![1945 election: Grace Wyndham-Goldie discusses a report with a colleagues. All are smoking cigarettes or and the man a pipe.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02mtw9w.jpg)
![Two Bedford trucks with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Television Service on the side. Various male crew are working by the vehicles and a large camera on a tripod is in the centre.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m02qj.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02mtwtp.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m03yt.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m06m6.jpg)
![Robert McKenzie manually moves the needle of the swingometer to point to 55 Labour gains.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m03s9.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m03tx.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m03nf.jpg)
![Robert McKenzie holding a clipboard in front of a graphic of constituencies titled 'The Battleground'.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m03l8.jpg)
![The four presenters for 1979 look relaxed posing for a promotional picture. They each wear white rosettes with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ in the centre.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m0352.jpg)
![Peter Snow showing a graphic called 'Con targets from Lab'. It's shaped like a archery target.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m039g.jpg)
![David Dimbleby looks relaxed in the studio for Election 1987.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m03hc.jpg)
![Peter Snow concentrating on a monitor. Behind him is a giant computer graphic of the UK showing the colours of wins and gains.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m0319.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m02xs.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m02lk.jpg)
![Fiona Bruce and David Dimbleby share a joke in the more airy 2005 election studio. Peter Snow leans on the desk behind.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02m02nd.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p02mtxxv.jpg)
![An overhead shot of the whole election studio, the green screen area is now huge. The presenters are arranged in a circular set.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p07gjb7z.jpg)
![Professor Sir John Curtice looks down from the balcony in the Elstree election studio](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p091q309.jpg)
![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.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p091q3nz.jpg)
Take a peek behind the scenes of past election broadcasts with historic photos from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Photographic Library.
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