Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

The extent to which Scotland has become a contest between the SNP and Labour is striking, with the Tories dropping out of contention.

Prior to this contest, the Conservatives were in second place in 18 seats, and Labour only really had two marginal seats to target.

Now, Labour holds the majority of seats, with the SNP in second place in the key marginals.

And the Tories are only in second place in five seats.

Two of those are fairly marginal, in Moray - but otherwise the party lacks clear targets in terms of thinking ahead to any recovery.

And there are obviously questions about who leads the Tories, both in Scotland and the UK. Their future feels deeply uncertain.

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Police in Glasgow are investigating cases of suspected voter fraud.

Glasgow City Council reported four cases of alleged "personation" following Thursday's poll.

The offence happens when a person votes as someone else.

It is understood two of the alleged incidents are being investigated in the Glasgow South West seat and one in Glasgow West.

A council spokesman said: "Over the course of the day, we have received four reports of potential personation at polling places.

"The police subsequently asked us to extract three ballot papers from the count and this was done when the relevant ballot boxes arrived at the count centre."

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It has been 11 hours since the polls closed, but we still have three Scottish seats left to declare.

Two of those are Conservative seats in Dumfries and Galloway, but both have been vital parts of Tory governments over the past 14 years.

In the Dumfries and Galloway seat, Alister Jack is retiring from the seat he has held since 2019.

The outgoing Scottish secretary is hopeful of being succeeded by Conservative candidate John Cooper.

But this is a seat that has been passed from Labour to SNP to Conservative since 2015.

Just along the road in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, Mr Jack’s predecessor, David Mundell, is defending the safe seat he has held since 2005.

This was the only Tory seat in Scotland in 2005, 2010 and 2015.

About 250 miles away in Dingwall, a recount is under way in the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat.

There, bacon roll-toting Lib Dem Angus MacDonald is hopeful of unseating veteran SNP incumbent Drew Hendry.

We are expecting declarations fairly soon.

The scores on the doors at the moment are Labour on 37 seats, the SNP on nine, the Lib Dems on five and the Conservatives on three.

Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale admits she wasn't sure the party would be able to win after the 2019 elections.

Speaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, she says: "There were moments in the immediate aftermath of 2019 where honestly I and many people in the Labour party wondered if we would ever win again.

"I know I say that this morning and people go 'don’t be ridiculous', political tides turn and all the rest of it, but seriously it was existential.

"The journey travelled in that five-year period cannot be overstated. Real credit for that has to go to Anas Sarwar.

"He’s been able to do something that I couldn’t do, that other Scottish Labour leaders couldn’t do, which is draw back support from both yes and no voters."

The SNP’s Tommy Sheppard says the electoral swing from his party to Scottish Labour is "absolutely not a rejection of independence".

Sheppard, who lost his long-held Edinburgh East seat to Labour, believes his party lost focus and "fought amongst itself when it should have been fighting a common enemy".

Asked about Joanna Cherry's criticism of ex-First Minister's Nicola Sturgeon’s policy priorities, he said: "It’s not as simple as blaming one person.

"We need to look at ourselves, we need a period of introspection, but we also need to listen to what people are telling us.

"That’s the most important, and we’ve got a leadership of the party who is prepared to do that."

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Stephen Flynn held on to his seat in Aberdeen South, despite a tense battle with Labour’s Tauqeer Malik.

The SNP’s Westminster spokesman says it was an "extremely challenging" night for many of his colleagues who were caught up in the "Starmer Tsunami".

And he admits the party has little time to lick its wounds before being thrown into the Holyrood election campaign in 2026.

Mr Flynn says the party faces a battle to "rebuild trust".

“We don’t have long to fix this and that’s going to be challenging, deeply challenging,” he tells tells BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme.

"But when you are in politics and you are not willing to rise up and face the challenge, you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing.

"I like to think that we have politicians within this party who are willing to face the problems head on and try and find solutions which allow us to try and regain that trust that we have obviously lost."

Analysis: Huge turnaround for Labour from a low barpublished at 08:39 British Summer Time 5 July

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Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

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Labour has achieved a huge majority on a relatively low share of the vote.

In fact the party has ultimately been stronger in Scotland than in England - perhaps because of Reform having less of a presence here.

Labour’s vote share in England is currently 34.5% but in Scotland it’s sitting on 36.2%.

And Labour are coming from an even lower bar here.

Their share has gone up by 17 percentage points north of the border, while in England it has ticked up by just 0.5 points.

The SNP must learn from its "disastrous" general election result, according to a former first minister’s adviser.

But Geoff Aberdein, who was Alex Salmond’s chief of staff, says all is not lost for John Swinney.

He tells BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: "You have got to look at where things have gone contextually in the SNP, because they have had a rapid rise in a relatively short period of time over the last 20 years.

"They have got to learn from this experience.

"They have got to listen and they have got to start thinking about how they become a more competent government, because competent government is what has delivered the success they have had over the last 15 years."

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Alex Cole-Hamilton says the Lib Dems are having "a lovely day".

The Scottish Lib Dem leader says: "Let's remember this is the best Liberal Democrat result in our party's history.

"It speaks to the very positive upbeat campaign that Ed Davey led from the front with the colourful antics and stunts but with a deep message," he tells the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.

He adds that he previously stated there would be more "liberals than nationalists" on the benches of the House of Commons.

Cole-Hamilton says: "By goodness we have done that by a country mile."

John Lamont says he is honoured to be re-elected for the Conservatives in Berwickshire, Roxborough and Selkirk with an increased majority.

