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Voices and votes

15 June 2017

  • SNP supporters cheer at the Glasgow general election count at the Emirates Arena.

    Glasgow East: where just 75 votes stopped Labour ousting the SNP

    In the final dispatch from Glasgow East, Lisa O’Carroll finds disenfranchised voters may not have been swayed by Corbyn, but many young people were. Photographs by Murdo MacLeod

14 June 2017

  • A Labour rosette supporting Hartlepool candidate Mike Hill

    Hartlepool: 'It was the cuts that really gave Labour the power to crack on'

    In their final dispatch, Josh Halliday and photographer Gary Calton meet voters who put Labour’s surge in support down to the cult of Corbyn and the impact of austerity

13 June 2017

  • Molly Lythaby, 18, who took on her local MP over tuition fees.

    Somerset: tactical Lib Dem voters hope to back Labour next time

    The Guardian based reporters in six constituencies across the country for the general election. Steven Morris and photographer Sam Frost were in Wells, where the re-election of the Conservative MP frustrated Corbyn supporters who voted for Farron’s party

12 June 2017

  • Supporters at Jeremy Corbyn’s final campaign rally in London.

    Voices and votes: how grassroots graft changed British politics

  • Counting underway in the Birmingham Erdington constituency.

    Erdington: 'In the end I could not vote Tory'

10 June 2017

  • Jeremy Corbyn’s perceived warmth relative to Theresa May won over swing voters.

    Voices and votes: leaders' personalities were crucial in unexpected election result

    Voters swayed by Corbyn’s anti-establishment appeal and Labour’s hopeful message, while SNP losses point to lack of appetite for second referendum

8 June 2017

  • Alex, a facilities manager contractor, takes part in a focus group in Wells.

    Voices and votes: what Britain is really thinking

  • Pheasants hang from a board.

    Labour is egg and chips, the Tories game pie – what our focus groups said

7 June 2017

  • Tim Clay from Hartlepool

    Hartlepool: 'I was taking home more money each week 25 years ago'

  • Florence Herlihy, Bertie Handley and Catrin Brooke, all 18, are A-level students at the Blue School in Wells and will be voting for the first time in this general election.

    Somerset: first-time student voters learn hard lesson of tactical voting

6 June 2017

  • Alina and Krzysztof Sulikowska with their four-year-old daughter Isabella, outside their home in Erdington, Birmingham

    Erdington: ‘The decision about our future was taken for us’

    In the fourth dispatch from Erdington, Birmingham, Nazia Parveen and photographer Andrew Fox find uncertainty and frustration among the area’s Polish community
  • Cambridge students Oliver Kontkanen, left, and Tom Jelly.

    Cambridge: 'Scrapping tuition fees is attractive ... if it can be costed'

    In the fourth dispatch from Cambridge, Amelia Gentleman and photographer Antonio Olmos find that students are sceptical of big promises
  • Armed police on the street:

    Terrorism top of undecided voters' concerns after London attack

    While the political response has become the most important issue for people in our six key constituencies, views differ on which party they trust to tackle it

5 June 2017

  • From left: John Wilson, his three-year-old daughter, Lacey, Elizabeth Steele and Nicola Wilson

    Glasgow East: 'What is the point in voting? Nothing will change'

    In the run-up to the general election, six Guardian reporters are writing from constituencies across the UK to find out what matters in your area. In our fourth visit to Glasgow East, Lisa O’Carroll speaks to residents of Easterhouse, one of Scotland’s most deprived areas

2 June 2017

  • Citizens Advice Harrow

    Harrow West: 'We’ve seen teachers and nurses struggle with housing problems'

    In their fourth dispatch, Gary Younge and photographer Graeme Robertson meet people struggling to get by, and those trying to help them

1 June 2017

  • Naomi, carer and cleaner, at a Wells election focus group.

    Somerset: 'We liked May at first. But is she out of touch?'

    Undecided voters discuss who they will support in the Wells constituency – a classic two-horse race between the Tories and Lib Dems

31 May 2017

  • A homeless man sleeping rough in the space between the buildings that house the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts and the Park Street Car Park.

    Cambridge: 'The housing crisis is at breaking point'

    In the third dispatch from Cambridge, Amelia Gentleman and photographer Antonio Olmos find housing is a key issue in a constituency struggling to keep up with its own success

30 May 2017

  • Alicja Kaczmarek at the Erdington Welcome Centre and cafe in the high street.

    Erdington: 'This election could be lost on litter'

    In the run-up to the general election, six Guardian reporters are writing from constituencies across the country to find out what matters to you and your area. In the latest dispatch from Erdington, Birmingham, Nazia Parveen and photographer Christopher Thomond learn that a growing rubbish crisis could easily lay waste to local politicians’ careers

29 May 2017

  • A view of Harrow where Labour MP Gareth Thomas, who grew up in the constituency, is standing for re-election.

    Harrow West: 'people think saying they will vote Tory makes them look bad'

    As seven undecided voters talk about their intentions at the general election, some are sympathetic to Labour – while others are quiet

28 May 2017

  • Cattle in pasture near Wedmore, Somerset.

    Somerset: where fed-up farmers are ditching the Tories

    In the run-up to the general election, six Guardian reporters are writing from constituencies across the country to find out what matters to you and your area. In their third dispatch, Steven Morris and photographer Sam Frost met farmers switching allegiance to the Lib Dems
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