OSNI 50K Boundaries: Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituencies for 2010 Elections

OSNI 50k Parliamentary Constituencies 2008 delineates electoral boundaries for Northern Ireland. The boundaries were created under the Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 and used for the 2010 elections. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the 2008 boundary delineation.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between constituencies for political research.
• Integrating boundary data into webmaps or desktop GIS applications as noted in the description.

Strengths

• Boundaries are explicitly linked to a specific legal order: the Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (KML, ESRI SHAPE, GEOJSON) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Published for OpenData, originally delineated by OSNI.

Time Range

2008

Freshness

Data is from 2008, with usage noted for the 2010 elections.

Geography

Northern Ireland