Scotland election live: Labour gains from SNP in first Scottish seats declared

Analysis: Reform has surprisingly big impact on the Scottish resultsKirsten Campbell BBC Scotland political correspondent

For a party that barely campaigned in Scotland, Reform UKhas had a surprising impact on the election here.

Party leader Nigel Farage may have won his Clacton seat with46% of the vote, but he didnâ€TMt set foot in Scotland during the campaign.

Yet paper candidates in Glasgow beat the Greens and theLiberal democrats and in total Reform UK has polled almost 150,000 votes.

The 5, 562 the party secured in Aberdeenshire Northand Moray East looks to have cost Douglas Ross his seat. The SNP victor SeamusLogan won by 942 votes.

Black: 'Cataclysmic night' for SNP As Labour celebrate acrossthe country, the mood in the SNP camp could not be more different.

Mhairi Black, who stoodaside in Paisley and Renfrewshire South, was among those to see her former seatfall to the Labour landslide.

Johanna Baxter took thatconstituency ahead of the SNPâ€TMs Jacqueline Cameron.

The SNPâ€TMs former deputy Westminster leader described the result as "cataclysmic" and criticised the party for turning voters away by putting the blame on them.

"What was expected to be a difficult night for the SNP now looks set to be cataclysmic!" she wrote on X , external

"Blaming voters, or doing anything other than serious self reflection is precisely the kind of attitude that has turned so many away from the SNP."

'Tactically we got it right for once' - Alistair Carmichael Alistair Carmichael says says the Lib Dems ran a good campaign with a strong message.

"Tactically we got it right for once," he adds.

Speaking before the declaration, Carmichael predicts there may be more gains north of the border.

He says focusing on the cost of living crisis and leader Ed Davey discussing care mattered to a lot of people.

"The need for proportional representation becomes ever more apparent after tonight," he insists.

Douglas Ross undone by Reform UK voteAndrew Kerr BBC Scotland in Aberdeen

Reform UK did for the Scottish Conservative leaderDouglas Ross with a very high showing in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East that left him short of votes.

He lost the seat to the SNP.

I caught up with him as he came off the stage.

He said he and his team had spoken to thousands of votersand were aware of the impact Reform was having - as they did on the Tory voteacross the UK.

Ross admitted he could have done things differently inparticular with the whole affair of deselecting David Duguid from hishospital bed.

Heâ€TMll carry on as Scottish Tory leader until a replacement is found andhe told me he will remain as an MSP at Holyrood until 2026.

Suddenly there was better news for the leader as HarrietCross ousted Richard Thomson of the SNP and she becomes the new MP for Gordonand Buchan.

Labour wins big in EdinburghLisa Summers BBC Scotland in Edinburgh

Itâ€TMs 6am and we are all done here in Edinburgh - like elsewhere, the story isof big win for Labour.

They hold fourof the five seats in the capital, ousting all the SNP MPs - JoannaCherry, Tommy Sheppard and Deidre Brock.

Joanna Cherry wasclear, she believes part of the blame for what went wrong lies with the formerFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

She says theSNP lost its reputation for competent government and didnâ€TMt progress the casefor independence.

Cherrywho has had public run-ins with the party leadership over her views on genderreform, also accused Sturgeon of putting identity politics over realpolicy.

Scottish Tory leader fails to win Aberdeenshire North and Moray East Douglas Ross may well have lost the race to become MP for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, coming second behind the SNP, but he will not be retiring immediately from politics.

Indeed the outgoing Scottish Conservative leader has been dubbed "three jobs" by his opponents, as he had been serving as MP for Moray, a Highlands and Islands MSP as well as a professional assistant football referee.

He will remain as an MSP, but now from the backbenches of Holyrood.

Ross's decision to stand down as leader was one of the major twists of the campaign.

It came after he was controversially selected to stand forthe Aberdeenshire North and Moray East seat instead of David Duguid, who hadbeen in hospital and was effectively de-selected.

He said back in 2021 that he would step down as an MP at thenext general election, with his former Moray constituency broken up underboundary changes anyway.

But his change of heart angered some within the partyand he felt he could no longer continue as leader beyond the election.

Our integrity has been called into question, says Cherry Joanna Cherry says this is "Labour's night" in which the Conservative votes collapsed and went to Labour rather than SNP.

Cherry says the SNP must now have an "open and honest appraisal" of tonight's events to learn from them and reverse them in future.

She says there has been a lot of criticism about policy priorities formed under Nicola Sturgeon, with a focus on identity politics "perhaps to the detriment" of the public's priorities.

Cherry adds recent scandals may have called into question the party's integrity in the eyes of the public.

Labour wins in FifeBen Philip BBC Scotland in Glenrothes

After feeling a bit left out on the election results sideof things, the Fife declarations have finally been made.

The first declaration was Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldyshortly after 5am and it was a Labour gain - candidate Melanie Ward the winner- sheâ€TMs currently a Fife councillor.

She thanked outgoing MP Neale Hanvey who had won the seatfor the SNP at the last election before defecting to the Alba Party in 2021. Hedidnâ€TMt stay for the declaration.

Glenrothes and Mid Fife was the second seat to declarehere and story of the night, it was a Labour gain from the SNP.

The winning candidate Richard Baker replaced the SNPâ€TMsPeter Grant who was standing down at this election.

Richard Baker is a former MSP - so heâ€TMs making a returnto politics after working for a number of charities.

It was three out of three for Labour with a gain inDunfermline and Dollar.

Graeme Downie - a local councillor - the winner.

The outgoing MP - the SNPâ€TMs Douglas chapman is also steppingdown at this election.

It wasnâ€TMt to be a clean sweep in Fife for Labour though.North Eastern Fife was last to be declared and was gained by high-profileLiberal Democrat candidate Wendy Chamberlain.

She won the seat in the last election but boundarychanges made it notionally SNP so for the purposes of this election itâ€TMs seenas a Liberal Democrat gain.