First time voters: the verdict

Newsbeat's first time voters proved one of the toughest election challenges faced by the party leaders.

David Cameron, Nick Clegg, and Gordon Brown, were each grilled by them on their policies and political records.

Throughout the campaign, the first timers kept their voting choices secret.

With a Lib-Con government installed in Downing Street, two of our panel reveal which party they went for, and how they now feel about that choice.

After a moment of almost voting for all of them, and almost voting Conservative, I bottled it and voted Labour.

I watched the first time voters Question Time the night before and there were a couple of different politicians from each party represented there.

They just gave me a totally different impression and I just felt a bit safer and a lot more secure in the Labour that I knew.

I think it is quite surprising that someone who got less seats, Nick Clegg, is now the Deputy Prime Minister, and we have a Conservative government.

It all seems quite confusing, a bit scary, totally new ground.

It was very odd watching it.

Everything was 'fresher, newer, greener, better' and it just seemed very over-rated, everything they were saying.

You did think any moment now they were going to hold hands and start singing.

I voted Labour.

It was a decision that I came to after meeting all three of them.

I felt that Gordon Brown can often be quite heavily misrepresented in the media.

The impression I got from meeting him... I thought he was a really nice guy and his policies did sit well with me.

I also thought he was going to be the most honest of them.

I found it quite confusing.

It got to the stage that it was in the media all the time, to the extent that they were almost flogging a dead horse.

I couldn't believe there wasn't quite a lot of corruption going on.

Whether it was a deal for Gordon Brown to stand-down, and that would allow the Lib Dems to negotiate, before they'd already made their mind-up.

I thought the start was like a failing comedy act, where they are just reiterating bad things they have said about each other before.

Ultimately, they are only getting on with each other for one reason - so they both have a say in what goes on.

They do need to get on, but they also need not to let slip their strong policies and sell-out just for the sake of being in the hot seat.