The polls have shut, the counting has finished and the results are now in after a six week battle to win the votes of the British public.
Rishi Sunak announced the election in May and there's been a few issues along the way with postal vote delays and people in Scotland being unhappy that it was to be held at the beginning of the Scottish school holidays.
Keir Starmer's Labour party came into the polls as overwhelming favourites to take over and form the new government.
Follow our General Election Live Blog here
In Scotland it continued to be a battle between Labour and the SNP and here, we round up the full results from across the UK after a busy night.
Among the big casualties of the night for the Tories were Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt while Douglas Alexander returns to Westminster after taking the Lothian East seat for Labour from Alba.
A sea of red was beginning to sweep across the UK map and was in stark contrast to the picture of 2019.
On the cusp of victory, Sir Keir Starmer said the country was "ready for change" as Labour appeared on course for a landslide win in the General Election.
The Labour leader, who will become the UK's next Prime Minister, said "you have voted, it is now time for us to deliver".
An exit poll indicated Labour is forecast to have a 170-seat majority in the Commons, with the Conservatives reduced to their lowest number of MPs on record.
In his acceptance speech after being re-elected in Holborn and St Pancras, Sir Keir said: "Tonight, people here and around the country have spoken and they are saying they're ready for change.
"To end the politics of performance and return to politics as public service."
He added: "You have voted, it is now time for us to deliver."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here