Vicmap Admin Ward Boundaries for Victorian Local Government Elections, 2017

The 2017 Victorian local government ward boundaries were created by the Victorian Electoral Commission for the Electoral Representation Review process. This dataset contains the polygon boundaries for all wards within Local Government Areas in Victoria, Australia, used for local government elections. It was superseded by the WARD_2020 dataset in August 2020 and withdrawn from the Vicmap Admin product in January 2021.

Use Cases

• Visualizing electoral ward boundaries for local government planning based on the polygon data.
• Analyzing historical electoral district composition based on the 2017 boundary definitions.
• Conducting spatial joins with demographic data based on the ward polygon geometry.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (TAB, MIF, SHP, WFS, etc.) for flexibility.
• Boundaries were created by the authoritative Victorian Electoral Commission for an official review process.
• Explicitly documented as superseded, providing clear versioning history.

Limitations

• The dataset is historical and was superseded in 2020, limiting current applicability.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Victorian Electoral Commission, on behalf of Local Government Victoria.

Collection Method

Created as part of the Electoral Representation Review process.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026 04 09 00:40:24.089288; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2017.

Geography

Victoria, Australia