Guardian photographers at the election

6 April: Crowds try to photograph the prime minister, Gordon Brown, as he leaves Buckingham Palace after meeting the Queen to ask for the dissolution of parliament before the general election
Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

7 April: The former deputy prime minister and deputy leader of the Labour party, John Prescott, launches his final battlebus tour in Carlisle
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

7 April: Gordon Brown reads briefing papers during a visit to Innocent Smoothies in west London
Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian

7 April: Esther Rantzen canvassing for votes in the Arndale Shopping Centre, Luton
Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

12 April: Gordon Brown is applauded during the launch of the Labour party manifesto at Queen Elizabeth Hospital's new building in Birmingham
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

13 April: Peter Lyburn, Conservative candidate for Perth and North Perthshire, leafleting on the banks of Loch Tay at Fearnan, Perthshire, Scotland
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

13 April: Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, on the campaign trail in Buckingham
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

13 April: Gordon Brown working on a speech on a train to Birmingham
Photograph: Martin Argles for The Guardian

14 April: A couple pose by the Conservative election bus at the historic dockyards in Gloucester
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

15 April: Gordon Brown smiles during a visit to Siemens in Manchester
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

15 April: The Business secretary, Lord Mandelson, dances with Hannah Rita-MacKenzie at the Blackpool Tower ballroom
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

18 April: The Conservative party leader, David Cameron, gives a speech at the Sun Inn pub in Coate, Swindon
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

21 April: Ed Balls campaigning in his newly formed Morley and Outwood constituency in West Yorkshire
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

21 April: Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, on the balcony of their hotel overlooking Cardiff bay
Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian

22 April: Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, campaigning in Ridley Road market, London
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

22 April: Conservative candidate Kemi Adegoke campaigns in Dulwich and West Norwood
Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian

24 April: David Cameron speaks at a rally at Palmers College in Thurrock, Essex
Photograph: David Levene for The Guardian

24 April: A BBC employee records David Cameron's speech at Palmers College in Thurrock, Essex
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

26 April: The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, at a press conference at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, Scotland
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

26 April: Chuka Umunna, David Miliband and Keith Vaz at a cafe in Streatham
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

27 April: Gordon Brown on a walkabout in Glasgow, Scotland
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

27 April: Lembit Opik sits in a van with election placards while out canvassing in his constituency of Montgomeryshire in Wales
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

28 April: Gordon Brown discusses strategy with candidates in a room at the Honeywell Community centre in Oldham
Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian

28 April: Nick Clegg prepares to record a message at The Work Foundation in Westminster
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

28 April: Gordon Brown leaves the home of Gillian Duffy in Rochdale. The prime minister broke off from his campaign to apologise to Duffy for telling aides she was a bigoted woman after the pair met earlier in the day
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

29 April: Charlie, 93, talks to Ben Gummer, Conservative candidate for Ipswich, while out walking his dog Millie on the Rivers Estate in Ipswich
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

30 April: Iain Bundred, chief press officer, and Sue Nye, Gordon Brown's senior aide, talk during a campaign visit at Blidworth Oaks primary school in Sherwood
Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian

30 April: Students from the University of Birmingham watch the third and final leaders' debate in the rain on a big screen set up by the BBC in a rugby field
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

30 April: Members of the cabinet line up in Birmingham before a poster launch. L-R: Douglas Alexander, Tessa Jowell, Lord Mandelson, Harriet Harman
Photograph: Martin Argles for The Guardian

1 May: Nick Clegg on the Lib Dem battlebus with his wife, Miriam González Durántez
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

2 May: Nick Clegg jokes around next to the sleeping soundman Arie Koetzee
Photograph: Dan Chung for The Guardian

2 May: David Cameron on a visit to Lewinnick Lodge in Newquay, Cornwall
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

3 May: David Cameron prepares for a speech at a Citizens UK event at the Central Methodist hall, Westminster
Photograph: David Levene for The Guardian

3 May: A sound technician adjusts some wiring as David Cameron speaks to conservative supporters at the Feltham assembly hall, London
Photograph: David Levene for The Guardian

3 May: Gordon Brown visits Ipswich
Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

3 May: Sarah Brown updates her blog on the train from Great Yarmouth
Photograph: Martin Argles for The Guardian

3 May: Nick Clegg returns to London on his campaign plane
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

4 May: Lord Mandelson tours the Johnson Tiles factory in Stoke-on-Trent, where he addressed local business leaders
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

6 May: Nick Clegg's final campaign event in Sheffield
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

6 May: Nick Clegg and his wife, Miriam, go for a last-minute shop for dinner in Waitrose on election night
Photograph: Dan Chung for The Guardian

6 May: Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, at the count for his constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

7 May: Media on Abingdon Green, by the Houses of Parliament, await the election result
Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian

7 May: David Cameron arrives at St Stephen's club to make a speech to the media
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

7 May: Nick Clegg speaks to party workers in the stairwell of the Lib Dems' Cowley Street headquarters
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

7 May: Gordon Brown makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street
Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

8 May: Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Gordon Brown at the VE day celebrations in Whitehall, London
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

9 May: Conservative party negotiators, led by the shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, arrive at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall for a post-election meeting with senior Liberal Democrats
Photograph: Dan Chung for The Guardian

10 May: Nick Clegg speaks on the phone as he leaves talks with the Conservative party
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for The Guardian

11 May: Nick Clegg holds notes on coalition negotiations as he leaves the Commons
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

11 May: Gordon Brown takes the phone call from Nick Clegg that decides his resignation
Photograph: Martin Argles for The Guardian

11 May: Gordon Brown and his family leave Downing St applauded by political staff and civil servants
Photograph: Martin Argles for The Guardian

11 May: Gordon Brown announces his resignation outside 10 Downing Street, with his wife, Sarah
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for The Guardian

11 May: The new prime minister, David Cameron, speaks in front of 10 Downing Street watched by his wife, Samantha
Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

12 May: David Cameron greets the new deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, on the steps of 10 Downing Street after the two parties formed a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for The Guardian