Senedd Cymru Constituencies: Names and Codes for Wales as of December 2023

Senedd Cymru Constituencies data provides the official names and codes for Welsh parliamentary electoral areas as of 31 December 2023. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and was last updated on the platform in November 2023. It contains two text fields for each constituency.

Use Cases

• Mapping Welsh parliamentary constituencies based on the provided geospatial file formats.
• Joining constituency codes to other datasets based on the SENC23CD identifier.
• Validating or standardizing constituency names in other datasets based on the official SENC23NM names.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot of constituency boundaries as of 31 December 2023.
• Includes both a code (SENC23CD) and a name (SENC23NM) field for each record.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (KML, GEOJSON) and a tabular format (CSV).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2023-11-21 12:54:51.976000; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative boundary publication.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2023.

Freshness

Data reflects boundaries as of 31 December 2023; platform record updated November 2023.

Geography

Wales, United Kingdom.