We’ll be keeping you bang up to date all night with the latest results and reaction from across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Mancunian Matters will be bringing you live coverage of the General Election throughout the night.

We might be a red city, but how green are our councillors? Manchester Friends of the Earth have reached out to all of Manchester’s prospective candidates to find out how highly they prioritise the environment.

A Manchester Ukip candidate has been branded a ‘bloody idiot’ by his own party after sharing a controversial post on Twitter.

As the tension and the media coverage builds in the final leg of the race to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, MM have got in touch with a local politics expert to get his views of how the atmosphere surrounding the General Election has changed in Manchester over the last 32 years.

Nick Clegg warned voters that a right-wing alliance of the Conservatives, Ukip and the DUP could form the UK’s next government, urging people instead to vote for the Liberal Democrats.

If Facebook likes were seats, the election result would be a coalition between Ukip and the Tories, with Twitter’s left-leaning community rooting for a Labour alliance with the Greens and SNP.

MM took to the streets of Manchester to find out whether Mancunians thought that politics was now more of a popularity contest rather than policy contest.

Ten years to the day since trans people were given the right to change their legal gender, MM caught up with Christine Burns MBE on how she managed to push through the pivotal bill.

With parliament dissolved, all MPs are returning to their constituencies. The door knocking, letter dropping and sign erecting begins.

Millions will be watching Salford tonight as the leaders of the country’s biggest political parties take part in the first televised debate of the election season.