Polls Close Following Heavy Polling Reported This Evening in the Town Centre

Published on: 7 May, 2015
Updated on: 7 May, 2015

Guildford polling stations closed at 10pm after reports of heavy polling in the evening with queues forming outside some polling stations in Guildford town centre.

One councillor said: “I have never seen anything like this in previous elections. There are lots of younger people voting too.”

Unless there is an upset of unprecedented proportions Conservative Anne Milton will be returned as the MP for Guildford. The result is expected between 3 and 4am.

The high turnout was unsurpring. The sun shone for most of the day and there was little to put voters off, especially as nationally the result is as uncertain as anyone can remember, while the arrival of the Guildford Greenbelt Group gives extra spice to the borough council election.

The good weather ieven caused some pundits to predict a record turnout in the south of the country.

Polling station in Send.

In Send Cllr Keith Taylor (Con, Send) thought they were on track for a 70% turnout.

Another voter attends to do his duty at the polling station at the United Reformed Church in Portsmouth Road.

At the United Reformed Church on the Portsmouth Road in Friary and St Nicolas around 250 voters were thought to have cast their vote by midday and voters were continuing to arrive in a steady trickle.

No voters in view at Sydenham Road.

The Sydenham Road polling station seemed relatively quiet as did, probably, the borough’s smallest polling station in Littleton which caters for just a few hundred voters.

Probably the borough’s smallest polling station in Littleton.

Students were coming and going constantly through the shared entrance to the polling station on the campus, but how many were voting?

Polling station at the University of Surrey.

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