It's general election time once again.

As the county - and the country - goes to the polls, now seems like a good time to reflect on previous decisively democratic days.

It's common for schools, community centres, pubs, and churches to be temporarily turned into polling stations manned by volunteers for the day, but photos from the Adver archive show that more unusual options like stables, supermarkets, a small post office, and a neighbour's garage were also considered in the past.

The 1997 general election is the earliest one we have retained images of, and it included a town hall event organised by the BBC and the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald to give citizens a chance to quiz candidates for the Devizes area.

One Wiltshire pub stayed open all night so that punters could watch the results be announced live on TV.

As always, a team of volunteers kindly gave up their time to help ensure things ran smoothly and that every vote dropped into the ballot boxes were correctly counted.

An early-noughties edition of the Adver highlighted how then-state-of-the-art technology like 'computers' and 'scanners' were being used for the first time to make the process a little easier.

If you haven't voted already, you've got until 10pm tonight.

After that, our live blogs will bring you all the important updates as the night progresses and Swindon and Wiltshire learn who its MPs will be for the foreseeable future.