Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies to Regions Lookup (December 2020)

A lookup file mapping Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies to Scottish Parliamentary Regions as of 31 December 2020. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and was last updated on the platform in July 2022. It contains fields for constituency and region codes and names, likely facilitating administrative joins.

Use Cases

• Joining electoral data to geographic boundaries based on the constituency and region codes (SPC20CD, SPR20CD).
• Creating maps of Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies and their corresponding regions using the geospatial file formats.
• Validating or standardizing location data for Scotland against the official 2020 administrative boundaries.
• Analyzing the hierarchical relationship between constituencies and the larger parliamentary regions.

Strengths

• Provides a specific temporal snapshot of boundaries as of 31 December 2020.
• Includes both codes and names for constituencies and regions, likely supporting multiple join methods.
• Offered in multiple geospatial and tabular formats (GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, CSV, XLSX) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2022-07-22 14:50:50.455000; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely published as an official geography product via the Open Geography portal.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2020

Freshness

Data reflects boundaries from December 2020; platform record updated July 2022.

Geography

Scotland