Election day refers to when general elections are held, usually on a weekday. Voters receive a poll card with details of their allocated polling station. At the station, voters' names are crossed off the electoral list before receiving a ballot paper. Voters mark their ballot in private and place it in the sealed ballot box. After polls close, ballot boxes are transported for counting, which usually begins on election night as results start to come in from 11pm onwards. The outcome is known when one party wins a majority or the current Prime Minister resigns if no party has a majority.

1. Polling day
Election Night

2. Election day refers
to the day when
general elections
are held.
on a Sunday
(to get as
many voters
as possible)
on a weekday
a weekday
election day a
public holiday

3. Polling stations
 Voters receive a poll
card from the returning
officer at their local
authority with details of
their allocated polling
place.
 They don`t have to
show the poll card or any other form of identification at
the polling place in order to vote (with the exception of
Northern Ireland, where one piece of photographic ID
must be presented at the polling station)

4.  the voter's name
and address are
marked off on the
list of electors
(can not vote twice).
 On a separate list (called the corresponding number
list) the presiding officer or poll clerk writes the voter's
elector number next to the unique identifying number
of the ballot paper. (opened only by the order of a court
in case the election result is challenged.)

5. papers without these features are not counted.
 If the ballot paper has been spoilt, the presiding
officer/poll clerk can handout a new one after the
old ballot paper is cancelled.
 The voter marks the ballot papers in a voting
booth
 and place it in the ballot box.
 Voters get the
ballot paper
 ballot papers have
an official mark
and a unique
identifying
number.

6. a tendered ballot
If a voter requests a ballot paper but someone
has already voted in their name, they can only
get a tendered ballot.
It is not placed in the ballot box.
the Presiding Officer connected it with the
voter's name.
Although these ballots are not counted or
included at the count

7. At the close
of poll
the slot at the top of the ballot box is
sealed by the presiding officer or poll
clerk
the ballot box is transported by the
presiding officer to the central
counting location.

8. Election Night
It usually refers to the evening after an
election day
the votes are counted and everyone is
waiting for the election result.

9. close at 10 pm
the votes are counted immediately.
The earliest results are declared by
about 11 pm
most are declared by 3 or 4 am
some constituencies do not declare
their results until the following day.
Each individual MP assumes office
immediately upon the declaration by
the local returning officer.

10. When all the results are known
or when one party achieves an absolute
majority of the seats in the House of
Commons, the first response comes from the
current Prime Minister.
If a majority has not been achieved, and it is
obvious that another party has the numbers to
form a government, the Prime Minister submits
his/her resignation to the Monarch.