But he adds: "It clearly has been very difficult for my Conservative colleagues south of the border."

Lamont says the party will need to reflect on the "very, very disappointing" results and "rebuild and move forward".

He adds: "We’re losing hundreds of seats, lots of votes and we need to work out what went wrong."

Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray says the SNP needs to reflect on UK results.

He tells BBC Scotland's Results programme: "I think we all got a sense that this was going to be a UK-wide change.

"We were obviously trying to make sure that we were articulating what we wanted to see as part of that change.

"We talked about the impact that Brexit has had, the impact austerity has had and the impact of cost of living."

Gray adds that he is "devastated" for colleagues who have lost their seats and staff who will be losing their jobs.

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Labour's Michael Shanks won half of the vote in Rutherglen but turnout was down by 10%.

But speaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme he dismisses suggestions there is a lack of enthusiasm for the party.

Shanks says: "Some of the swings in the Labour Party to these seats are outstanding results, I have to say in seats we weren’t even anticipating we would have that kind of swing.

"Clearly people wanted to vote for change and they’ve gone out and done that."

Dave Doogan holds Angus and Perthshire Glens for the SNP with 19,142 votes, ahead of the Conservatives on 14,272.

Full result here

Iain Macinnes
BBC Scotland

As we await the outcome of the recount here in Dingwall, Lib Dem hopeful Angus Macdonald has been handing out bacon rolls to tired activists.

He is quite the picture resplendent in full Highland Dress, but no one is turning down his bag of goodies.

Macdonald is hopeful of beating the SNP’s Drew Hendry.

We’re expecting the result in the next hour.

Elsewhere in the UK, it's been a huge night for Labour with Sir Keir Starmer to be installed as the new prime minister with a commanding majority.

For the Conservatives, it's been their worst result in modern times with many high profile casualties.

Former PM Liz Truss lost her seat in South West Norfolk by about 630 votes to Labour.

Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps are among senior Tories to have lost their seats.

But Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has clung on to his seat with a slender majority.

Nigel Farage has been elected as an MP for the first time in Clacton, Essex, overturning a 25,000 Conservative majority. His Reform UK party has won four seats.

The Lib Dems are on 70 seats, up from 11 in the the 2019 election.

It hasn't all gone Labour's way - Jonathan Ashworth, a former shadow cabinet member is one of three Labour candidates to lose to independents standing on a pro-Gaza platform.

And former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as an independent, standing against his former party.

It looks like Labour won't quite equal Tony Blair's majority from 1997 but it will enjoy a huge margin over the opposition.

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Good morning everyone.

For those of you who have made it this far we are almost crossing the finishing line with just a handful of seats left to declare.

However if you are just waking up you are doing so in a vastly different political landscape.

Labour has won the 2024 general election with a landslide, including 37 seats in Scotland, at the current count.

The party has unseated prominent SNP figures, including Joanna Cherry.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar thanked voters for putting their “faith and trust” in his candidates, but said the hard work is only just beginning.

In stark contrast, it has been a torrid night for the SNP, who have lost 38 seats and are forecast to return just nine MPs to the House of Commons.

Former leader Nicola Sturgeon told ITV "questions would have be answered" on the party’s performance, while outgoing deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black described it as "cataclysmic".

However, Westminster leader Stephen Flynn did manage to keep hold of his seat.

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It has been an equally bruising experience for the Tories, with Scottish leader Douglas Ross failing in his bid to take the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East seat.

Mr Ross, who controversially replaced David Duguid, described the result as a "historically bad night".

Elsewhere, Reform has edged ahead of the Scottish Greens as the fifth biggest party in Scotland, but leader Patrick Harvie remained positive after his party increased their voter share.

Meanwhile, none of Alba's 19 candidates managed to win back their deposit, earning just over 11,000 votes between them.

And, democracy manifest, a recount is under way in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire due to an “accounting issue”.

Stay with us for the final results, reaction and analysis from our reporters across the country.

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

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It has been a tough night for Alex Salmond’s Alba Party.

The party’s 19 candidates corralled a total of 11,894 votes, and none of them won back their deposit.

A number of former MPs were running for Alba - Neale Hanvey managed the best result in Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, at 2.8% of the vote.

Kenny MacAskill won just 1.5% of the vote in Alloa and Grangemouth, while George Kerevan had 1.2% in Lothian East.

The party is focusing much more on the next Holyrood election, which uses a proportional representation system.

But those kind of figures are not going to return many MSPs either.

Jenni Davidson
BBC Scotland senior politics reporter

Counting is still continuing for both seats here in Dumfries.

It’s not clear why the counts for the Dumfries and Galloway and Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale seats are taking so long.

They started promptly at 10pm last night with the boxes of postal votes that were already at the venue and there have been no obvious problems since.

But one sign that we may be nearing a result is that David Mundell, who has held the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale seat for the Conservatives since 2005, has just turned up at the count.

He seems to have been waiting until things were nearing a conclusion to put in an appearance.

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross says the large Reform vote in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East was a "big factor" in not winning the seat.

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

The Lib Dems are up to five seats in Scotland, but their all-or-nothing form continues.

The party are specialists at digging in and defending seats in their heartlands; Orkney and Shetland is now Scotland’s safest seat, with a majority of 37.7% and both Edinburgh West and North East Fife have majorities over 30%.

But the party has lost its deposit in 28 seats - garnering less than 5% of the vote - compared to 13 seats in 2019.

In fact they have only broken into double figures in three seats which they didn’t win.

There are still a few left to declare, but that might not offer the springboard they were hoping for ahead of the Holyrood elections in 2026.