European Electoral Region Boundaries for Great Britain, December 2015

Five vector boundary resolutions for European electoral regions in Great Britain, ranging from full resolution to ultra generalised 500m. The dataset contains Ordnance Survey and ONS intellectual property rights and was last updated on the platform in July 2026. File sizes vary from 191 KB for the ultra generalised version to 31 MB for the full resolution coastline-clipped version.

Use Cases

• Create electoral maps based on the multiple generalised boundary resolutions provided.
• Analyze the geographic extent of constituencies relative to the coastline using the clipped and realm-extent boundaries.
• Integrate historical boundary data into spatial analyses for the December 2015 period.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, with file sizes explicitly listed from 191 KB to 31 MB.
• Includes both Ordnance Survey and ONS intellectual property rights, indicating authoritative source data.
• Offers boundaries clipped to the Mean High Water mark and extending to the realm's extent for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a specific snapshot from December 2015; its current political relevance may be limited.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:21.393031; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain