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

Live Reporting

Thomas McGuigan, Steve Brocklehurst, Graham Fraser, Louise Sayers, Jo Perry and Rachel Grant

  1. Michael Moore conceding defeat

    Cameron Buttle
    BBC Scotland

    Lib Dem Michael Moore tells BBC that Berwickshire Roxburgh and Selkirk is now a two-horse-race, and "I have to accept I'm not one of them" #GE2015

  2. 30% swing in East Ren?

    Daily Record's Anna Burnside: SNP campaign manager in Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat has told her that their polls show an SNP win with a 10% majority - which would be a swing of 30ish%.

  3. Exit poll still on track...

    bbc pacific quay

  4. Edinburgh

    Sarah Smith, BBC Scotland

    #GE2015 senior Labour sources say they have lost Edinburgh North East, Edinburgh East and Edinburgh South West.

    Tactical voting making Edinburgh South too close to call. Labour losing 2:1 in traditional Labour areas but lots of Tories voting Labour.

    Also lots of tactical voting in Lib Dem held Edinburgh West. Labour and Tory vote seems to have collapsed and may keep Lib Dem MP in place.

    Votes being countedGetty Images

  5. Youth vote

    Aileen Campbell MSP's four-month-old son Crawford is pictured at the East Kilbride count.

    Aileen Campbell MSP's four month old son Crawford is pictured at the East Kilbride count.

  6. One-party state

    Former Scottish Lib Dem leader Tavish Scott says the result in Orkney and Shetland will be close.

    "I think Alistair Carmichael is going to win but it is going to be pretty tight.

    "The way this election is going tonight in Scotland I think it will be amazing for anyone to survive the tsunami that is the SNP vote.

    "I think Scotland seems to have voted for a one-party state and Alistair may be the only one who counters that."

    tavish scott

  7. No UKIP surge in Scotland

    Brian Taylor
    Political editor, Scotland

    No sign of UKIP having any success in Scotland despite doing well in early results in England.

    It is perhaps no surprise when one of their principle planks was depriving Scotland of millions of pounds of spending.

    What was it Nigel Farage said? 'Cash being shovelled over Hadrian's Wall'.

    UKIP leader Nigel FarageEPA

    You are hardly likely to impress the people of Scotland with a message of that nature.

  8. Inverclyde

    Keir Murray
    BBC Scotland

    From glancing around the counting tables, it's looking like Ronnie Cowan will win Inverclyde for the SNP from Labour's Iain McKenzie.

    Conservative councillor David Wilson feels confident Tory candidate George Jabbour will be third with about 10% of the vote.

    Former Lib Dem councillor Eric Forbes says his party will "take time to heal" after turnaround in policy over student fees.

    But he admits that the Lib Dems' policies in Scotland will need to change to focus on Scottish issues "rather than hanging onto the coat tails of Westminster".

  9. Douglas Alexander arrives

    douglas alexander

    Labour's Douglas Alexander arrives in Paisley and Renfrewshire South, not looking too happy.

  10. Fife going to the SNP

    Ken Macdonald
    BBC Scotland

    SNP Fife campaign coordinator David Torrance tells the BBC they will take all three seats here: Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Glenrothes and North East Fife.

  11. Salmond arrives at count

    Alex Salmond is greeted by cheers as he arrives at the Aberdeenshire count with his wife.

    Alex Salmond arriving at Aberdeenshire count

  12. South Lanarkshire

    Catriona Renton
    BBC Scotland

    Labour's Michael McCann just said to me "I don't need to talk to you. I'm not a politician anymore." #GE2015 #GE15 South Lanarkshire

  13. East Dunbartonshire

    Reevel Alderson
    Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland

    Liberal Democrat activists at the count in Bishopbriggs say things are "not looking good" for junior Employment Minister, Jo Swinson who has held the East Dunbartonshire seat since 2005.

    She's facing a strong challenge from the SNP's John Nicolson - although the Nationalists were fourth in 2010.

    Jo Swinson campaigns with Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles KennedyGetty Images

  14. North Ayrshire & Arran

    Jane Lewis
    BBC Scotland

    Labour delegates very grim-faced in North Ayrshire & Arran. One just told me "we could lose this by as many as 12 thousand votes." #GE2015

    Labour's Katy Clark had a 9,000 majority in 2010.

  15. 'Devastating losses'

    James Cook
    Scotland Correspondent, BBC News

    First Labour person I meet on arriving at Glasgow count: "A series of significant and devastating losses everywhere". #ge2015

  16. Jim Sheridan to lose seat

    Steven Godden
    BBC Scotland

    #GE2015 labour officials admit Jim Sheridan has lost the Paisley and Renfrewshire North Seat to the SNP.

  17. Turnout figures

    Before the expected deluge of declarations, here are a few more turnouts:

    • Glasgow Central - 55.5%

    • Glasgow East - 60.3%

    • Glasgow North - 61.4%

    • Glenrothes - 68.3%

    • Lanark and Hamilton East - 69.2%

  18. Labour 'looking awful' in North Lanarkshire

    Jamie McIvor
    BBC Scotland correspondent

    Labour sources - "looking awful" in North Lanarkshire. Expecting Tom Clarke to lose.

  19. East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

    Catriona Renton
    BBC Scotland

    Michael McCann, Labour candidate in East Kilbride, has apparently deleted his Twitter account.

  20. Kelso result 'neck and neck'

    Cameron Buttle
    BBC Scotland

    #GE2015 SNP source in the hall tells me they were just behind the Conservatives here in Kelso but now it's "neck and neck".

    Michael Moore has just arrived at the count.