If you’re planning on staying up tonight to pray for a Democratic revival in the U.S., we hope you’ll find these listings helpful:

• On Radio 4 from 12:30am-5:20am James Naughtie and Shaun Ley present election night coverage from the U.S.
• From 8pm 18 Doughty Street’s programming focusses on the election, and is extended by two hours to 2am with election news.
• From 3am, BBC News 24 picks up the baton and at 6am they hand over to BBC Breakfast news

Sky’s listings don’t suggest an election special, but their listings often don’t bear any resemblance to what is broadcast. I’ve just switched it on to see if they’re advertising anything. If they do, I’ll update this post.

UPDATE: Sky election special from midnight

Also, keep your eye on Video the vote, a project to monitor problems with the electoral process by posting video evidence to YouTube.

Will Howells has a concise intro to what exactly is up for grabs tonight.

Our Boston correspondent

Liberal Democrat Councillor Paul Elgood is currently out in Boston, USA. He sent us this update:

Some facts and figures I’ve found interesting about the US midterms!

34 US House of Representatives seats are not being contested, the new gerrymandered boundaries make them so safe no-one is bothering to contest them.

Hillary Clinton (who is in a fairly safe senate race) has spent $29.5 million , including disbursements of $2.6 million to other campaigns and $2million media buy. So she’s not running? This echoes JFK’s big senate campaign effort prior to running in 1960 and George W Bushes’ in Texas in 1998. Both won big and were spring boards to the White House.

In one open House seat (Colorado’s 7th District), Republicans canvassed 50,000 households over the weekend alone.

The Republican Congressional Committee nationally has spent $2 million on phonecalls in the last week alone.

5.1 million absentee ballot papers were issued in California, which officials expect to make up 44 per cent of the votes cast.

42% per cent are expected to vote, the highest midterms since 1982.

Mr Bush spent the last whole day campaigning in … you’ve guessed it Florida! Funny that.

Bush’s approval rate has dipped to 35%

Polls in Indiana and Kentucky close as early as 7pm tonight (eastern time). Their Sunderland South is Indiana’s 3rd District (Mark Souder).

One to watch – Deval Patrick, Dems Candidate for Mass Governor.