The UK's leading design consultancies put a modern spin on the polls with these innovative graphics.

As we're sure you are well aware, the UK goes to the polls this coming May, and that's something we just couldn't ignore. In countries with a low level of literacy, the ballot paper often involves the use of symbols, sometimes quite mundane, that represent a political party in an apposite way. So we decided to create a ballot paper with six of the real candidates standing for the Thanet South seat and then asked some of the UK's leading design consultancies to come up with a graphic representation for each party.