National Assembly for Wales Constituency Boundaries as of December 2017

Government Digital Service provides digital vector boundaries for National Assembly for Wales Constituencies, as at 31 December 2017. The boundaries are generalised (20m) and clipped to the coastline. The dataset was last updated on the platform on 2022-10-26.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between constituencies and other geographic features based on the coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Conducting redistricting or demographic studies based on the 2017 constituency definitions.
• Integrating administrative boundaries into regional planning or policy analysis tools.

Strengths

• Boundaries are tied to a specific snapshot date: 31 December 2017.
• Data includes intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and ONS.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and KML.

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.
• Last updated 2022-10-26 14:28:19.964000; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries, likely derived from official cartographic sources.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2017.

Freshness

Snapshot from 2017; platform record updated 2022-10-26.

Geography

Wales, United Kingdom.