Ward to Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies to LAD (December 2019) Lookup in the UK

A December 2019 lookup table mapping electoral wards and divisions to Westminster parliamentary constituencies and local authority districts across the United Kingdom. The dataset was published by the Government Digital Service and last updated on the platform in July 2022. It includes fields for codes and names for each geographic unit.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local-level statistics to parliamentary constituencies based on the ward-to-constituency mapping.
• Joining demographic or economic data to local authority districts using the provided LAD codes.
• Analyzing the geographic composition of electoral wards within their higher-level administrative boundaries.
• Validating or standardizing UK geographic identifiers for data integration projects.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot of UK administrative boundaries as of 31 December 2019.
• Includes both codes and names for three levels of geography: wards, constituencies, and local authority districts.
• Available in multiple formats, including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and CSV, facilitating use in different tools.

Limitations

• Last updated 2022-07-22 14:49:28.755000; freshness should be verified as boundaries may have changed.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale joins.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official geographic publication process via the Open Geography portal.

Time Range

2019-12-31 (snapshot date)

Freshness

Snapshot from 2019-12-31; platform record updated 2022-07-22.

Geography

United Kingdom