Millie waits patiently outside the Notre Dame primary school polling station in Glasgow as votes are cast in local government elections
Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

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
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A dog owner walks her animal past a polling station in London
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Boris Johnson arrives to vote with his dog, Dilyn, in Westminster
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A couple prepare to enter the polling station at Dromore Central primary school as people vote in the Northern Ireland assembly election
Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

Skye the cavachon cannot wait to get going outside a polling station at St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Belfast
Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Marley and Sandy outside a polling station in the Earlsfield area of London
Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

A dog and its owner pause at Dromore Central primary school, Dromore
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An owner and her dog at the polling station at Brandlesholme community centre in Greater Manchester
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

A voter arrives with her dogs at the Wimbledon village hall polling station in London
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Another voter, with his labrador, at a polling station in Wimbledon
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A dog leaves a polling station in Prestwich, Greater Manchester
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

A dog owner and his alsatians pass a polling station in Sunderland
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An impatient spaniel awaits its owner in Sunderland
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A pet waits patiently for its owner to cast their vote at a polling station at St Peter’s Marina, Newcastle upon Tyne
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