AS Oxfordshire and the country goes to the polls, we've dug around the archives to bring you a flavour of elections past...

Oxford Mail:

  • We start off with the count at Oxford Town Hall in 1959

Oxford Mail:

  • Here we are in Black Bourton in March 1970

Oxford Mail:

  • One of the many cars used in Conservative Monty Woodhouse's motorcade in the elections 1970

Oxford Mail:

  • Ballot boxes arriving at Oxford Town Hall for counting of votes 1966

Oxford Mail:

  • Fast forward to counting in 1974 in the Town Hall

Oxford Mail:

  • Lord Mayor of Oxford Michael Maclagan announces the Oxford City results in 1970, to the joy of one fellow in the foreground

Oxford Mail:

  • Lack of enthusiasm was the only answer for the small crowd, pictured here, or maybe the rain, waiting for the result of the election in October 1964

Oxford Mail:

  • More celebrations in St Aldate's in June 1970

Oxford Mail:

  • Postman Joseph Baptiste arriving to vote at SS Mary and John School Oxford in April 1966

Oxford Mail:

  • Votes no oats for Dawn Ayres as she trotted into her local polling station at the Methodist Hall in Wolvercote in 1983