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. Rutherglen and Hamilton West

    Catriona Renton
    BBC Scotland

    Rumours flying around that SNP have won postal vote in Rutherglen and Hamilton West

  2. Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

    Jamie McIvor
    BBC Scotland correspondent

    Senior SNP sources "very confident" they may win Cumbernauld and Kilsyth based on early sampling.

  3. Dunbartonshire East

    Reevel Alderson
    Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland

    All of the ballot boxes for the East Dunbartonshire constituency have now arrived for counting at the Bishopbriggs Leisure Centre.

  4. Labour 'sceptical' of Exit Poll

    Robert Peston
    Economics editor

    Lab source: 'We are sceptical of the BBC poll. It looks wrong to us.' #GE2015

  5. No dancing Dornan

    Aileen Clarke
    BBC Scotland

    No dancing tonight for SNP MSP James Dornan, he's torn his Achilles!

    SNP MSP James Dornan

    Nonetheless he says he's feeling happy about Glasgow South #GE2015

  6. Unconfirmed rumours that Balls may lose seat

    Robert Peston
    Economics editor

    Rumours @edballsmp may not have retained seat. Unconfirmed. Obviously tight. #GE2015

  7. Results map

    BBC Scotland News

    You'll also be able to watch the #GE2015 declarations coming in on our Scotland results map.

    Watch the result coming in

  8. Linlithgow and Falkirk East

    Chris McLaughlin
    BBC Sport

    Just had a chat with one SNP member keeping an eye on Linlithgow and Falkirk East at the count here in Bathgate. He said the sampling so far has been "extraordinary" in favour of their candidate Martyn Day.

  9. Reporting from Perth

    Suzanne Allan
    BBC Scotland

    John Swinney watching the verifying closely at the Perth count. #GE2015

    John Swinney in Perth

  10. The mood in Gordon

    Kevin Keane
    BBC Scotland reporter

    Outgoing Lib Dem Sir Malcolm Bruce seeming pretty downbeat. Polls not reflecting what he was sensing in Gordon #GE2015

  11. Aberdeen

    Steven Duff
    BBC Scotland reporter

    Aberdeen has never returned an SNP MSP to Westminster. Could that change tonight?

    Well the SNP's Kirsty Blackman in Aberdeen North is very hopeful of taking that seat from Labour. It's been a Labour seat, in various guises, since 1935.

    Aberdeen South looks particularly intriguing tonight. Anne Begg has been there for Labour since 1997. Last week there was a lot of despondency from Labour but the mood music from the ground war in the last few days has been that it has really been tightening up.

    It would be pretty remarkable for the SNP to take Aberdeen south, given that they were in fourth pace at the last general election.

    Declaration times here should be about 04:30

  12. Paisley and Renfrewshire South

    The scene at the count for the Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat.

    Paisley and Renfrewshire South

  13. Glasgow 'personation'

    Aileen Clarke
    BBC Scotland

    There is one case of "personation" being investigated in Glasgow. You may remember that this also arose during the referendum vote where there were 10 ballot papers investigated.

    Personation is when someone turns up to cast their vote and they are told "I'm sorry we think you have already voted'."

    I understand this pertains to just one vote, in the Glasgow East constituency. When the ballot box arrives it will be identified and passed to the police.

  14. Exit poll: Analysis

    John Curtice
    Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

    Labour looks set to suffer as bad a drubbing in Scotland as anticipated by the pre-polling day polls.

    The party's vote appears to have dropped by around 18 points on average in constituencies north of the border.

    Coupled with an over 30-point increase in the SNP vote, it looks as though the SNP could win virtually every seat in Scotland, where of course Labour was defending 41 seats.

  15. Na h-Eileanan an Iar

    Catriona McLean
    BBC Scotland

    The first ballot papers arrive at the count centre for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, in Stornoway. More expected soon.

    Stornoway count

  16. Argyll and Bute

    Counting is well under way at Argyll and Bute. The two helicopters chartered to bring votes from the islands in this wide-spread constituency are expected to arrive around midnight.

  17. Perth and Perthshire North

    Hayley Jarvis
    BBC Scotland reporter

    Deputy First Minister John Swinney says it is "early days" but things are looking good, as he checks ballot papers being counted in Perth and North Perthshire.

    John Swinney

  18. Labour voters switch

    Brian Taylor
    Political editor, Scotland

    If the vote is as it appears for Labour tonight in Scotland then a number of factors have come together against them:

    • The decline of tribal loyalties, perhaps caused by the passage of time and the change in generations

    • a post-referendum feeling - mindset - about who stands for Scotland, who speaks for Scotland, potentially benefitted the SNP and it would appear has done so

    • A sense among some former Labour loyalists that the party made a mistake working so closely with the Conservatives in the referendum

    • Also a sense of community links that Labour party may have lost that the SNP built over a prolonged period.

  19. First seat goes to Labour

    In the first general election declaration of the night, Labour hold Sunderland South...

  20. Ballot boxes in sight

    Aileen Clarke
    BBC Scotland

    First ballot boxes arrive at Emirates arena for the Glasgow count #GE2015

    Count at Glasgow EmiratesAP