After 56 declarations, Labour has won 37 seats; the SNP nine; Liberal Democrats five; and Conservatives five
It was a triumphant night for Labour which took dozens of seats off the SNP, including all six in Glasgow
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross lost his bid to return to Westminster, describing it a "historically bad night" for the Conservatives
First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney described the result for his party as "very, very difficult and damaging".
SNP casualties included Kirsten Oswald, Tommy Sheppard, Alison Thewliss and high-profile MP Joanna Cherry
Labour's Ian Murray, who comfortably held his Edinburgh South seat, has been appointed as the new Scottish Secretary
One final seat - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire - has yet to be called and will go to a re-count on Saturday. The Lib Dems are expected to win after SNP candidate Drew Hendry conceded defeat
Polling expert confident of 'broad pattern' of exit poll
Polling expert Sir John Curtice says he is confident the "broad pattern" of the exit poll result is accurate.
But he says whether his team has got it "exactly right is more debatable".
Ben Philip
BBC Scotland in Glenrothes
Image source, Getty ImagesNeale Hanvey, the Alba Party candidate for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, told me a poor performance for the SNP “has been in the making for some time”.
The former SNP MP, who defected to Alba in 2021, said he had tried to warn colleagues that policy decisions would result in this.
Hanvey says he is unsurprised by the exit poll result and says a Labour surge is because “the other guys are so terrible”, in reference to the Conservatives.
Asked how he felt he might do tonight, Hanvey said that he would be staying “to face the music” whatever the result may be.
Across the UK only three seats have been declared but the newspapers had to put out their first editions early. Their headlines are mainly based on the exit poll and the predicted landslide for Labour.
Lynsey Bews
BBC Scotland political correspondent
Since winning a majority at Holyrood in 2011, the SNP has defied political gravity as an election winning machine. But tonight the party is bracing itself for losses at the hands of a resurgent Labour.
The SNP’s troubles are well known - disillusionment over a lack of progress towards independence, internal divisions and the ongoing police investigation into party finances to name a few.
And even in a general election, John Swinney’s party has found itself defending its record in government - at times a difficult task after 17 years in power.
So where would defeat tonight leave the SNP? Senior figures say Swinney’s position is assured - having only been leader for a few weeks before the election was called.
But the first minister will face the challenge of trying to regain the political momentum in Scotland ahead of the 2026 Holyrood vote.
The debate over independence will continue - but a loss to Labour will leave the SNP with no immediate new hand to play when it comes to the constitutional debate.
Image source, Getty ImagesConservative MSP Murdo Fraser tells journalists at the election count for Perth and Kinross-shire that voters are “casting a verdict” on 14 years of Conservative government, with five prime ministers, and are “looking for change”.
Fraser, who is tipped to succeed Douglas Ross as leader of the Scottish Conservatives, says: "The situation in Scotland, clearly, is a very different one because it looks like people are actually making up their minds how to vote based primarily on a verdict on 17 years of the SNP in government and clearly have not liked what they have seen from the SNP and they're up for an even bigger change, potentially, in Scotland.
"It does look like, on the basis of the exit poll, the Conservatives might not just be looking to hold the seats we have in Scotland but actually might make gains."
Graham Stewart
BBC Scotland
East Renfrewshire is a classic bellwether seat.
For many years a traditional Tory stronghold, it went Labour in the party’s historic 1997 landslide - and if history repeats itself tonight this seat could give us an indication of whether the UK swing to Labour, suggested by the exit poll, is replicated to the same extent in Scotland.
It would be a remarkable turnaround from third place at the last election, but party sources here at the Clarkson count say they’re seeing evidence of votes piling up for their candidate Blair McDougall in traditional Tory supporting parts of the constituency.
That would suggest a lot of tactical voting for Labour.
The SNP’s Kirsten Oswald is defending a 5,426 majority over the Conservatives, but if the polls are accurate the Tory candidate Sandesh Gulhane could be squeezed into third place.
If the SNP hold the seat it might suggest the party is having a better night than the exit poll suggests.
Kevin Keane
BBC Scotland News in Dundee
The phrase being used repeatedly at the Dundee Central count is “on a knife edge”.
Parties are sampling the votes as they’re being sorted and say it’s close between the SNP and Labour.
It would be a titanic shift of the political tectonic plates if the SNP were to lose the seat in the city which voted for independence in 2014 by the largest percentage at 57%.
Nobody is saying Labour has won here but it’s certainly tense.
Image source, Getty Images"The SNP is going to lose a lot of seats, it would appear, tonight." the party's Angus Robertson says.
He says these are discussions around an exit poll and there is "wild speculation" about them.
The Scottish government minister says the Labour Party is going to win the UK general election with a very big majority and he congratulates them.
"The SNP is losing seats in this election here, what I do think though, because I've done my share of door knocking, is that what people really wanted was the back of the Tories out of UK government.
"This was a change election. It was Labour's slogan and it definitely cut through and it worked.
