STORY: 40,000 polling stations opened across Britain on Thursday (July 4) as voters made their choice in a parliamentary election expected to bring Keir Starmer's Labour Party to power.
Pollsters predict Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives will be swept away after 14 often turbulent years.
Sunak cast his vote early in his northern English constituency alongside his wife.
Opinion polls put Starmer's center-left party on course for a landslide victory.
Sixty-one-year-old Starmer also arriving at a London polling station with his wife to cast his ballot.
In statement Starmer, the former chief prosecutor of England and Wales, said: "Today, Britain can begin a new chapter.''
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage soaked up the sun on a walk-about in his constituency of Clacton-on-Sea.
Liberal Democrat Party leader Ed Davey arrived at a local church to cast his vote.
Voters on London's streets had mixed emotions.
''I feel like every candidate is pretty awful. In all honesty, if I was going to vote for any one I would vote for Labour. But I don't think any of them are good choices.''
''I'm optimistic. I think it's been a pretty dreadful ten, 12, 14 years. So pretty optimistic."
Voting ends at 10 p.m. when an exit poll will give the first indication of the outcome.
Official results are expected in the early hours of Friday (July 5).
