Northern Ireland Electoral Ward Boundaries from 1993

1993 Standard Electoral Wards in Northern Ireland, provided as a polygon dataset. The data was extracted from the OSNI Largescale database, topologically cleansed, and attributed to create a seamless dataset. It is published by the Government Digital Service for OpenData under the Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Mapping historical electoral districts based on the 1993 ward boundaries.
• Conducting spatial analysis of demographic or socio-economic data aggregated to the 1993 ward level.
• Creating base maps for historical comparisons of administrative regions in Northern Ireland.

Strengths

• Data has been topologically cleansed to create a seamless polygon dataset.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including ESRI SHAPE, GEOJSON, and KML.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OSNI (Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland) Largescale database

Collection Method

Extracted, topologically cleansed, and attributed.

Time Range

1993

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Northern Ireland