Off down to Brighton to do an event with the lovely people at @Labour4PR this evening. Some light reading for the train 
TIL that in the 1945 GE it was still legal for people who lived in one constituency and worked in another to register in both and vote twice. I assume it is no longer legal to do this. No idea when they changed it though.
1945 was also the first election where all the results were declared overnight. Between 1922 and 1935 less than half of seats declared overnight and before 1922 the voting itself was spread over two weeks
(The count night itself though was three weeks after polling day, to allow time for the millions of votes from overseas servicemen and women to arrive)
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