Scottish independence referendum: Scotland votes no - as it happened

We give you analysis of the results so far from two quarters now.

The Guardian’s James Ball says: “We’ve only got results for about 1.5% of the Scots who are going to vote tonight, but it’s not looking good for the yes camp”.

Turnout in the areas we thought were going to be great for them, like Glasgow, is a lot lower than the turnouts we’ve heard so far for areas expected to go for no.

Meanwhile, down at the Green Tavern in Edinburgh, Alan and Frank’s friendship is coming to an end.

The Orkney result (no 67.2%, yes 32.8%) was “very, very negative”, says Alan. “I feel it’s unexpected, but at the same time it’s a very small impact on the total vote,” he says, echoing James’s point.

More news from polling stations from the Press Association.

The Yes Campaign is also expecting to lose in Aberdeenshire - with some very downbeat SNP members at the AECC. There is talk that anything more than 45% for Yes across Scotland would be a good result for them.

In East Lothian, the No camp is confident of a comfortable victory, looking like about a 60-40 split.

The turnout in Comhairle nan Eilean Siar was 86.2%.

No campaigners at the Aberdeen City count are predicting a 57% vote rejecting independence.

Here is what Michael Gove, the Conservative chief whip, said about the government’s desire to push through constitutional change for England quickly. (See here.)

I think there needs to be a similar sense of urgency with both sets of changes. I think people in Scotland expect, following Gordon Brown’s announcement of a timetable that had been agreed with the three party leaders, that there would be a sense of pace about that process. I think there needs to be a similar sense of pace about making sure that England’s interests, and indeed Wales and Northern Ireland’s interests, are protected.

Allan Grogan, the co-convenor of Labour for Independence, believes the expected comfortable win for yes in Dundee should give Ed Miliband pause for thought, reports Steven Morris.

Dundee was once a Labour heartland but the SNP now dominates.

Grogan says his group has approaching 2,000 members, many of whom believe that Labour has lost its way in places like Dundee.

“I’m a member of the Labour party but I believe Scotland would be better as an independent country. Many Labour party members like me are angry that we haven’t been given a choice. We were told which way to vote.

“But this referendum should be a wake up for the party. Labour has lost its way, campaigning with the Tories, aiming policies at southern England rather than places like Dundee.”

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Brief statement from the police about the fraud investigations:

Police Scotland can confirm that they have received some reports of compromised votes. A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘Police Scotland takes the safety and security of the Independence Referendum extremely seriously and is working with partner agencies including local authorities and the Chief Counting officer to ensure the integrity of the ballot. Any crime committed will be investigated appropriately.’

Michael Gove, the Conservative chief whip, has just told Sky News that the government accepts the need to give England a new settlement.

He said that it now looked as if the UK was safe.

It appears to be the case, fingers crossed, that the United Kingdom will stay together.

But the rest of the UK “needs to have its position enhanced as well”, he said.

And he said this needed to happen very soon. The government would pursue it with the same urgency it intends to pursue giving more powers to Scotland, he said.

• Gove says he thinks the no side has won.

• He reveals that the government will pursue more devolution for England as quickly as it is going to offer more devolution for Scotland.

From this, it sounds as if Cameron’s statement later today will be relatively far-reaching.

It may not surprise you that most of those in the bar in New York with Nicky Woolf are very much pro-independence. Nicky has painstakingly counted every vote, and here is the full run-down:

For an independent Scotland: 66
Against an independent Scotland: 16
Don’t know: 12

Origins of people questioned:
Scottish: 37
American: 23
Rest of the UK: 5
Rest of the world: 9
The media: 20

Perhaps Alex Salmond should have allowed a wider franchise after all. PO

Lord Reid, the Labour former Scottish secretary, told the BBC there was no precedent in peacetime for bringing three separate parties together for the Better Together campaign.

Asked if it was a mistake not to put Gordon Brown in charge, Reid said it was best to put Alistair Darling in charge because he was acceptable to all parties. Gordon Brown was seen as too closely associated with Labour, he said. AS

There was huge disappointment among yes campaigners at the count in Glasgow when the turnout in Scotland’s biggest city was announced at 364,664 or 75%, reports Libby Brooks.

“That’s the worst news I’ve had all evening,” said one - and it has not been an evening of great news all round.

Yes had been confident that their work registering voters disillusioned with Westminster politics, and engaging with those who had never voted before, would bring in the crucial votes they needed to balance more no-leaning areas of the country.

The campaign mounted a huge get-out-the-vote operation on polling day, with people carriers and coaches in some parts of the city. The final turnout seemed the indicate that their efforts had fallen short.

It’s worth noting, though, that this is a low turnout in referendum terms only. It was around 41% for the last Holyrood election and between 50 and 60% depending on constituency in the Westminster election of 2010.

More turnout figures.

In North Ayrshire, the turnout was 84.4%, and in the Scottish Borders it was 87.4%.