Who will win the UK general election?
A timetable for election day (and night) on 7 May - whether you're planning to stay up or night or not
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Your support makes all the difference.After a gruelling six-week campaign, voters finally go to the polls on Thursday.
The polls are neck-and-neck, so we might not know who's actually going to be the next prime minister for days, or even weeks.
But as the results roll in on Thursday night and Friday morning, things will at least become a bit clearer. Here's what to look out for.
When can I vote?
The UK general election (as well as local elections in much of England outside London) is on Thursday 7 May. Polls open at 7am and close at 10pm. Around a sixth of people are registered for postal votes, so may have already voted.
Where can I vote?
Your local polling station. The address will be on your polling card sent to you by the elections office at your local council.
When will we begin to have the faintest idea about the outcome?
Exit polls - of voters after they have voted - come out at 10pm.
Houghton and Sunderland South (formerly Sunderland South) is traditionally the first constituency to declare. Last time that was at 10.52pm. Other Sunderland seats follow closely behind - but all are solidly Labour, so won't tell us much about the result.
Key marginal seats such as Nuneaton - which Labour are aiming to reclaim from the Tories - start to declare at 1am.
Most of the 650 seats will declare some time between 2am and 5am. Seven seats - St Ives, for example - do not begin counting until Friday morning, so the result won't be known until Friday lunchtime.
What are the key seats to look out for?
If Labour do not take Conservative-held Nuneaton, declaring at 1am, Ed Miliband is in line for a bad night.
In Scotland, huge Labour losses to the SNP are close to inevitable. But the reds at least hold on to its most senior MPs such as Scottish leader Jim Murphy or campaign strategist Douglas Alexander? Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat declares at 3am.
Also at 3am, Bristol West, the Greens' best hope of adding to their current tally of one MP.
Were you up for Nick Clegg? You'll know around 4.30am whether the Lib Dem leader has lost his Sheffield Hallam seat (majority: 15,000) to Labour.
Find out whether Nigel Farage has taken Thanet South - a three-way marginal - at around 6am.
Any more questions about voting?
The Electoral Commission's About My Vote website has more information.
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