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
Eight former Scottish Liberal Democrats MPs lost their seats at Westminster to new SNP members. Here is the list of politicians who now find themselves out of a job.
The National
Patrick Harvie: Electoral system in dire need of reform ebx.sh/1Qs2C2S
BBC Radio Scotland
Scottish #GE2015 reaction and analysis continues throughout the day on @BBCRadioScot. Live: bbc.in/1dIT7dA
Laura Kuenssberg
Tories reach 323 in real seats - they have done it, and can govern on their own
BBC Scotland News
04:30 Labour holds Edinburgh South as Ian Murray becomes the only Labour member to hold his seat.
04:32 The outgoing Labour MP Margaret Curran tweets of new beginnings.
Image source, Twitter04:46 Outgoing Liberal Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell says "the union must now be at risk".
04:57 The Conservatives hold Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, with David Mundell gaining 798 more votes than the SNP's Emma Harper.
Image source, Getty Images05:17 Former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Jim Wallace says the price his party has paid for going into coalition with the Conservatives is "much higher than we ever expected".
05:20 Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy loses his Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat after 32 years to the SNP's Ian Blackford.
Image source, Getty Images05:33 Ed Miliband says Labour has seen a "huge surge of nationalism overwhelm our party".
Tim Reid
Political correspondent, BBC News
Farage says it was worries about Labour SNP coalition that made people vote for the Tories #GE2015
Tim Reid
Political correspondent, BBC News
John Reid: Worst mistake we could make would be thinking changing the captain on the ship will help, if ship going in wrong direction.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has not been elected in Thanet South.
He got 16,026 votes and was beaten by the Conservatives. He previously said he would resign as party leader if he was beaten.
Andrew Kerr
BBC News
At Scottish Labour Party HQ for press conference. A haunted looking Jim Murphy has arrived. #ge2015
BBC Scotland News
03:22- 03:36 SNP gain Stirling, Glasgow North, Lanark and Hamilton East and Glasgow East from Labour.
03:35 SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tells the BBC there has been a "historic shift" in Scottish political opinion.
04:40 Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell describes result for his party as "worse than anyone feared".
03:52 By this time, the SNP have won every one of the 35 declared seats in Scotland.
Image source, PA04:04 Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael holds Orkney and Shetland. His majority is cut from 9,928 to 817, with a 23.9% swing to the SNP but he holds on.
04:15 Alex Salmond wins Gordon for the SNP, a gain from the Liberal Democrats.
He tells his new constituents: "It is an extraordinary statement of intent from the people of Scotland. The Scottish lion has roared this morning across the country."
04:23 The Scottish Daily Express publishes it front page.
BBC News Channel
Former First Minister Jack McConnell has been speaking on BBC News Channel.
"This has been coming for a long time," he said. "All the unionist parties have been losing this for a number of years now, and not responding to the cross class politics of the 21st Century.
"To suggest the SNP has won all these constituencies in the Conservative heartlands of Scotland is because they're left wing is not true.
"It's been a catastrophic night for the Labour party in Scotland and one they need to learn from and quickly."
Mr McConnell said Labour had the wrong approach to UKIP and should instead "take them on on values, British values".
"Don't let this bunch of cranks with their wacky ideas dominate the agenda as they've done in the past few years."
He called for a huge debate inside his party: "Labour party has only won three convincing GE victories since 1966, all under Tony Blair. We need to be appealing across a wider range of people across the whole of the UK if we're to be back in power again."
High profile Liberal Democrats have lost three strongholds in the Highlands and Islands to the SNP.
Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander, former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy and John Thurso were beaten by large majorities.
The turnout for the constituencies involved exceeded 70%.
The SNP's Angus MacNeil held his seat in Na h-Eileanan an Iar - which covers the Western Isles - with 54% of the votes.
Image source, Getty ImagesCharles Kennedy was one of the leading Lib Dem figures to lose out
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Mhairi Black, of the Scottish National Party, has become the youngest MP elected in the UK for 350 years.
The 20-year-old now represents the constituency of Paisley and Renfrewshire South, outside Glasgow.
The law was changed in 2006, lowering the minimum age of parliamentary candidates from 21 to 18.
You can listen to her interview with Newsbeat here.
A change of this magnitude has not been previously seen in Scotland in a single election.
See our graphic analysis of the results here.
Newsnight policy editor Chris Cook, pointing out that some Conservative manifesto promises were "assumed to have been included as bargaining chips for coalition negotiation", wonders which will survive.
"The Tory approach to Scotland is another big unknown. With only one seat in the country, how would a Tory single-party government deal with it? There is an odd wrinkle in this: full fiscal autonomy."
He adds: "And, the Tories might calculate, having to impose a bit of local austerity, just as the rest of Britain gets spending growth, might finally knock the wind out of the SNP."
David Cameron says he hopes to govern for all of the UK as a BBC forecast gives the Tories 329 seats - enough to form a slender majority in the Commons.
"My aim remains simple - to govern on the basis of governing for everyone in our United Kingdom," he said.
"I want to bring our country together, our United Kingdom together, not least by implementing as fast as we can the devolution that we rightly promised and came together with other parties to agree both for Wales and for Scotland."
Image source, Getty ImagesBBC Scotland News
22:00 - 7 May: Exit poll predicts SNP will take 58 of the 59 seats in Scotland. The same poll says Labour will have 239 seats at Westminster.
00:38 Scottish Sun front page
02:11 The first result of the night...SNP gain Kilmarnock and Loudoun from Labour. Allan Brown gets 30,000 votes and unseats Cathy Jamieson of Labour on 16,362.
02:16 SNP hold Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles).
02:30-40 In the ensuing 15 minutes, the SNP gain Dundee West, Ochil and South Perthshire, Glenrothes, Falkirk and East Kilbride from Labour.
02:43 By securing the first 12 seats to be declared, the SNP describes the result as its best ever.
02:53 Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, Scotland's safest Labour seat and that vacated by the former prime minister Gordon Brown, falls to the SNP. The SNP's Roger Mullin takes 27,628 votes - a swing from Labour to the SNP of 34.5%. An amazing swing but just short of the 34.9% in nearby Glenrothes.
03:11 Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy loses his seat to the SNP, with a 24.2% swing to the nationalists. He says "the fight goes on" and says he'll continue as Scottish Labour leader.
03:15 Political Editor of the New Statesman George Eaton quotes a Labour HQ source as saying: "Ed has to resign tomorrow. Everyone here accepts that."
Douglas Fraser
BBC Scotland
Iain Duncan Smith: Tory govt will "keep it simple, keep it focussed, stick to manifesto". Says polls didn't catch late UKIP shift to Tories.
Click here to see our picture gallery of images from across Scotland as the SNP enjoy a landslide general election victory.
Image source, PAThe SNP will have its largest ever tally in the new Parliament, with 56 MPs. But who are the men and women representing the party at Westminster? Find out here.
