Polling Collection

Women trying to vote at New York polling station, 1871
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), noted American feminist, with her sister Jennie Claflin, try to vote in the New York election of 1871, but are turned away

Advert, Patent Portable Election Fittings by Flere & Mills Limited, London Date: 1903

Glasgow Polling Station Date: 1897

Polling Station, Referendum Day, 5 June 1975
Scene outside a Polling Station in the London Borough of Wandsworth, 5 June 1975. A Referendum was being held on the UK's membership of the EEC (now the EU), which it had joined in 1973

Joe Bent, Communist Party politician in Southwark, London
Joe Bent (Spencer John Bent) Communist Party politician in Southwark, south-east London. Seen here outside a Polling Station, talking with a voter

Royal Caledonian Orphan Asylum, Bushey - Polling Paper
Polling paper issued to electors choosing applicants to be admitted to the Royal Caledonian Orphan Asylum, Bushey, Hertfordshire. Date: 1908

POLLING STATION 1978
A mother takes her daughter with her when she goes to vote at the polling station Date: 1978

COUNTING VOTES 1978
The votes are counted up but who will win? Date: 1978

CASTING A VOTE 1978
A woman casts her vote on polling day Date: 1978

COUNCILLOR / VOTER 1970S
The councillor-elect Rupert Kinross talks to a constituent in Shepperton Date: 1970s

POLLING A WILLOW 1873
Workmen polling (pruning) a willow tree on a riverbank. Date: 1873

William Hogarths Election 3 of 4
The Election- The Polling - scene at the hustings plate 3 of 4 Date: 1758

The Polling, Voting at an election by William Hogarth
3. THE ELECTION The Polling Date: 1758

Women trying to vote at New York polling station, 1871
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), noted American feminist, with her sister Jennie Claflin, try to vote in the New York election of 1871, but are turned away. Date: 1871

Winston Churchill returned as MP for Epping, 1924
Winston Churchill returned for Epping with big majority, October 30th, 1924 in the General Election. The scene after the declaration showing Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill and the Liberal

Polling Booth. Woman in mortar board stands beside a convict in his prison uniform. Captioned, Companions in Disgrace with an accompanying rhyme which begins, Convicts and Women kindly note

The advent of women at the polls, 1929
Two sophisticated and fashionable ladies in heels, cloche hats and fur trimmed coats alight from a taxi at a polling station where they will vote for the first time in the General Election of May

Irish Free State Elections, 1922
A busy polling booth in Dublin, during the Irish Free State elections. 1922

Italian Unification (1859-1924). Vote for annexation of the
Italian Unification (1859-1924). Francis II, king of the Two Sicilies (1859-1860) was forced to abdicate, while a plebiscite (21-22 October 1860)

Leave the votin to us men! Date: 1905

Germany, Bayern, Polling: Tower of the collegiate church (15th/18th century). Date: 2014

The Supporter. Two Men stand outside the polling station, one asks, You want to know why I am going to vote for the Womans suffrage man

Rise of the Labour Party in Britain by G. H. Davis
The rise of the Labour Party in the British Parliament over the course of 45 years, symbolised as a river growing wider and wider

Humours of Electioneering
Humorous illustration depicting a fresh-faced young farm worker casting his first vote in a General Election while a short-sighted gentleman marks his cross in another polling booth

Collecting charitable donations and votes
A biddable dog collects money for charity surrounding by a group of little boys in Croydon during the elections of 1909. He is a supporter of Robert Hermon Hodge, MP for Parliament

Thiers Votes
Thiers casts his vote in the election, at the polling station in the rue Saint- Georges

Jewish Voter at the Polling Station, London, 1910
Illustration showing an elderly orthodox Jew, at a polling station, London, 1910. This gentleman is shown indicating, to the presiding officer

Bleak Polling Station
The entrance to a rather bleak and deserted Polling Station, with the " Directions for the Guidance of the Voters" pinned to the door

Hogarth Election / 3Of4(C)
THE ELECTION The Polling - scene at the hustings plate 3 of 4

American Elections
A New York polling station in a ward inhabited by the Upper Ten - the ten thousand best people. Lincoln, incumbent president, is by no means their favorite candidate

Hogarth Election 3 of 4
3. THE ELECTION The Polling

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