"As of tomorrow we're going to have Keir Starmer as prime minister and he's going to have to deliver on that change that was promised."
James Cook
Scotland editor
This is the first page of the SNP manifesto for this general election.
Its leader John Swinney said if his party won the most seats in Scotland that would amount to a mandate for negotiations with Westminster on a second independence referendum.
One problem for supporters of independence is that, absent an unexpected surge for Alba or the Greens, there is not an obvious alternative vehicle in terms of advancing their cause.
And it may also be the case that voters simply have other priorities just now, which may include a desire for better performance from both the UK and Scottish governments, in terms of the cost of living, public services, housing etc.
Katy Scott
BBC Scotland News
At the Glasgow count, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie says he fears that the country will see a change of government “but not a change of politics”.
“The Labour campaign has not set out bold, transformational propositions," he says.
“And if you see the rise of a far right party getting seats in Westminster for the first time, parts of the Tory party might try to re-align with them.
“That poses the sort of threat you see in the Netherlands and France.”
He said the Scottish Greens had their eyes on “three or four potential seats that are within reach”.
On the predicted losses for the SNP, he said that the majority of voters he spoke to who planned to move away from the SNP just wanted to “get rid of the Tories” and had not had a change of heart on independence.
Laura Goodwin
BBC Scotland News in East Kilbride
Former Labour MP and Northern Ireland minister Adam Ingram says “the boxes are looking good”.
Three counts are under way at the John Wright Sports Centre in East Kilbride for the seats of Rutherglen, East Kilbride and Strathhaven and Hamilton and Clyde Valley.
Ingram served in Tony Blair’s government after the 1997 landslide.
He has been out campaigning locally and says he thinks Sir Keir Starmer will be a very credible prime minister.
Putting any blame onto Nicola Sturgeon would not be a "good approach" for the SNP to take, says her former adviser Liz Lloyd.
She says the delivery of public services and unclear policy agendas over the past 18 months have contributed to them losing voters and the party needs to reflect “across the board”.
Political commentator Brian Taylor says the suggested exit poll landslide victory for Labour is a tremendous opportunity for the party but they will also have to "deliver very, very speedily".
Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent
The Conservatives are pretty plain that they think the exit poll is wrong as far as Scotland is considered. It’s predicting they could win 12 seats.
The party says it’s not a case of expectation management – they just genuinely don’t believe they’re in with a shot of gaining seats like Aberdeen South or Stirling and Strathallan.
The big Reform UK vote we’ve just seen in Sunderland might underscore their worries about their vote being split too, particularly when it comes to areas like Aberdeenshire North and Moray East.
We can’t stress the caveats enough – these are just predictions, and it gets very difficult to call on a seat by seat basis in Scotland.
Meanwhile the SNP will spend the first half of the night saying their exit poll total might not be wrong – while fervently hoping that it is.
Lisa Summers
BBC Scotland News
Edinburgh is notorious for being late in completing its declarations and there are usually some very bleary-eyed souls counting those final votes.
The counting at the Ingliston centre had been expected to be finished at about 04:30 but returning officer Paul Lawrence says he has heard anecdotally from polling stations that turnout has been a little lower this year.
With a few extra staff on duty, he’s hopeful of an earlier night this time.
Having said that we are anticipating the first declaration of five Edinburgh seats about 03:00 and given how tight things could get, nobody is counting their chickens yet.
David Wallace Lockhart
BBC Scotland political correspondent
Some in the SNP now thinking that 10 seats for them could be about right.
It’s going to all become a bit clearer once we start getting some seats in Scotland declared.
Reflecting on the exit poll, former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says the projected result is a "massacre".
Speaking to Sky News, Davidson says the word coming out of Conservative central office earlier suggests the Tories could be below three figures in terms of seats.
She says: "So actually 131 - while there is no dressing it up, this is a massacre - they've actually, if this is right, pulled a few back from where they thought they were."
Could be 'a difficult night for SNP', says Forbes
If this exit poll is correct then it will be a "very difficult night for the SNP" says Kate Forbes.
Scotland's deputy first minister says: "We know that in this election people were very much voting for a change from the disastrous Conservative government."
The SNP MSP says people have voted to see an end to the Tory government.
Forbes adds people were voting on a whole host of different fronts.
"This has been a change election," she says. "It's the word that has resonated with voters across the country."
She says the SNP will set out its "agenda to regain and rebuild the trust of voters across Scotland".
Kirsten Campbell
BBC Scotland political correspondent
If the exit poll is right this will be the first election the SNP has lost in Scotland since 2010.
For many in the party this will be a new experience. There’s a whole generation of activists who’ve only ever known victory.
The SNP’s membership grew enormously after the independence referendum a decade ago and it has enjoyed considerable success ever since.
But tonight could leave the party feeling deflated.
David Wallace Lockhart
Political correspondent
Some in Scottish Labour not buying the idea of the SNP dropping to 10 seats.