Voting is under way in the most uncertain British general election for decades.
A final batch of opinion polls shows the two main parties still neck-and-neck.
Ipsos MORI in the Evening Standard puts the Conservatives on 36 per cent and Labour on 35 per cent while the Ashcroft National Poll has the two parties tied on 33 per cent.
With all the indications that the country is heading for another hung parliament, it is still unclear where the balance of power will lie after voting closes.
With so much at stake, party leaders were out early to cast their votes.
David Cameron arrived with wife Samantha at a polling station in his Witney constituency in Oxfordshire, and Ed Miliband and his wife Justine voted in his Doncaster North seat.
Before the polling, Mr Cameron had said the way voters cast their ballots would define a generation and appealed for more time to build a better Britain, warning a Labour government would be held to ransom by Scottish nationalists.
But Mr Miliband accused him of hiding the truth about deep spending cuts that posed a real and present danger to families' finances, and urged people to bring an end to "five years of unfairness, five years of failure".
In one of the biggest pre-election polls, a YouGov survey of 10,000 voters for The Sun had the main parties on 34 per cent each - but with 17 per cent saying they were yet to make up their minds.
In the past such a tie would have been enough to propel Mr Miliband into Downing Street but an SNP surge in Scotland threatens to rob Labour of dozens of its traditional strongholds north of the border and the chance to govern alone.
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