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General Election Polling Booths Pop Up In Boxing Club And Laundrette In Fight Too Close To Call

People Are Voting In Caravans, Boxing Clubs And Even Portaloos Today
Steven Hopkins
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This boxing-club polling booth sums up the General Election - a fight to the end between two political pugilists who, election polls say, couldn't be closer. Well, The Guardian has Ed Miliband's Labour sneaking ahead, but regardless, most predict a hung parliament.

So, with that in mind, and with voter turnout always an issue, polling booths - set up at 50,000 locations around the UK - have popped up in some unusual locations, like boxing clubs and even a laundrette, to ensure everyone can have their say.

Polling Stations Across The Country
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A member (R) boxes as the public vote at East Hull Amateur Boxing Club which is being used as a polling station in Hull, Northern England on May 7, 2015 (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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A caravan in a Tesco supermarket being used as a polling station, Fulbourn, Cambridge (credit:Rex)
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Members of the public arrive to cast their votes at a polling station at a lifeboat station in Dungeness, southern England (credit:BEN STANSALL via Getty Images)
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A sign for a polling station at a lifeboat station in Dungeness, southern England (credit:BEN STANSALL via Getty Images)
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A women arrives to vote at the Ush Hair hairdressing salon which is being used as a polling station in Hull, Northern England (credit:OLI SCARFF via Getty Images)
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Voters arrive at a portacabin set up as a polling station in the car park of the Pantmawr Inn pub in Cardiff, south Wales (credit:GEOFF CADDICK via Getty Images)
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A polling station has been installed in the Fox and Hounds pub on May 7, 2015 in Christmas Common, England (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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Election Officials operate a polling station inside a launderette in Oxford, England (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Robin Wylie with his dog Peggy voting at a polling station caravan in the village of Carlton, Cambridgeshire (credit:Rex)
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A polling station in a portaloo in Wokingham, Berkshire (credit:Paul King/The Wokingham Paper/Alamy Live News)
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