10.50pm Some 21, 695 islanders were entitled to vote in this election. 4,531 applied for postal votes.
10.40pm Counting now well under way
10.15pm The first ballot boxes head for the counting centre in the Lewis Sports Centre
10pm Polls close
23.38pm All Stornoway votes counted. Ballot boxes from all Lewis polling stations are in the building.
23.21pm Five political hopefuls are contesting the Western Isles constituency.
Alasdair Allan -
John Cormack -
Ranald Fraser -
Rhoda Grant -
Ken Macleod -
All but Mr Cormack are present at the count
23.00 Ballot boxes from the Stornoway North and South being counted. Boxes from Point, Westside Lewis and Ness have arrived.
10.55pm Local turnout at the last Scottish elections (2011) was 60%. The figure for the 2015 UK ballot was 73.42%
2.45am SNP win Western Isles
2.25am Turnout over 61% -
1.40am Castlebay ballot papers being verified
1.37am Southern Isles ballot papers being verified at the count centre in Stornoway
1am Chartered aircraft lands at Stornoway Airport with ballot boxes from Southern Isles. Plane being unloaded for onward transportation to count centre
00.53am Plane from Uist and Barra due to land at Stornoway around 1am
00.38am Plane from Uist and Barra is enroute
00.02am Harris boxes have arrived in the count centre and ballot slips are being verified
23.59pm All 26 Uist and Barra boxes being loaded onto a chartered plane at Balivanich Airport
Number of votes:
Alasdair Allan -
John Cormack -
Ranald Fraser -
Rhoda Grant -
Ken Macleod -
Turnout: 61.14%. 59 spoilt papers
SNP and Labour vote down since 2011 election. Tories clinch their best local result for Scottish Parliament elections.
Vote 2016 -
6 May 2016