Photographs of dogs at polling stations is as traditional an election day sight as drookit canvassers huddled in the rain outside Scottish polling stations. Here, our picture editor Craig Alexander picks out his favourite political pooch pictures.

(Image: Photograph by Colin Mearns) A dog outside the polling station at Battlefield primary school in the Southside of Glasgow.

(Image: PA)  Helen Montague's dog Heston posing outside Marden polling station in Kent. 

(Image: Photograph by Colin Mearns) A dog outside the polling station at Pollokshields Burgh hall in the south side of Glasgow

(Image: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire) Dogs outside the polling station Pollokshields Burgh Halls in Glasgow 

(Image: Picture Gordon Terris Herald & Times) Glasgow West at Notre Dame School 

(Image: Photograph by Colin Mearns)

(Image: Picture Gordon Terris Herald & Times) Glasgow West at Notre Dame School 

(Image: Gordon Terris Herald & Times) Glasgow West at Notre Dame School 


Reggie outside a polling station in north London. 

(Image: PA) Cockapoo Clyde in St Neots