Voters are awaiting the exit poll which will indicate who has won the General Election as the final ballots are cast following weeks of campaigning by party leaders. Polling stations across the UK opened at 7am, giving millions of voters the chance to decide if the Tory incumbent Rishi Sunak remains in the top job or the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer enters Downing Street. Opinion polls suggest Labour is on course to secure a big majority in the House of Commons and form a new government.
The first indication of whether the pollsters were correct will come moments after the ballot closes at 10pm, when the exit poll is broadcast by the BBC, Sky and ITV. Mr Sunak, who has insisted the results are not a foregone conclusion despite dire poll ratings for his party, voted in his Richmond constituency. He waved at reporters as he and his wife Akshata Murty arrived hand-in-hand at the Kirby Sigston Village Hall, as he hopes to be returned to Parliament as the MP for Richmond and Northallerton.
On X, the Prime Minister repeated his plea to voters to “stop the Labour supermajority”. Sir Keir was also joined by his wife, Victoria, as he visited a polling station in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency. The Labour leader told his final rally in Redditch, Worcestershire, on Wednesday night to “imagine a Britain moving forward together with a Labour government”.
He added: “That’s what we are fighting for, let’s continue that fight. “If you want change, you have to vote .
