HITTING the streets to visit voters on their doorsteps the Leave campaigners said they had been very well received, but still felt it was too close to call.

Swindon’s campaign leader Tim Swinyard said: “We have been going door to door all over the town this morning and it has gone very well indeed. People have responded positively and it has been interesting to hear their views. When people passing in cars saw the Vote Leave posters they sounded their horns and waved to us.

“It’s hard to predict who’s going to win, though. It’s very close and it’s difficult to use Swindon as a barometer to see how it’s going to go nationally.

“I’m confident, though, and people seem to have reacted positively to our campaign.”

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson was out early yesterday morning to cast his vote at The Tawny Owl pub in Taw Hill.

The North Swindon MP has not been actively involved in campaigning for either side on the referendum but he has written in his columns for The Adver that his gut instinct has always been to vote Leave.

As he left the Polling Station yesterday morning, he said: “I’ve voted leave.

“This is genuinely history in the making, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and it’s vital that residents of all persuasions take the time to come and vote because tomorrow we will wake up and whatever way people have voted is what’s going to happen.

“This isn’t temporary, people need to come and cast their vote.”

Asked what he thought the likely result would be in Swindon and the rest of the UK, Mr Tomlinson said it was difficult to make a definite prediction either way.

“I don’t think anybody can call this,” he said. “Even yesterday, everybody I was talking to would say they had really strong feelings one way or another but they’d still be thinking about it when they went to the polling station.

“This is a bit like the 1992 General Election, people will genuinely make their mind up as that pencil hovers over the ballot paper.

“All throughout the campaign people have presumed remain will win - that’s what the bookies are saying and that’s what the markets are suggesting – but then there is that chance that the country might want a change.

“If they do we’ll be waking up to a completely new start tomorrow.”

As the polling stations welcomed the after-work voters presiding officer Peter Richardson, who was overseeing proceedings at the Broadgreen Community Centre said that footfall had been down on the local elections held in May. But he pointed out that the local area surrounding the centre had a large Goan community, who would have been excluded from voting in the EU Referendum.

He estimated that by 6.45pm the centre had had 1,000 people through its doors, with 30 coming in to vote during the first hour of the morning.