Livestation is inviting all followers of the US election to join a global, live, interactive TV-over-broadband party as America votes for its next president.

Whether you are in Boston, Berlin, Bahrain, Beijing or Brisbane, you can gather with your friends – wherever they are – (and with total strangers) to watch the live TV output and chat about the outcome in real-time.

And, because some of Livestation’s partner broadcasters will have producers in the chat room, your comments might just make it on air. So you could have an impact on what gets discussed on the live TV output. And unlike other chat, the discussion is in the same player that’s streaming the live TV output, not locked away in a web page or floating disconnected from the action.

Whether you are in the comfort of your own home, in the office, in an hotel or sitting with your laptop on your knee – wherever you are, Livestation enables anyone with a broadband connection to follow the action, live, on their desktop, from anywhere in the world, and engage in instant chat about the outcome with other viewers.

And what’s more, it’s totally free, although you have to bring your own snacks and drinks.

Most of Livestation’s partner channels are hosting 12-hour TV specials offering a wide choice of perspectives, analysis and studio discussions as events unfold.

Al Jazeera English will be assessing the mood of a global audience as the drama of election night unfolds, by stimulating a worldwide chat in the Livestation player alongside the live TV output. Producers from the channel will be in the Livestation chat room gathering online reactions and feeding them directly back to the studio to be read out on air.

BBC World News has David Dimbleby, one of the BBC’s most experienced presenters, hosting an election special along with Matt Frei, anchor of BBC World News America. They’ll be joined in the studio by veteran newsman Ted Koppel offering global analysis.

euronews will be assessing the impact of the election from a European perspective and analysing how the outcome may influence future relations between Europe and America. The euronews coverage will be streamed in seven languages on Livestation.

France 24 has set up studios at the foot of the Trocadéro, where the largest American election evening outside the United States is being organised by Republicans & Democrats Abroad.

C-SPAN coverage starts with an in-depth look at how the 2008 elections will impact the next Congress. The channel will be taking feeds from both campaign HQs, interspersed with behind-the-scenes coverage, a studio discussion and viewer telephone calls.

ITN will be covering all the breaking news as the nation decides plus reaction from the US and the UK with reporters in Washington, at the American Embassy in London and inside a top showbiz party at Planet Hollywood.

Bloomberg will be looking at the likely financial implications of the result, while Deutsche Welle will be examining the outcome from a German perspective and Russia Today will be analysing the result from the Russian point of view.

All channels have active chat rooms attached to the live streaming, so please invite your friends (wherever they are in the world) and have an election chat party courtesy of Livestation.

To take part you need to have your Livestation player open, tune to your preferred channel, click on the chat tab and enter the discussion.