Millie waits patiently outside the Notre Dame primary school polling station in Glasgow as votes are cast in local government elections

Tellers Jenny Voyce, with her dog Mimi, Penny McNeil and Sue Winkler waiting to record voters’ intentions at a new polling station at the Turbine Theatre in the Nine Elms ward of the borough of Wandsworth, London

A dog owner walks her animal past a polling station in London

Boris Johnson arrives to vote with his dog, Dilyn, in Westminster

A couple prepare to enter the polling station at Dromore Central primary school as people vote in the Northern Ireland assembly election

Skye the cavachon cannot wait to get going outside a polling station at St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Belfast

Marley and Sandy outside a polling station in the Earlsfield area of London

A dog and its owner pause at Dromore Central primary school, Dromore

An owner and her dog at the polling station at Brandlesholme community centre in Greater Manchester

A voter arrives with her dogs at the Wimbledon village hall polling station in London

Another voter, with his labrador, at a polling station in Wimbledon

A dog leaves a polling station in Prestwich, Greater Manchester

A dog owner and his alsatians pass a polling station in Sunderland

An impatient spaniel awaits its owner in Sunderland

A pet waits patiently for its owner to cast their vote at a polling station at St Peter’s Marina, Newcastle upon Tyne