Best of British: Chelsea pensioners file into their polling station before casting their votes at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, west London
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Big crowd: Journalists and members of the public photograph the Prime Minister and his wife as they cast their votes
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Away from London: Boris Johnson stand with his wife Marina, right, as they speak to family after attending his daughter Lara's graduation in St. Andrews, Scotland today
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Leave: Brexit campaigner Michael Gove and his wife Sarah Vine arrive at their west London polling station this morning. Earlier Mr Gove went out running in the London rain
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Scotland's First Minister and Leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon poses for photographers after voting at a polling station at Broomhouse Community Hall in east Glasgow
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A group of nuns smile and wave as they leave their local polling station in north London earlier today
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Abroad: Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and his wife Justine vote in the EU Referendum at a polling station in Gibraltar
A local resident leaves after casting his vote in a bus being used as a temporary polling station in Hull on Humberside
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Presiding officer Ahmed Z Jamee prepares to open the polling station at West Blatchington Windmill near Brighton
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Dozens will vote in this living room in the small Cumbrian village of Pica as 46 million registered voters nationwide have their say on whether Britain should remain in or leave the European Union
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People arrive to cast their vote in the EU referendum at a polling station set up in a residential garage in Croydon, south London
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Voter Mrs Anne Whitman enjoys a swim at Arundel Lido in West Sussex, which is also set up as a polling station today
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A woman enters the Sandbanks polling station situated in the North Haven Yacht Club in Poole harbour in Dorset
Landlord Ray Seavers pulls pints in The Bush Inn in the small Cumbrian village of Tallentire which is being used as a polling station
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Sue Hopgood polling clerk for Maldon District Council prepares the polling station set up at the Little Braxted Bakery in Essex
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Officials wait for voters inside a polling station being used in the EU referendum in a guest house annex in Dogmersfield, Hampshire
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A man walks into a polling station to vote in the EU referendum, in Etherow country park in Stockport
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A polling station at the White Horse Inn in Priors Dean, Hampshire, also known as the 'Pub with no name'
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The presiding officer of the polling station at St. John the Baptist Church in Stadhampton, southeast of Oxford, affixes a poster to the wall
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A polling clerk secures a polling station sign to a fence enclosing a 2S3 M-1973 Akatsiya 152-mm self-propelled gun howitzer, standing outside the Greenwich Heritage Centre in Woolwich, set up as a polling station
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The polling station at the Elite hair salon in Portland in Dorset is among a number of shops being used today
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A presiding officer and poll clerk drink a cup of tea while waiting for early morning voters at a polling station set up in a launderette in Headington outside Oxford
remarkable swings in gold and the futures. The Nikkei is a roller coaster...
The Brexit voting is over, and it’s time for the reckoning to begin. Polling stations have closed and the count is getting underway in the ballot to decide whether the U.K. quits the European Union or sticks with it. Results will trickle in from voting districts overnight, with the final outcome expected in time for breakfast in the U.K. — some time after 2 a.m. Eastern Time. With none of the usual exit polls available, investors will be keeping a close eye on those releases. Follow this live blog as we update you on what’s new, how markets may be reacting, and how the result is shaping up.
“The markets may have overreacted to the early results,” writes our columnist Brett Arends. :nohead: “Betting markets are now making Leave the favorite. But the big London results are only starting to come in, and they are heavily pro-Remain. London boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth have just reported, and they crushed it for Remain.”