Election 2010 in Photos
Published on 17 May 2010
Acting Returning Officer Ian Willett received a Writ from the Queen instructing him to carry out an election.
On election day voters arrived at the polling stations, filled in their ballot papers...
...and posted them into the ballot boxes.
The ballot boxes from each polling station were then taken to the "count location"...
...where they were first verified and then counted.
Votes were counted in batches of fifty which were then placed inside coloured boxes - one colour for each candidate.
Politicians looked on as the votes were counted.
Candidates were interviewed throughout the night by local press and the BBC.
Having been duly elected MP for Epping Forest, Eleanor Laing made her victory speech.
Finally, the Writ was filled in with the result of the election and sent back via a government courier.
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