BBC Scotland lines up comprehensive General Election results service across television, radio and online

BBC Scotland’s news teams will bring audiences a comprehensive General Election results service across TV, radio and online as the declarations come in through the night of the 4th of July and into the following day.

Martin Geissler will present the results programme on BBC One Scotland from the BBC’s headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. It will start at 2155, in time for the first big moment of the night, when the results of the exit poll come through.

He’ll be joined by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, who’ll be interviewing a succession of politicians and commentators, alongside her other big job for the night, telling the story of Scotland’s election on the UK-wide results programme.

Reporting Scotland presenter Laura Miller will be at the election newsdesk, rounding up the night’s developing story.

And Political Correspondent David Wallace Lockhart will analyse the results with the help of the latest graphics technology.

Polling expert, Professor Ailsa Henderson from Edinburgh University will be with the team to offer her psephological knowledge and insights.

Away from the studio, reporters and correspondents will be live at all the key counts around Scotland as the story of this general election unfolds.

The programme will be broadcast through the night on BBC One Scotland and Radio Scotland. On Friday morning, Good Morning Scotland, presented by Gary Robertson and Laura Maxwell, will come on air at 0500 to take forward the story of the night.

The UK-wide results programme, presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie, will be available on the BBC News channel and on iPlayer.

The BBC News Scotland website will also be bringing the results from every count around Scotland, with analysis of the developing story across Scotland and the whole of the UK.

For our Gaelic audiences, Donald Morrison and Derek MacKay will present on Radio nan Gaidheal from 2200. There will be live digital coverage through the night, and extended radio coverage on Friday, followed by An Taghadh election roundup on BBC ALBA hosted by Anne McAlpine on Friday evening.

Gary Smith, Head of News and Current Affairs, BBC Scotland, says: “I’m delighted that BBC Scotland has such a talented team of presenters, correspondents and reporters to tell the story of Scotland’s election night on TV, radio and the website. And behind that team of course a brilliant group of producers, camera crews, directors and engineers.

“Election night is a fundamental part of our democracy, and it is one of the BBC’s most important public purposes to report and analyse the unfolding story for our audiences with accuracy, impartiality, insight and wit.”

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