3-052-553 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The General Election: reading the result of the poll, 1880. 'We present several Sketches of the Middlesex election on Saturday last, at the Brentford polling-place, "five minutes before" and "five minutes after" its precise moment of shutting up. Our Illustration of the scene at reading the result of the polling, in one of the metropolitan elections, may be regarded as generally characteristic of the manner in which the decision is made known to the candidates themselves, and to their most intimate political associates, who are admitted to the presence of the returning officer for this purpose'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.