Jo Perry
BBC Scotland news website

Thanks for staying with us over the past 21 hours. We hope you've enjoyed our coverage of a truly remarkable election.

We'll be back on Monday at 07:00 with Scotland Live.

In the meantime, you can keep up to date with all the latest election twists and turns on the BBC Scotland News website.

In a interview outside the Houses of Parliament in London for Reporting Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon said: "Last night was an outstanding victory for the SNP. We broke the swing-o-meter."

She said she made clear to David Cameron today that "he can't act now that it is business as usual in Scotland. People have voted to end austerity and have their voice heard and I look forward to having discussions with him in the weeks ahead."

Ms Sturgeon added: "Given that we do have a majority Conservative government... it is all the more important that we have SNP MPs standing up for Scotland."

She said the Smith Commission proposals had to be set out and strengthened and that she had "no proposal for a referendum".

There will be lots of serious and considered political analysis in the aftermath of the 2015 general election. Here PJ O'Rourke offers something else.

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Read the full article here.

It's sometimes difficult to catch everything during an election night whirlwind of facts, stats and spin. Here are 20 things you may have missed.

Tim Reid
Political correspondent, BBC News

Sturgeon says she congratulated PM; he congratulated her. She told him it "can't be business as usual" re Scotland #ge2015

At 1830: An extended #RepScot, with more #GE2015 reaction and analysis.

Watch on BBC One Scotland or via link

Political editor Nick Robinson on BBC News at Six said:

"This is undoubtedly David Cameron's personal triumph but is of course also Nicola Sturgeon's."

"So the only remaining question is 'can they ever live together - can Scotland live with the rest of the UK?'

"Or will David Cameron become the last ever Primer Minister of the UK and Nicola Sturgeon the first ever leader of an independent Scotland?"

Brian Taylor
Political editor, Scotland

Of all the comments on the overnight apocalypse, undoubtedly the most straightforward came from a defeated Scottish Labour MP.

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Since there were quite a few of them, let me narrow the focus a little. Come on down, Tom Harris.

Mr Harris had plainly anticipated defeat. Nonetheless, he looked suitably lugubrious as his fate was confirmed.

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Outgoing Labour leader Ed Miliband's brother tweets his reaction to #GE2015 result.

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The leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, is reportedly set to meet her 56 MPs tomorrow morning in Queensferry, near Edinburgh.

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In response to suggestions that David Cameron had stoked anti-Scottish sentiment during the election campaign, the former Conservative foreign and home secretary Lord Hurd said: "What David Cameron was doing was drawing attention to the fact that there are different parts to the United Kingdom and the biggest is England.

"By drawing attention to that he's not offending anybody, he shouldn't be offending anybody.

"It's only the Scots who have this peculiar feeling I think.

"I don't want to be rude about the Scottish Labour MPs but they are not the pick of the bunch."

Tim Reid
Political correspondent, BBC News

Sturgeon and Cameron spoke by phone before ceremony at the Cenotaph. They appeared together at the VE ceremony but aides say no discussions.

Russell Brand says he got "caught up in some mad moment" when he backed Labour and Ed Miliband before the election.

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The comedian has released a video on The Trews, his YouTube channel, saying at the time he thought he could "influence the outcome of an election".

Lord Hurd spoke to the BBC about the Conservative win.

The former foreign and home secretary said: "This is third time in my political lifetime that a Tory party, not favoured in the opinion polls, has swept to victory, to everyone's surprise."

He said it was a "remarkable thing and may tell us something about an underlying pull to the Conservatives, regardless of the issues".

"People like to hang on to what they know," he said.

"Some of them say lets do away with the rascals but outweighing that is the sort of feeling that David Cameron has done his best, a good job, and we'd be taking too big a risk with Ed Miliband."

It was billed to be one of the most unpredictable elections in generations - and that it has been.

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There have been some shock results throughout the night, with several household names across the UK losing their seats.

Here's a .

Find out how each party fared in constituencies across the UK, and compare turnouts.

You can use the interactive maps to see the share of the vote won by each party regardless of whether they won in that particular seat.

European Council President Donald Tusk has said he wants newly re-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron to make the case for EU membership.

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Mr Tusk said he was "deeply convinced that there is no better life outside the European Union, for any country".

Mr Cameron has pledged to negotiate a "better deal" for the UK and hold a referendum on membership.

Charles Clarke, the former Labour Home Secretary, has said there is a "real question" over whether Labour's Scottish arm should be a separate party.

He said that Labour's campaign in Scotland demonised the SNP in a way that backfired.

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He added that Nicola Sturgeon ran an "excellent" campaign.

"We just gave her a free hit and she just went for it," he said.

Mr Clarke said Labour needed to act quickly so it was in a position to challenge the SNP better at next year's Holyrood elections.

"I think there's a real question over whether we should simply say right now, the Scottish Labour party is an independent force," he said.

"It has it's own constitution, it's own operations, they're like the SDLP in Northern Ireland - a fraternal party."

David Cameron

tweets, external: "My final appointment tonight is Michael Fallon as Defence Secretary."

Commenting on the general election result Andy Willox, Scottish policy convener of the Federation of Small Businesses said:

"We congratulate the SNP on a truly stunning result.

"We look forward to working with all those now charged with making our voices heard in Westminster.

"No matter the scale of the political sea-change, though, the big issues facing the class of 2015 remain the same: sorting out the economy, securing the recovery and backing business to create jobs and raise revenues."