I love it when I can combine three of my challenges – a photo a day, 2.7 miles of walking a day, and my 100 days of writing – with another personal (and I guess professional) interest.

After work today I decided to go for a little wander around the area to see where people of Camberwell were able to vote today. I love that for one day only a variety of venues change their purpose, and from 7am to 10pm become the home for democracy. Schools, churches, libraries, community centres etc, all turn into polling stations enabling UK residents to get involved in one of the most important elements of democracy, something we take for granted when you hear about the political situation in other countries.

Today may have only been local elections for councillors, mayors or police and crime commissioners, depending on where you live, but it’s just as important to vote in these elections as the general elections, even if it feels like there’s no point. The Mayor for London vote is undoubtably a two horse race between Labour and the Tories, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote if you don’t want either of them to win, and you don’t have to vote tactically. Things will only start to shift if more people vote for the other parties, as long as they are viable candidates of course. I considered today a great practice run for the big general election that we hopefully won’t be waiting too much longer for.

None of the eight polling stations I went by were particularly busy, but there was always a steady flow of people were going to cast their vote. It was interesting seeing the type of voter depending on the residential properties for which the polling station was assigned. Sadly I saw no #dogsatpollingstations, one of the highlights of any election.

Now we wait until the results are announced tomorrow. In light of the current political situation in the UK it will be very interesting to see how the country has voted, what party shifts there are and it will undoubtedly help with predictions for when we next go to the polls, where we’ll hopefully see some major shifts within Parliament.