Summary

  • Conservatives have Commons majority of 12

  • David Cameron promises his party will 'govern as a party of one nation'

  • Ed Miliband quits as Labour leader. Ed Balls loses seat

  • Labour crushed in Scotland, with SNP winning 56 of 59 seats

  • Lib Dems routed, big names ousted - Clegg holds seat but resigns as leader

  • UKIP gets 13% of vote but Nigel Farage quits as leader after missing out on seat

  1. Exhaustion sets inpublished at 23:47 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Scottish Conservative leader tweets

  2. Post Question Time dinnerpublished at 23:21 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Journalist tweets

  3. Have your saypublished at 23:10

    Email:politics@bbc.co.uk

    Thank god they have all gone and the right party is running our country.

    Charles Burton

    I'm a 15 year old who's getting into politics, and it has been fascinating to see all of the events unfold. Like others have said, I'm lucky enough to be in a good position, with a good home and family, community and education. Others aren't so lucky, and I hope this Tory government do think about these issues, and reconsider points of view about tuition fees, for example. We're an economy moving away from crisis, and soon I hope this issues, as well as others are raised and taken with lots of thought by the government for all.

    Aidan, Semple

  4. Cats and foxespublished at 23:05 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    ITV's deputy political editor tweets

  5. Have your saypublished at 22:48 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Email: politics@bbc.co.uk

    Nicola Sturgeon is absolutely right, it is no longer business as usual with Scotland – first we need to scrap the Barnett Formula and secondly we need to resolve the West Lothian question PS “it is no longer business as usual with England Ms Sturgeon”.

    D Jackson , Manchester

    So who do we think Mr Cameron will give the poisoned chalice to?.... As Secretary of State for Scotland.

    Roy Thompson

  6. What a line up...published at 22:48 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The BBC's programme tweets

  7. Voting systempublished at 22:18 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The Electoral Reform Society tweets

  8. Looking aheadpublished at 21:53 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    UKIP's MP tweets

  9. How many votes?published at 21:25 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Editor of WATO tweets...

  10. Kind gesturepublished at 21:11 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    BBC Question Time team tweets

  11. Just a few characterspublished at 21:06 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Columnist, Independent on Sunday tweets

  12. Which seats changed hands?published at 21:05

    Despite the dramatic result, just 17% of constituencies switched from one party to another. Our map shows where they all are.

    How seats changed
  13. Just finepublished at 19:40 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Economist public policy editor tweets

  14. New linespublished at 19:12 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Newsnight's editor tweets

  15. From the creatorpublished at 19:02 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Creator of the #milifandom tweets

  16. Hunt still at Health?published at 18:32 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Chris Ship, ITV

  17. The (broadcast) oppositionpublished at 18:15 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

  18. David Miliband: 'Rebuild'published at 18:08 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    @DMiliband

  19. Brotherly thoughtspublished at 17:51 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

  20. Lab leader oddspublished at 17:46 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Columnist, Independent on Sunday tweets