Summary

  • SNP secures historic landslide

  • Nationalists win 56 out of 59 seats

  • Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems secure one seat each

  • Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy loses seat but vows to 'fight back' as leader

  • Douglas Alexander and Margaret Curran also high-profile Labour casualties

  • Lib Dems Michael Moore, Danny Alexander and Charles Kennedy also lose seats

  1. Political careerpublished at 04:08 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Tim Reid
    Political correspondent, BBC News

    Labour's Ian Davidson who lost to SNP in Glasgow South says he expects it's the end of his political career. #GE2015

  2. Edinburgh South Westpublished at 04:07 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Edinburgh South West from Labour

  3. Glasgow North Westpublished at 04:06 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Glasgow North West from Labour

  4. Knives out for Milibandpublished at 04:06 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Laura Kuenssberg
    Chief correspondent, Newsnight

    Ed Miliband leaving for his count looking pretty glum.

    Meanwhile, another Labour source tells me: 'They want Ed Milliband gone by Monday and a blood letting leadership battle ASAP'

    Labour Party leader Ed Miliband with his wife JustineImage source, Reuters
  5. Orkney and Shetlandpublished at 04:04 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael has held Orkney and Shetland. The only MP to survive the SNP landslide. His majority was cut from 9,928 to 817, with a 23.9% swing to the SNP but he held on.

  6. Family SNP team celebratepublished at 04:00 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Jane Lewis
    BBC Scotland

    Husband and wife #SNP team celebrate! Patricia Gibson now an MP, her husband Kenneth is an MSP. #NorthAyrshire&Arran

    Patricia Gibson new MP celebrates
  7. Glasgow Southpublished at 04:00 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Glasgow South from Labour

  8. Orkney and Shetlandpublished at 03:58 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Liberal Democrats hold Orkney and Shetland

  9. 'Murphy must go'published at 03:58 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Ex-Labour MP Ian Davidson, who has just lost his seat in Glasgow, says Jim Murphy can no longer be the leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

    Labour's Jim MurphyImage source, Reuters

    Mr Davidson says Labour had no inspiration or direction in the Labour campaign.

    "Morally, as the man who has lead us to the biggest ever disaster that labour has suffered in Scotland then of course he can't continue," Mr Davidson continues.

    "Jim has got to do the honourable thing and resign."

  10. Ayrshire Centralpublished at 03:57 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Ayrshire Central from Labour

  11. Inverclydepublished at 03:57 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Ronnie Cowan, who has won the Inverclyde seat for the SNP, tells BBC Scotland's Julie Peacock: "This is a genuine movement. The team has worked so hard. I am so pleased. I owe the people of Inverclyde a great deal of gratitude. I have a huge job to do for the people of Inverclyde for the next five years."

  12. Fife North Eastpublished at 03:55 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Fife North East from the Liberal Democrats

  13. Glasgow North Eastpublished at 03:54 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The Glasgow North East swing from Labour to the SNP was 39.3% - a new record.

  14. SNP landslidepublished at 03:53 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    @BBCBreaking

    SNP wins all 35 seats declared in Scotland so far; 24 to go #GE2015

    SNP leader Nicola SturgeonImage source, AFP
  15. Livingstonpublished at 03:51 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Livingston from Labour

  16. Glasgow North Eastpublished at 03:50 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    SNP gain Glasgow North East from Labour

  17. Aberdeen Northpublished at 03:48 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Steven Duff
    BBC Scotland reporter

    SNP's Kirsty Blackman wins Aberdeen North from Labour. #GE2015. Although, strangely no candidates on the stage?

  18. Coatbridge, Chryston and Belshillpublished at 03:47 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The swing in Coatbridge, Chryston and Belshill from Labour to SNP is an incredible 36.2%.

    Veteran labour MP Tom Clarke has lost his seat.

  19. Triple Portillopublished at 03:46 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Ken Macdonald
    BBC Scotland

    Alexander, Murphy, Curran: what some SNP supporters are already calling a Triple Portillo. #GE2015

  20. The story so far...published at 03:45 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

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