National Assembly for Wales Constituency Boundaries as of December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for the National Assembly for Wales constituencies, as they were on 31 December 2016. The boundaries are full resolution and clipped to the coastline. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and was last updated on the platform in September 2022.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing changes in political boundaries over time by comparing this 2016 snapshot with other years.
• Performing spatial joins with demographic or election result data using the constituency geometries.
• Creating base maps for regional planning or public service allocation in Wales.

Strengths

• Boundaries are explicitly dated to a specific snapshot (31 December 2016).
• Data is full resolution and clipped to the coastline for accuracy.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and ESRI File Geodatabase.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2022-09-29 17:54:02.518000; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely official boundary delineation and digitization.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2016.

Freshness

Snapshot from 2016; metadata last updated 2022-09-29.

Geography

Wales, United Kingdom.