Call it what you will, the most important day of the 2017 General Election is upon us - polling day.
(Peter Byrne/PA via AP). Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at an event in Runcorn, England, Wednesday June 7, 2017, ahead of the general election on Thursday.
Polling stations have opened across Britain in an election to choose a new government.
May surprised the country in April by calling for the snap election, seeking to increase her majority before Britain enters into two years of gruelling negotiations over its departure from the European Union. Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters have been prepared to vote tactically, to switch party votes to ensure the defeat of Conservative candidates.
But smaller parties whose support is concentrated in key constituencies - such as the Scottish Nationalist Party - can do very well. A party needs to win 326 seats to form a majority government.
May unfavorably. In particular, history is unlikely to look unkindly upon her having called an unnecessary election that, far from improving the country's chances of getting a favorable Brexit deal, actually set those chances back.
Britain Elect's average for Tuesday showed only an eight percentage-point lead.
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in his final rally claimed he had reshaped British politics.
Predictions usually start appearing shortly after the polls close, although we know from recent elections that exit polls can be way off the mark.
But those opinion surveys were conducted before the June 3 terrorist attack on London by Islamic militants who killed seven people and injured 48 others.
Voter Rachel Sheard, who cast her ballot at a polling station in Borough High Street, says that while the European Union was supposed to be at center stage, "I don't think that's in the hearts and minds of Londoners at the minute, (not) almost as much as the security is".
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The polling card will give you all the crucial information on your local polling station and its opening times.
But they mostly suggested she would increase the small majority she inherited from David Cameron past year, shortly after the surprise referendum decision to take Britain out of the European Union.
"Any preliminary count headline that suggests Prime Minister May is on course to expand her parliamentary majority should be a pound-positive", Macquarie analysts Nizam Idris, Gareth Berry and Teresa Lam said.
May was criticized for a lackluster campaign and for a plan to force elderly people to pay more for their care, a proposal her opponents dubbed the "dementia tax".
That's created the odd scenario of the Conservative party winning the election - with a slimmer majority - and May either resigning as Prime Minister or facing a leadership challenge from rivals keen to head to Brussels with a more determined "Hard Brexit" ambition. As the polls suggested a tightening race, pollsters spoke less often of a landslide and raised the possibility that May's majority would be eroded.
"When it comes to the election tomorrow, I think the choices and the questions that people need to ask are exactly the same today as they were right at the beginning of the campaign", she told a campaign rally in Norwich, eastern England. He called for increased spending on the National Health Service, schools and police, as well as the nationalization of railroads and water utilities.
"As we prepare for government, we have already changed the debate and given people hope". Hope that it doesn't have to be like this; that inequality can be tackled; that austerity can be ended; that you can stand up to the elites and the cynics.
Political campaigning was suspended on Monday in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack.
"Get those negotiations wrong and the consequences will be dire", she warned yesterday.
Corbyn, meanwhile, accused Conservatives of undermining Britain's security by cutting the number of police on the streets.
Most polling companies conducted big overhauls to how they operate - with many coming to the conclusion that they had given too much weight to young voters, who tend to vote less than older Britons.
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