Six weeks since Rishi Sunak stood outside Downing Street in the pouring rain and called the election, people in Britain will today pass their verdict on who should form the next government.
Polls suggest an overwhelming Labour victory and a Tory wipeout, but they have been badly wrong in the past, and could be this time too.
So what scenarios might unfold over the next 24 hours, and what would they mean for the make-up of the next parliament and how it will function?
• UK general election results – follow live
Some polls this week have raised the prospect that the Conservatives could lose more than 80 per cent of the seats they won at the last election five years ago.
One suggested the
