The BBC forecasts the SNP will win a historic fifth election, but fall short of an overall majority. Watch our live coverage above
Of the results declared, the Scottish Greens have won two important seats - they ousted SNP minister Angus Robertson in Edinburgh and took former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon's old constituency in Glasgow
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar admits his party has lost the argument for change and "is hurting"
The SNP won in Shetland, a seat which has spent 27 years in Lib Dem hands, and Labour took Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) from the SNP
Elections are also taking place in England and Wales where Labour leader Eluned Morgan has lost her seat. You can keep across the wider UK picture through our live coverage
Laura Maxwell
BBC Scotland reporter at the count in Motherwell
Still one constituency seat and seven regional list seats to declare here in Motherwell.
It will be some time yet, given the ballot boxes for Uddingston and Bellshill haven’t been opened, let alone verified or counted.
The word is that the long peach list ballot papers are slowing the process down.
Housing minister Màiri McAllan is going back to Holyrood with a comfortable majority of more than 4,000.
The SNP MSP won 13,006 votes in her Clydesdale constituency, with Scottish Labour coming second.
With just five constituency seats to declare, the SNP are by far the largest party with 55 but they have lost ground on where they where in 2021.
Màiri McAllan wins the Clydesdale seat with 13,006 votes.
Laura Maxwell
BBC Scotland reporter at the count in Motherwell
It’s a family affair.
Green co-leader Gillian Mackay has arrived at the count in Motherwell where the Central Scotland and Lothians West list seats will be declared.
She’s brought her husband, father and baby boy as her support team.
Jenni Minto has held Argyll and Bute for the SNP, with a 9% drop in vote share.
Minto is the minister for public and women's health and she polled just over 11,000 votes.
The Lib Dems came second in the seat, with Reform in third place.
Laura Maxwell
BBC Scotland reporter at the count in Motherwell
As we reported earlier, the SNP’s Neil Gray has retained his Airdrie seat.
In his acceptance speech, he praised John Swinney's leadership style during the election campaign.
Gray said the first minister had shown that “you do not stand down to the likes of Nigel Farage, you stand up to the likes of Nigel Farage.”
It's a Lib Dem win, with Adam Harley taking Strathkelvin and Bearsden from the SNP on 15,697 votes.
The SNP’s Jenni Minto wins Argyll and Bute with 11,019 votes.
Elunend Morgan, the Welsh first minister, lost her seat
It has been a while since we took a look at what is happening elsewhere in the UK, so let’s go around the grounds, so to speak.
In Wales, the Labour first minister has lost her seat, with Plaid Cymru now expected to be the largest party in the Senedd.
Eluned Morgan, who will step down as the party's leader, dropped to fourth in Ceredigion Penfro, behind Plaid, Reform UK and the Conservatives – becoming the first leader of a government in the UK to lose their seat while in office.
Polling expert Prof John Curtice said it was unlikely that Plaid would reach the 49 seats needed for a majority, but they “may not be far away”.
Current predictions put them at between 41 and 46, with Reform taking between 32 and 34 seats.
In England, meanwhile, Reform have gained more than 900 new councillors and control of six new councils, including Sunderland in the north east and Havering in London.
Labour have lost more than 700 councillors and control of 15 councils.
The Greens have also picked up two mayoral votes, in Lewisham and Hackney in London.
The SNP’s Martyn Day wins Falkirk East and Linlithgow with 14,465 votes.
The SNP hold another seat with 13,289 votes in Angus South for Lloyd Melville.
Former Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater became the first Green MSP to win a constituency seat earlier this afternoon.
Now Holly Bruce has become the second after she won the Glasgow Southside seat.
"Holly is going to be a great MSP," Slater says. "We absolutely weren't really expecting that, so I'm blown away.
"Two constituencies is amazing for us."
She tells BBC Scotland News that the party has built on its experience on Scottish councils.
"We've been building support, so this is a new milestone for the Scottish Greens in Edinburgh and Glasgow," she says.
"And it shows how that progressive agenda really has support, especially from young people."
Phil Sim
Scotland political correspondent
The redrawing of Scotland’s electoral map since 2021 has had potentially significant changes in the south of Scotland electoral region.
The region has lost the East Lothian constituency, which has been added into Edinburgh. And it has gained two seats on the other side of the central belt, in East Kilbride and Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse.
If the seat had been set up like that in 2021, then the addition of those two seats - won by the SNP - would have changed how the regional seats were allocated under Holyrood’s top-up list system.
Each constituency won in a region makes it that bit harder for a party to win a list seat - meaning the “notional” result we are comparing to in South Scotland has one fewer list MSP for the SNP, and one extra for the Scottish Greens.
It doesn’t necessarily affect who wins seats today - but it does affect how we view the change, when comparing back to 2021.
It's just after 17:00 and here's how the Holyrood electoral map of Scotland is looking. There are just 10 seats left to declare.
Another constituency victory for the SNP with Calum Kerr winning 14,091 votes in Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale.
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Lynsey Bews
BBC Scotland political correspondent at the count in Edinburgh
Image source, ShutterstockLorna Slater became the first Scottish Greens MSP after unseating the SNP's Angus Robertson in Edinburgh Central
After a flurry of constituency results here in Edinburgh, we're just coming up for air.
And there's no doubt the big winners are the Scottish Greens and the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
The former has delivered a historic result here with victory for Lorna Slater over the SNP's Angus Robertson in Edinburgh Central.
Meanwhile, the party's candidate for the Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith seat, Kate Nevens, added a chunky 19% to the Greens vote share to finish in second place.
The Greens are also anticipating some good results on the regional lists too.
Meanwhile, the Lib Dems have secured two constituency seats - adding to Alex Cole-Hamilton's share of the vote in Edinburgh North Western, and winning the new Edinburgh Northern seat over the SNP.
The SNP will be the biggest party by far but they won't get an overall majority, the BBC is predicting.
Polling expert Prof John Curtice says they will get between 59 and 63 seats in the Scottish Parliament, short of the 65 needed for an overall majority.
Clare Haughey wins Rutherglen and Cambuslang for the SNP with 14,969 votes.
There has been a second constituency win for the Scottish Greens, this time in Glasgow Southside.
Holly Bruce, who traded her career in law for politics, won Nicola Sturgeon's former seat from the SNP by just over 3,000 votes.
SNP minister Kaukab Stewart has been beaten into second place.
