National Assembly for Wales Constituency Boundaries as of December 2018

Digital vector boundaries for the National Assembly for Wales constituencies, representing their state as of 31 December 2018. The data contains full-resolution BFE (Full Extent Boundary) boundaries, which typically extend to the Mean Low Water mark or beyond to include offshore islands. It is provided by the Government Digital Service and was last updated on the platform in September 2022.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituency boundaries for Wales based on the provided vector data.
• Analyzing changes in political representation by comparing these 2018 boundaries with other years.
• Integrating constituency boundaries with other geospatial datasets for regional planning.
• Creating visualizations of Welsh political geography for public information or research.

Strengths

• Boundaries are provided at full resolution (BFE - Full Extent Boundary).
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Data represents a specific snapshot date of 31 December 2018.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2022-09-29 20:19:45.566000; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely official government survey and mapping.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2018.

Freshness

Data snapshot is from 2018; platform record was updated in 2022.

Geography

Wales, United Kingdom.