Counting is underway at the Emirates arena in Glasgow for the Scottish Parliament election today.

Votes in four seats are being tallied today and four tomorrow.

The constituencies that will be announced later this afternoon are Glasgow Southside, where Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP is facing a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.

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Glasgow Times:

Maryhill and Springburn, Anniesland and Pollok are also being counted.

There other four seats, Cathcart, Kelvin, Provan and Shettleston will be counted tomorrow.

The regional list votes are being counted in tandem with the constituencies but the overall list vote cannot be revealed until all votes are counted tomorrow.

The SNP are hoping to hold all eight seats in the city.

While Labour and the Tories will be looking to keep their four and two seats respectively and try to add to them if possible.

The Greens are aiming to add to the one seat they have had in Glasgow since 2003.

Candidates have started to arrive at the count.

Nicola Sturgeon and Anas Sarwar are expected at some point this afternoon, closer to when the results are announced.

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf of the SNP is present at the Pollok count where he is a candidate.

Patrick Harvie of the Greens is a candidate in Kelvin and is also in the hall.

There are 30 counting staff for each constituency and another 30 handling the list votes on the peach ballot paper.

Some peach papers were posted in the ballot boxes for the constituency and are having to be transferred across to the correct counting stations.

Glasgow Times:

Because the Glasgow list ballot paper was so long with 23 parties and candidates to chose from the boxes filled up quicker and extra boxes had to be delivered to some polling stations.

The first results are expected mid-afternoon.

The Glasgow Times will bring you all the results as they happen.