British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has not voted for himself on polling day after registering to vote in Westminster rather than his own marginal London electorate.
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He broke with a tradition set by his recent predecessors and voted at Methodist Central Hall, near Downing Street, on Thursday morning.
Incumbents of No.10 have in the past voted in the constituency they lived in while serving as an MP.
The Tory leader turned up to the polling station in Storey's Gate, a street overlooked by Westminster Abbey, with his dog Dilyn in tow, only an hour after polls opened.
He opted to vote in central London despite a heavy tactical voting campaign to oust him from his own Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat.
Johnson took the seat with a 5034 majority at the snap election two years ago but pro-European Union campaigners have urged Remainers to unite behind Labour's Ali Milani in a bid to topple the former London mayor this time around.
When the ex-journalist was elected to the seat in 2015, he was living in Islington, famously giving a statement outside his home when declaring for Leave before the 2016 referendum.
On polling day in 2017, then-prime minister Theresa May voted in her constituency of Maidenhead and David Cameron had his say in Witney in 2015.
Gordon Brown turned up to his local polling station in North Queensferry, in the Dunfermline and West Fife constituency he resided in and next to his own seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Tony Blair also voted with his family at a polling station in his constituency of Sedgefield, County Durham, in 2005.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn voted with wife Laura Alvarez in Islington North, where he lives and has represented as an MP since 1983.
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