Wensleydale Railway employee Teresa Chapman is pictured with the Polar Express in the background, next to a polling station in a railway carriage as voters go to the polls, in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, England, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. Britain is holding an early election in wintry December, with a number of strange locations put in use as polling places. Among the places where Britons cast their ballots Tuesday were a car dealership, a laundrette, a Christmas grotto and of course some pubs. There were a few problems, including flooding at one location. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
British voters are choosing a new government to try to break the political stalemate over Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes his Conservative Party will win a majority in the House of Commons so he can take Britain out of the European Union by Jan. 31. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn hopes to stop him and has promised another referendum on Brexit. All 650 seats in the House are up for grabs in the first December election in nearly a century. Polls close at 10 p.m., with most results due early Friday.
