Don't sit on the fence
I just love this photo - a clear message for voters at Plaistow in West Sussex. Although, given the problems with queues at some polling station, perhaps it should have said get yourself in gear and hurry up and vote!
Or perhaps more seriously this is an explanation for the Liberal Democrat vote drying up?
Portsmouth South's Mike Hancock and Chris Huhne in Eastleigh were the only Southern Lib Dems to increase their majority.
Dr Evan Harris was the shock casualty in Oxford West and Abingdon. Winchester and Romsey were more predictable losses.
In Dorset Annette Brooke just hung on, but maybe more damaging for the party in the long run will be all the dashed dreams - Guildford, Dorset West, Newbury - last week they were thinking maybe Reading, maybe Meon Valley... maybe not.
Welcome to the hustings! I'm Peter Henley, the BBC's political reporter in the south of England. From parish councils in Sussex, to European politics in Oxford, this is the blog for you. 
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