Scottish independence referendum: Scotland votes no - as it happened

The Glasgow result is coming soon. Yes have reportedly won.

Labour is claiming victory.

Here are some of the results that have just come in. I’ve taken the Press Association summaries.

In East Renfrewshire, No won 41,690 votes, compared to 24,287 for Yes.

In Dumfries and Galloway, No won a convincing majority with 70,039 votes against 36,614 for Yes.

In Aberdeen City, voters rejected independence by a margin of more than 20,000

The vote in Angus was won by No, with 45,192 votes against 35,044 for Yes.

Falkirk voted against independence by 58,030 for No and 50,489 for Yes.

East Lothian voted overwhelmingly against independence, by 44,283 for No to 27,467 for Yes.

Midlothian voted No to independence by a margin of 33,972 to 26,370.

Voters in West Dunbartonshire cast 33,720 ballots for Yes and 28,776 for No.

The full results are on our results page.

John Harris reports from Falkirk, which voted no by 53.5% to 46.5%. Some yes campaigners filed out before the result was announced, he says, “looking very deflated”.

The results are starting to come thick and fast now.

All the figures are going up on our results page almost as soon as they are announced, and you can also see them in the graphic above.

Roughly we’re halfway through. Here’s a summary

• The no camp seems to be on course for a comfortable victory. YouGov’s Peter Kellner declared he was “99% certain” that no would win when he published a poll of people who had voted showing no on 54%, and, as the early results have come in, mostly from relatively small authorities, they have shown yes clearly behind.

• Twelve of the 32 local authority areas have declared. Yes has won in just two – Dundee and West Dunbartonshire. But, because the authorities with large populations have yet to declare, yes could win by getting 50.76% of the vote in the remaining areas, I’m told.

• Michael Gove, the Conservative chief whip, has said it looks as if the UK is safe.

• Gove has said that David Cameron, the UK prime minister, will announce plans for some version of “English votes for English laws” - ie, a ban on Scottish MPs voting on at least parts of English-only laws – in a statement expected later today.

• National turnout seems to be heading for 85%. This is roughly on a par with the highest UK turnout for a general election (1950).

• Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister, has abandoned plans to attend the count in Aberdeenshire. AS
  

Can yes still win? James Ball writes:

We’ve got just under 20% of the count in now – so it’s still formally at least quite early – but things aren’t looking fantastic for the yes campaign. Falkirk, one of the larger voting districts and one yes could have expected to win, returned a fairly decisive “no” vote with a seven-point gap.

The yes campaign did get the crucial win needed in Dundee, but frankly if they hadn’t won in Dundee, they might not win anywhere.

It’s still significantly too early to make any final calls, but if yes won at this point, it would be one hell of a turnaround, and one for the history books – as if this vote weren’t historic enough already.

Here’s Alex Salmond’s deputy Nicola Sturgeon celebrating the yes victory in West Dunbartonshire, where the pro-independence campaign won 33,720 votes to the no campaign’s 28,776.

Alberto Nardelli has been doing the maths. He says:

On the current turnout there are about 2.9m votes left. Yes needs 50.76% of the remainder to win or 1,516,122 in total. The overall turnout, with just five places left to declare their turnouts, is 84.8%.

Dundee East MP Stewart Hosie (SNP) claimed a “stonking” victory for
the yes campaign in the city, which broke 57.35% for yes to 42.65% for no, Steven Morris reports.

“I’m delighted. It’s what we’ve been fighting for in Dundee,” Hosie said.

Grassroots supporters had predicted winning 65% of the vote. “We never did,” said Hosie. “This is a substantial win. We’ve delivered Dundee. Let’s see what happens elsewhere.”

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Chris Law (below, centre) of the Spirit of Independence group said: “This is great. It shows there is a huge wish for independence in this city. It is something to build on. We will get stronger.”

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But Jim McGovern, Labour MP for Dundee West, said the yes campaign would be disappointed by the result in the city.

“The separatists expected 65-35. They haven’t achieved that. They have failed in their aspirations here and they will fail in their aspiration to separate Scotland from the UK.”

The Guardian’s Alberto Nardelli said yes did not win in Dundee by a big enough margin in a city where it was expected to be very strong.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the depths of an Edinburgh casino, Josh Halliday sends this reaction to the Dundee result.