European Electoral Regions in Great Britain, Ultra Generalised Boundaries from 2015

December 2015 digital vector boundaries for European electoral regions (EER) in Great Britain. The dataset contains multiple resolution versions, from full resolution to ultra generalised (500m), clipped to the coastline. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create historical electoral maps based on ultra generalised (500m) boundaries.
• Analyze regional political geography using coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis with different boundary resolutions (20m, 200m, 500m).
• Integrate electoral region data with other geospatial datasets for Great Britain.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, from 27 MB full resolution to 191 KB ultra generalised.
• Includes both extent-of-the-realm and coastline-clipped versions for each resolution.
• Contains boundaries as of a specific date: December 2015.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to uk_data, as it is a snapshot from 2015.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.426244; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain