A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 46.9 million people registered to vote. But opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran leftist once written off by many as a no-hoper leading his party to its worst election defeat, has run a strong campaign.
Initially, the Conservatives were as much as 20 points ahead in opinion polls, but Labour Party made significant upsurge later.
According to polls, Corbyn has the support of almost three-quarters of people between the ages of 18 and 24 but the demographic also has the lowest turnout rates.
A Press Association "poll of polls" taking in 10 results from the past week - not including the YouGov seat-by-seat model - put the Conservatives on 44%, seven points clear of Labour on 37%, with the Liberal Democrats on 8%, Ukip on 4% and the Greens on 2%.
That attack led to an increased focus on national security as an election issue - and was expected to benefit May, who is seen as the most trusted leader on fighting terrorism, maintaining good relations with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies, and leading the Brexit negotiations.
However, with negotiations due to start so soon after the election, it is likely that the PM will still go into talks with her uncompromising message to European Union leaders that "no deal is better than a bad deal".
May argued that the opposition were obstructing "the will of the British people" and that she wanted to increase the size of the Conservative parliamentary majority in order to strengthen her negotiating position on Brexit.
Those negotiations will have an impact on Britain's employment, wages, housing prices, interest rates, immigration, trade levels, defense and security, public finances, and public services.
But the general elections are not expected to cause Britain to reverse its plans to leave the European Union.
The latest United Kingdom terror attack will undoubtedly influence Thursday's vote and that in turn will influence the strength and direction of the UK's Brexit negotiations. The Conservatives now have 330 to Labour's 229.
Pollsters still expect May's Conservatives to win, although talk of a landslide majority of more than 100 seats has faded.
Despite the setback, Mrs May continued trying to fight the campaign on her chosen battleground of Brexit, using a final message to voters to urge them to back her ahead of the negotiations with Brussels.
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It's unclear whether the U.K.'s anxiety about terrorism will benefit May, as the incumbent prime minister, or whether criticism of her record in government will hit home.
Prime Minister Theresa May is pinning her hopes on a "strong and stable" post-Brexit plans to entice voters. "But in practice, Britain's future prospects have not been properly explored during this campaign". The place where most people actually are.
That too would deliver Theresa May with a definitive victory over Jeremy Corbyn in tomorrow's General Election. "She also could find that she is trapped inside a more rightwing and nationalist conservative House of Commons, which would make the complicated and fraught Article 50 negotiations extremely problematic".
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats supposed surge appeared to grind to a halt and is haemorrhaging voters to both major parties, with two fifths claiming they will cast their ballot for either Labour or the Conservatives.
In Scotland, the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has warned that a vote for Labour risks "handing the keys of No 10" to Theresa May, while leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland are also making their last pitch for votes.
After one of the most tumultuous years in British political history, polls have opened in the country's general election.
A poll from YouGov/The Times had similar results, showing a seven percent lead for the Conservatives.
But he said that is a "highly unlikely" scenario.
For May, the challenge is not only to win but to surpass handsomely the 12-seat majority her Conservative predecessor David Cameron won in 2015.
UKIP now does not have any deputies in the House of Commons.
Polls close at 10pm local time (21:00 GMT). In those circumstances, it will be very hard for the United Kingdom to deal with its European partners with a united front, which will reduce the chances that the country will get a good Brexit deal.
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