It's the election which is proving too tough to call - and two experts from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) will be analysing the General Election results as they happen live on the BBC.
Senior politics lecturer Alistair Jones and Tor Clark, principal lecturer in Journalism, will be on BBC Radio Leicester throughout the night as the votes are counted and results announced.
They will be joined by Leicester blogger Ashley Keir-Bucknall, who is a Master’s student in PR at DMU for the show, which will start at 10pm Thursday night and end at 6am Friday on 104.9FM.
The team will be giving their thoughts on the political results in the city and county as well as examining how the picture is emerging across the country.
Friday will see votes for local elections across the city and county be counted up and in the city, reveal the results for Leicester’s elected mayor. Alistair Jones will be back in the studio providing expert commentary throughout the day from 10am to 6pm on Friday.
It is the third time that Alistair and Tor have been part of BBC Radio Leicester’s election night coverage.
Alistair said: "The election night broadcast may start at 10pm and finish at 6am, but I suspect that the outcome will not be known by that time, except to say that it will be a hung Parliament.
"It could easily take over a week to finalise some sort of agreement between two or more parties to get a result. Yet with each result that comes in, we will have the opportunity to speculate as to the potential consequences of that result.
"For the local elections across Leicester and Leicestershire and Rutland the issues will be about the extent to which governing parties lose seats and councillors. As for Leicester, the issue will also be about who can challenge Sir Peter Soulsby in the mayoral election."
Tor Clark, who has been a political journalist since the 1980s, said: "This is likely to be the most interesting General Election since 1992 and though we'll get the seat results on the night, it will take days, possibly weeks before we know how our government will be run.
"I'm delighted to be involved alongside Alistair once again and we're both looking forward to an exciting and historic night."
Posted on Wednesday 6 May 2015