Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies to Regions Lookup (December 2023)

Scotland's administrative geography as of 31 December 2023. This lookup file maps Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies (SPCs) to their corresponding Scottish Parliamentary Regions (SPRs). The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and was last updated in November 2023.

Use Cases

• Join electoral results to regional aggregates based on the constituency-to-region mapping.
• Visualize constituency boundaries within their parent regions for cartographic purposes.
• Validate data integrity by checking constituency codes against their official regional assignments.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot date (31 December 2023) for temporal accuracy.
• Includes both codes (SPC23CD, SPR23CD) and names (SPC23NM, SPR23NM) for each entity.
• File size is small (48 KB), indicating a simple, lightweight structure.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2023-11-27 09:58:51.354000; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative register or gazetteer.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2023.

Freshness

Snapshot as of 31 December 2023; metadata updated 2023-11-27.

Geography

Scotland