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1945 election: Grace Wyndham-Goldie discusses a report with a colleagues. All are smoking cigarettes or and the man a pipe.

Grace Wyndham-Goldie discussing a report on the General Election for Radio Newsreel in 1945

Two Bedford trucks with BBC Television Service on the side. Various male crew are working by the vehicles and a large camera on a tripod is in the centre.

1950 Election: Television Outside Broadcast base, Wembley 1950

A overhead shot of the presenters sat at their election desk in the studio, a large UK map on the wall behind and a microphone boom visible.

Studio B at Alexandra Palace 1951

A production member rubs off numbers on a chalkboard with 'State of Parties' written on it with gains and losses tallied next to CON, LAB, LIB and OTHERS.

1955 Election: The Operations Centre in the basement of Broadcasting House.

Richard Dimbleby, centre, surrounded by presenters at the main desk, with a bank of monitors facing him. The swingometer graphic is on the wall behind and a large TV camera pointing at them.

1959 Election: David Butler, Richard Dimbleby and Robert McKenzie in the election night studio

Robert McKenzie manually moves the needle of the swingometer to point to 55 Labour gains.

1964 Election: Robert McKenzie with the swing indicator.

A behind the scenes shot of the 1966 election studio - a large TV camera facing the presenters, with a bank of monitors and a large number of people in the background.

1966 Election: Wires and bulky equipment are characteristic of a 1966 TV studio.

A view of the 1970 set, large graphics on the wall and presenters at desks in a circular configuration, with the cameras in the centre.

Election 1970 was the first election programme to be seen in colour.

Robert McKenzie holding a clipboard in front of a graphic of constituencies titled 'The Battleground'.

1974 Election: Robert McKenzie, one of the presenters of BBC TV's Election Night results programme

The four presenters for 1979 look relaxed posing for a promotional picture. They each wear white rosettes with BBC in the centre.

1979 Election: David Butler, Angela Rippon, David Dimbleby and swingometer analyst Robert McKenzie.

Peter Snow showing a graphic called 'Con targets from Lab'. It's shaped like a archery target.

1983 Election: Peter Snow using the electronic election night graphics enlarged on a back-projection screen.

David Dimbleby looks relaxed in the studio for Election 1987.

1987 Election: David Dimbleby at the helm.

Peter Snow concentrating on a monitor. Behind him is a giant computer graphic of the UK showing the colours of wins and gains.

1992 Election: Peter Snow goes through figures.

The election studio with a bright pink hue in 1997, the presenters at a giant round desk with the rest of the studio orbiting them. There are hundreds of monitors.

1997 Election: the studio in BBC Television Centre.

Peter Snow pointing at a large photograph of Tony Blair. He's dressed casually in an open neck shirt, in contrast to the formal suits of previous years.

2001 Election: Peter Snow on set.

Fiona Bruce and David Dimbleby share a joke in the more airy 2005 election studio. Peter Snow leans on the desk behind.

2005 Election: Fiona Bruce and David Dimbleby.

David Dimbleby posing on the balcony over the giant circular election studio. The formality has returned. There is now a giant green screen area at the side of the studio.

2010 Election: David Dimbleby anchored the coverage, seen here at Television Centre TC1.

An overhead shot of the whole election studio, the green screen area is now huge. The presenters are arranged in a circular set.

2015 Election: the studio during a camera rehearsal with Jeremy Vine in the digital green screen area. The coverage was broadcast from BBC Elstree Centre following the closure of TV Centre in 2012.

Professor Sir John Curtice looks down from the balcony in the Elstree election studio

Election 2017: Professor Sir John Curtice, whose Exit Poll is always widely anticipated, at a rehearsal in the election studio at Elstree.

The exterior of New Broadcasting House lit up in the election colours. A huge physical map of the UK in hexagonal squares is in the middle of the piazza.

2019 Election: Sophie Raworth standing on the General Election result displayed as a constituency map of the UK, in the piazza outside New Broadcasting House. The main election studio moved to New Broadcasting House for the first time.

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