Socialism at the Morley and Outwood count in Leeds
Photograph: Asadour Guzelian/Asadour Guzelian

Supporters keeping the red flag flying in Sunderland as Labour party candidate Julie Elliott is declared winner in Sunderland Central
Photograph: Christopher Thomond

Votes are counted at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham
Photograph: David Sillitoe

TV crews prepare for the announcement of election results in London
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