Summary

  • Alex Salmond to stand down as First Minister

  • Scotland votes No to independence

  • David Cameron says vote "settles will of the Scottish people"

  • Lord Smith of Kelvin to oversee further devolution

  • Voters answered: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

Live Reporting

BBC News staff

  1. West Lothian turnout

    Alison MacDonald, BBC Scotland News

    Official turnout for West Lothian is 86.2%.

  2. First to declare

    Clackmannanshire and Orkney are both expected to declare within the next 15 minutes. Who will be first?

  3. Glasgow hotel

    Eleanor Bradford
    BBC Scotland Health Correspondent

    I'm with the Better Together campaign at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow - they are looking increasingly confident.

  4. More turnout figures

    Andrew Black
    Political reporter, BBC Scotland

    Some more turnout figures for you: Renfrewshire saw 117,612 votes with an 87.3% turnout. Inverclyde: 54,601 votes with an 87.4% turnout, West Dunbartonshire: 62,532 votes, with turnout at 87.9% and Dundee: 93,592 votes with turnout at 78.8%.

  5. West Dunbartonshire turnout

    Update. West Dunbatonshire total votes 62,532 - turnout 87.9%.

  6. Falkirk turnout

    Falkirk turnout is to be announced "very shortly, as we speak" says counting officer Rose Mary Glackin.

  7. Hosie on Dundee turnout

    SNP MP Stewart Hosie in Dundee said: "Given what we have seen in parts of Scotland today, with turnouts of 85% and 90%, a 78% turnout here seems disappointing. In any other election, in any other referendum, a 78% turnout would be an extraordinary feat."

    Asked whether he was still hopeful that "Yes" would win the referendum, Mr Hosie said there was, for now, an "information vacuum".

    "Votes have not yet been counted, not a single result has been declared," he added.

  8. Angus count

    David Currie
    Reporting Scotland presenter

    Soundings from both camps suggest it could be quite close in Angus. We expect to discover the turnout figure at 01:30.

  9. Coffee break

    As the count enters the wee small hours, counting agents grab some coffee to keep their energy levels up.

    Coffee break

  10. Glasgow fraud search

    Colin Edgar, head of communication at Glasgow City Council, says the search for ballot papers which are the subject of an investigation of electoral fraud "will not delay the count".

  11. Looking disappointed

    Sarah Smith, BBC Scotland News presenter

    Early reports suggest Glasgow may have voted 54% "Yes" to 46% "No". However, "Yes" campaigners look a bit disappointed as they hoped the result would be more in their favour.

  12. No in East Lothian?

    "No" campaigners in Eat Lothian say they are certain they have secured at least 62% of the vote, based on a sample of 12,000 votes cast.

  13. Canavan optimistic

    Chairman of Yes Scotland Dennis Canavan tells the BBC he is optimistic that the campaign "can still win a famous victory".

  14. Fraud allegation update

    Aileen Clarke
    BBC Scotland

    These allegations, as I understand it, relate to 10 votes.

    The technical term for the allegation is "personation".

    This is where somebody claiming to be Joe Bloggs turns up at a polling station and votes. Then maybe several hours later when the real Joe Bloggs finishes work and turns up to vote there is a problem. 'I'm sorry sir you have already voted'.

    The allegation is that that has happened on 10 separate occasions at polling stations across Glasgow.

    They will now try to trace the number of those ballots when it comes to the count.

    We have noticed one of them being put aside in an envelope. That will form part of the police investigation as we understand it.

    The number of people registered to vote in Glasgow is 486,219.

  15. Western Isles update

    Catriona Maclennan, BBC Scotland

    The plane with the ballot papers from the Southern Isles (Uist and Barra) left Benbecula at 00:22 and is expected to land in Stornoway at approx 01:00.

    There had been uncertainty over how the papers would get here due to low lying fog all over the islands.

    Plan B was to transport the papers by boat from Uist to Harris, and then to Lewis by road, which would have meant a 05:00-06:00 declaration. Looking at a 03:00 declaration, approximately.

  16. Last Shetland boxes

    The islands of Unst and Yell are the last boxes to arrive in Shetland.

    Shetland votes

  17. 'Broken political system'

    Scottish Green party MSP Patrick Harvie, a supporter of the "Yes" campaign, tells the BBC that the UK has "a broken political system that has been propping up a broken economic system". The anger at this has been "channelled into something positive" in Scotland, he claims.

  18. Andy Murray surprise

    Kheredine Idessane
    BBC Scotland

    I was astonished that Andy Murray tweeted his support for independence in the early hours of Thursday.

    Partly because he had kept his own counsel for so long and partly because it came pretty much on polling day.

    I spoke to him about this very issue in New York a few weeks ago and he said he would play for an independent Scotland at the Olympics but he hadn't given it too much thought because he wasn't expecting it to happen.

    So when he said what he said yesterday it was game, set and match for the astonishment factor for me.

  19. Inverclyde count

    Sally McNair
    Reporter, BBC Scotland

    The count at Inverclyde, in the Waterfront ice rink overlooking the Firth of Clyde, is well under way. All 75 boxes from 38 polling stations were brought here within an hour of the polls closing.

    With just under 62,500 registered voters here, this is the fifth smallest council area in Scotland and should be one of the first to declare.

    Polling has been high, with queues at some of the polling stations before they opened at 07:00.

  20. Dundee City turnout

    Andrew Anderson
    BBC Scotland News

    Dundee City reports a turnout of 78.8%.