Littledown: ready for the 2017 election count
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Littledown: ready for the 2017 election count
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 8 Jun 2017
Looking down from the café area of Image into the main sports hall, which is the venue for Bournemouth's election counts. It is 9:20pm so there are 40 minutes until polls close, whereupon ballot boxes will be brought here. The room is split down the middle, as seen from here, for the two constituencies, Bournemouth East (right-hand side) and Bournemouth West. This is a more straightforward count than the general election in 2015, which was combined with the local elections - meaning that the various counting teams had to be carefully split into individual wards. This time, the teams on each side of the room did not need such differentiation and any ballot box could be given to any team. For the same view well into the process a few hours from now, see Image For more information on the actual process of counting the votes, see Image For the first of the two declarations, see Image
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