Scottish election results 2021: BBC Scotland's results coverage
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BBC Scotland will bring you comprehensive results coverage across online, social media, TV and radio.
We will be broadcasting from 25 live locations once the counts get under way at 09:00 on Friday.
As well as reporting every declaration, we will bring you analysis, background, reaction and debate.
Unlike previous elections, there was no overnight counting. The winners of the 129 Holyrood seats will emerge throughout Friday and Saturday.
Digital
The BBC's news website will be the key place to read, watch and listen to the latest news. You will be able to keep in touch with the emerging picture on your phone, tablet, laptop, internet-enabled television and desktop
To find out what is happening in every constituency and region of Scotland go to our live election page. Coverage will run throughout the day and resume on Saturday and Sunday
There will be video clips, picture galleries, blogs, analysis and news stories - from your area
Find out the key moments and reaction to the results on social media by following @BBCScotlandNews, external on Twitter and BBC Scotland news, external on Facebook
Television
BBC One Scotland will broadcast Election 2021 Scotland from 12 noon until 20:00 on Friday. It will be presented by Rebecca Curran and have expert analysis from BBC Scotland's political editor Glenn Campbell
As the story unfolds a panel of politicians and political commentators will be quizzed by broadcaster Gary Robertson
Laura Miller and Laura Goodwin will be on hand to bring the latest news
Rajdeep Sandhu and Sally Magnusson will report live from outside the Scottish Parliament. And David Wallace Lockhart will outline what the results mean with the assistance of a state-of-the-art graphic explainer
On results "day two" Election 2021 Scotland will be back on air at 12 noon with presenter Martin Geissler. The programme will run until 19:15 as the final counts come in
Martin Geissler and Fiona Stalker present The Sunday Show from 10:15 until 11:15 on BBC One Scotland. The programme will analyse the outcome and look at what is likely to happen when the new Holyrood term begins
Radio
BBC Radio Scotland will simulcast the TV election programme from lunchtime on Friday. Coverage on radio will also include a separate half hour digest at 13:00 presented by Hayley Millar. There will be a further one hour of news at 18:00 presented by Andrew Black and Hayley Millar
On Saturday morning, Laura Maxwell and Andrew Black will be on Radio Scotland from 08:00 until 10:00 with the latest news and analysis. The radio station will broadcast the live TV show until 1800 when Mhairi Stuart and Hayley Millar will host a one hour election special
The Sunday Show will run from 10:15 to 12 noon with Martin Geissler and Fiona Stalker
Gaelic
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal will include results coverage on Friday and Saturday, presented by Donald Morrison and D.A. Morrison
The BBC Naidheachdan team will be live from Inverness with an hour long special of An Taghadh on BBC Alba between 19:00 and 20:00 on Friday
On Sunday, Anne Lundon and the An Taghadh team will look back at the results
When might you find out your result?
This Holyrood election is like no other - when polls close at 10pm on Thursday, an overnight count will not happen. The results centres will only begin operating at 9am on Friday - nearly 12 hours after voting ends. The Covid pandemic has prompted a new way of working and because we have never had a day-time count before there can only be a rough guess on declaration times.
Friday declarations
There are 73 first-past-the-post seats and 48 expect to declare on the first counting day. They include;
Aberdeen Central
Aberdeen Donside
Aberdeenshire East
Airdrie and Shotts
Angus North & Mearns
Argyll & Bute
Ayr
Banffshire & Buchan Coast
Caithness, Sutherland & Ross
Clackmannanshire & Dunblane
Clydebank & Milngavie
Coatbridge & Chryston
Cowdenbeath
Cunninghame North
Cunninghame South
Dumfriesshire
Dumbarton
Dundee City West
East Lothian
Eastwood
Edinburgh Central
Edinburgh Southern
Edinburgh Western
Ettrick, Roxburgh & Berwickshire
Falkirk East
Glasgow Anniesland
Glasgow Maryhill & Springburn
Glasgow Pollok
Glasgow Southside
Greenock & Inverclyde
Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse
Inverness & Nairn
Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley
Kirkcaldy
Linlithgow
Midlothian North & Musselburgh
Moray
Motherwell & Wishaw
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
North East Fife
Orkney
Paisley
Perthshire North
Renfrewshire North & West
Rutherglen
Shetland
Stirling
Strathkelvin & Bearsden
Saturday declarations
There are 73 first-past-the-post seats and 25 are expected to declare on the second counting day. They include;
Aberdeen South & North Kincardine
Aberdeenshire West
Almond Valley
Angus South
Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley
Clydesdale
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth
Dundee City East
Dunfermline
East Kilbride
Edinburgh Eastern
Edinburgh Northern & Leith
Edinburgh Pentlands
Falkirk West
Galloway & West Dumfries
Glasgow Cathcart
Glasgow Kelvin
Glasgow Provan
Glasgow Shettleston
Mid Fife & Glenrothes
Midlothian South, Tweeddale & Lauderdale
Perthshire South & Kinross-shire
Renfrewshire South
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Uddingston & Bellshill
There are eight regional areas which will produce 56 MSPs. The winners of this contest will be declared after constituency results are known.
Central Scotland
Glasgow
Highlands and Islands
Lothian
Mid Scotland and Fife
North East Scotland
South of Scotland
West of Scotland
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- Published5 May 2021