The percentage tally so far, with 17 out of 32 local authority areas declared, is 56% for "No" versus 44% for "Yes".

Morag Kinniburgh
BBC News Scotland

Scottish Borders declaration is due in 10-15 minutes.

"No" wins by 48,314 votes to 30,324.

That's 61% for "No" and 39% for "Yes".

Total votes 78,938. Turnout 90.9%.

Sally McNair
Reporter, BBC Scotland

Inverclyde was always going to be a close call. Labour MP Iain McKenzie said it could come down to a handful of votes: in the event it came down to 86 votes in favour of a "No" vote.

The result was declared to a hushed crowd here. This was predicted to be a significant count. In a traditional Labour stronghold, which has seen the Labour vote slipping, could the "Yes" campaign persuade enough Labour voters to give Labour a bloody nose? And would the result here be mirrored across the country?

Both sides say they fought hard for every last vote. The "Yes" campaign were very confident earlier in the week, even earlier in the evening. They are hugely disappointed but the SNP group leader on Inverclyde Council, Chris McEleny refused to be downcast. He said having come from so far behind at one stage in the long campaign, to finish up with 49.9% of the vote was a remarkable achievement.

"No" wins by 41,690 to 24,287.

That is 67% for "No" and 33% for "Yes".

Total votes 66,021. Turnout 90.4%.

Reevel Alderson
Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland

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Half of Scotland's local authorities have now declared their results.

The pro-Union "No" campaign is currently in the lead.

"No" wins by 84,220 to 59,390.

That's 59% for "No" and 41% for "Yes"

Total votes cast 143,664. Turnout 81.7%

"No" wins by 70,039 votes to 36,614.

That's 66% for "No" and 34% for "Yes".

Total votes cast 106,653 - a turnout of 87.4%.

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Simon Dedman, BBC Scotland News

Fife's official turnout is 84.1% with 254,163 votes cast.

"No" wins by 45,192 to 35,044.

That's a share of 56% for "No" to 44% for "Yes"

Total votes cast was 80,302. Turnout 85.7%.

Suzanne Allan
BBC Scotland

Perth and Kinross has been such a well behaved count that the police have a few minutes to sit down.

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

This is somewhere where the "Yes" side will need to be ahead in order to win the referendum.

The fact that the "No" side have won here, albeit with no more than 53.5% of the vote, is a further straw in the wind that the "No" side have won.

There is a big crowd in Edinburgh awaiting First Minister Alex Salmond's arrival. He's expected at Ingliston any minute now.

Prof Charlie Jeffrey of the University of Edinburgh said: "Midlothian was always going to be tough territory for the Yes side. It does not have the characteristics that we would expect to benefit "Yes".

"What has been interesting is the declarations around Glasgow which have not followed a particular pattern.

"We have seen Inverclyde vote against, we saw Renfrewshire vote quite strongly against but West Dunbartonshire for.

"We expected these local authority areas to have very similar patterns. They are not being similar. It is very tough to explain exactly why one is voting one and another a different way."

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

This was not somewhere we expected the "Yes" side to do particularly well but the "No" success of winning by 60% to 40% is further evidence that the "No" side are going to win this referendum.

"We've had our troubles in Falkirk," Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont tells the BBC. She describes the "No" win as "a really interesting result".

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

This is not somewhere we expected the "Yes" campaign to do particularly well. It is a relatively middle class part of Scotland in which the SNP are not particularly strong. But at 38% the "Yes" share of the vote is towards the lower end of expectations.