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Polls open in Glasgow by-election Glasgow by-election polls close
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Voters are going to the polls in Glasgow North East to elect a new MP for the constituency. The polls have closed and counting is to get under way in the Glasgow North East Westminster by-election.
The seat was vacated by former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, who stood down as an elected member in June. People in the area have spent the day voting to replace former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, who stood down amid the Westminster expenses scandal.
Voters will go to one of 40 polling places in the constituency to elect one of 13 candidates to succeed him. He held the seat in the 2005 General Election with a 10,134 vote majority.
The polls in Glasgow North East opened at 0700 GMT and will close at 2200 GMT. The result should be known by the early hours of Friday. The result in Glasgow North East - which could be the last by-election before the next UK election - is expected in the early hours of Friday.
There are a total of 62,475 eligible voters in the constituency. Labour has been the main political force in the area for the last 74 years.
Brian TaylorPolitical editor Polling stations are closed in Glasgow North East.
In this contest, it looks like a choice between the previously dominant Labour party and the challenging SNP.
This time, though, there is also interest in who comes third.
Folk are wondering whether it is conceivable that the British National Party could oust the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to take third place.
Read Brian Taylor's blog
It neighbours the Glasgow East seat - which the Nationalists snatched from Labour last year in a stunning by-election victory - although SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has avoided making rash predictions of victory.
At the same time, Labour says it has learned the lessons of its defeat in Glasgow East and is taking nothing for granted.
There are a total of 62,475 eligible voters in Glasgow North East, which saw a voter turnout of 45.8% in the 2005 UK election.
A total of 13 candidates are standing.