General election 2017: History of the TV swingometer

The swingometer has been a regular feature of election night coverage for six decades, aiming to explain the unfolding results in visual terms.

Daily Politics reporter Jenny Kumah's been looking at the evolution of a device that began as a simple hand-made prop.

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