Scottish Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries from May 2016

Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies (May 2016) Generalised Clipped Boundaries in Scotland provides digital vector boundaries for Scottish parliamentary constituencies as of 5th May 2016. The dataset contains three boundary versions: full resolution (extent of the realm), full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a generalised (20m) version clipped to the coastline. It is published by the Office for National Statistics under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituency boundaries based on the provided vector data.
• Analyzing geographic representation in Scotland based on the May 2016 constituency definitions.
• Clipping other geospatial datasets to Scottish parliamentary boundaries based on the coastline-clipped versions.
• Creating simplified (generalized) maps for visualization based on the 20m generalised boundaries.

Strengths

• Provides three specific boundary versions: full resolution (extent of the realm), full resolution clipped to coastline, and generalised (20m) clipped to coastline.
• Includes direct download file sizes: 25 MB for full resolution extent, 24 MB for full resolution clipped, and 3 MB for generalised clipped.
• Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights, indicating authoritative source data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is a snapshot from May 2016; political boundaries may have changed since.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 5th May 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:29.339873; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scotland