Voters will be watching closely on Thursday night and Friday morning to discover the results of referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU.

The first results may be expected just after midnight, with the Western Isles being the first Scottish area to declare at 1.30am, but the final outcome is not likely to be clear until 7am tomorrow.

Unlike previous elections there will be no early indications of who has come out on top because there will be no formal exit polls.

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Previous election results are also no likely to be much use and the 382 locals counting areas, containing 41,000 polling stations in total, are not the same size and shape as the UK’s 650 constituencies.

However, experts are confident that there will be certain patterns. London, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to vote Remain, while the Midlands and the north west will back Leave. It’s expected that university towns like Edinburgh will also vote in.

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So when can you expect to find out the result for your area? Here’s a quick guide to when authorities across Scotland and the rest of the UK are due to declare their results.

12.01am: Isle of Scilly, Gibraltar

12.30am: Newcastle, Sunderland

12.45am: London, Swindon

1am: Darlington, Oldham

1.30am: Basildon, Hartlepool, Merthyr Tydfil, North Hertfordshire, Salford, Stockport

2am: Angus, Blaenau Gwent, Clackmannanshire, Denbighshire, Dover, Hart, Ipswich, Malvern Hills, Neath Port Talbot, North Ayrshire, North Tyneside, North Warwickshire, Pendle, Richmondshire, Sandwell, Shetland Islands, South Lanarkshire, South Norfolk, South Tyneside, Stirling, Tamworth, Wandsworth, Warwick, Westminster, Wrexham

2.15am: East Ayrshire

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2.30am: Anglesey, Barrow-in-Furness, Broxbourne, Caerphilly, Castle Point, Crawley, Dundee, Enfield, Harlow, Havant, Hertsmere, High Peak, Hyndburn, Lambeth, Lincoln, Merton, North Dorset, North Lanarkshire, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Orkney Islands, Oxford, Plymouth, Ribble Valley, Rugby, Rushmoor, St Helens, Stroud, Swansea, Woking, Barking & Dagenham

3am: Barnsley, Bolton, Bracknell Forest, Bridgend, Bury, Camden, Cannock Chase, Charnwood, Chelmsford, Chesterfield, Chorley, Colchester, Conwy, Copeland, Durham, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Eastleigh, Epsom & Ewell, Exeter, Falkirk, Fylde, Gateshead, Gosport, Gwynedd, Haringey, Hastings, Inverclyde, Islington, Knowsley, Maidstone, Mid Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Moray, New Forest, Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Devon, North East Lincolnshire, North West Leicestershire, Oadby & Wigston, Peterborough, Reading, Renfrewshire, Rochdale, Runnymede, Sedgemoor, Shepway, South Bucks, Southend-on-Sea, Southwark, St Albans, Stockton-on-Tees, Stoke-on-Trent, Thanet,Torfaen, Uttlesford, Warrington, Wellingborough, Welwyn Hatfield, West Berkshire, West Dunbartonshire, West Oxfordshire, West Somerset, Weymouth & Portland, Wigan, Wirral, Wokingham, Wycombe, Wyre, Aberdeen

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3.30am: Barnet, Boston, Bournemouth, Brent, Burnley, Cambridge, Carlisle, Carmarthenshire, Cheltenham, Dudley, Dumfries & Galloway, Ealing, Edinburgh, Epping Forest , Erewash, Flintshire, Forest of Dean, Gedling, Greenwich , Halton, Hammersmith & Fulham, King's Lynn & West Norfolk, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lancaster, Melton, Midlothian, Milton Keynes, Newark & Sherwood, Newport, Perth & Kinross, Portsmouth, Powys, Preston, Purbeck, Redcar & Cleveland, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Rochford, Rossendale, Scarborough, South Derbyshire, South Hams, South Somerset, Staffordshire Moorlands, Surrey Heath, Sutton, Tandridge, Taunton Deane, Three Rivers,Tonbridge & Malling, Walsall, West Lothian, Allerdale

4am: Argyll & Bute, Ashford, Babergh, Basingstoke & Deane, Bassetlaw, Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolsover, Braintree, Breckland, Brentwood, Brighton & Hove, Broadland, Bromley, Bromsgrove, Broxtowe, Canterbury, Cardiff, Ceredigion, Chiltern, Corby, Craven, Croydon, Dartford, Daventry, Doncaster, East Hampshire, East Hertfordshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Staffordshire, Eastbourne, Elmbridge, Fareham, Fife, Forest Heath, Gloucester, Hambleton, Harrogate, Harrow, Havering, Horsham, Huntingdonshire, Lewes, Lewisham, Lichfield, Mansfield, Mendip, Mid Devon, Middlesbrough, Mole Valley, Newham, North Kesteven, Northern Ireland, Norwich, Pembrokeshire, Redbridge, Redditch, Rother, Rotherham, Rushcliffe, Ryedale, Scottish Borders, Selby, Sevenoaks, Solihull, South Ribble, South Staffordshire, Southampton, St Edmundsbury, Stafford, Stevenage, Stratford-on-Avon, Suffolk Coastal, Swale, Telford & Wrekin, Tendring, Test Valley, Thurrock, Tower Hamlets, Trafford, Tunbridge Wells, Vale of Glamorgan, Wakefield, Waltham Forest, Watford, Waverley West Dorset, West Lancashire, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Wyre Forest, York, Aylesbury Vale

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4:30am: Bexley, Chichester, Christchurch, East Dorset, East Dunbartonshire, Great Yarmouth, Hackney, Isle of Wight, Kingston-upon-Thames, North East Derbyshire, North Lincolnshire, Poole, Sheffield, South Cambridgeshire, South Oxfordshire, Spelthorne, Teignbridge, Tewkesbury, Vale of White Horse, Wiltshire, Aberdeenshire

5am: Amber Valley, Ashfield, Blaby, Bradford, Calderdale, Central Bedfordshire, Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Coventry, Dacorum, Derby, Derbyshire Dales, East Cambridgeshire, East Devon, Eden, Glasgow, Gravesham, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, Kettering, Kirklees, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Mid Sussex, North Norfolk, Northumberland, Richmond-upon-Thames, Sefton, Slough, South Ayrshire, South Holland, South Lakeland, Tameside, Torbay, Torridge,West Devon, West Lindsey, Wychavon, Cotswold

5.30am: Fenland, Guildford, Highland, Bath & North East Somerset

6am: Bristol, Cherwell, Cornwall, East Lindsey, East Northamptonshire, Herefordshire, Hinckley & Bosworth, Leeds, Maldon, Medway, Northampton, Nottingham, Reigate & Banstead, Rutland, Shropshire, South Gloucestershire, South Kesteven, South Northamptonshire, Wealden, Windsor & Maidenhead Royal, Adur

6.30am: Leicester, North Somerset, Winchester, Worthing, Arun

7am: Harborough, Waveney