European Electoral Regions (December 2016) Generalised Clipped Boundaries in Great Britain contains digital vector boundaries for European Electoral Regions as of 31 December 2016. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. It includes five boundary variants at different resolutions, with file sizes ranging from 197 KB to 31 MB.
Use Cases
- Map historical European electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
- Analyze regional political representation based on the 2016 electoral region definitions.
- Integrate electoral boundaries into geographic information systems based on the multiple resolution options.
- Perform spatial analysis clipped to the coastline based on the Mean High Water mark boundaries.
Strengths
- Provides five specific boundary variants, including full resolution and generalised versions.
- File sizes are explicitly listed, ranging from 197 KB to 31 MB.
- Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and ONS.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Time Range
- As of 31 December 2016
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.401605; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Great Britain