UK Ward to Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority Lookup, December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table mapping UK wards to Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies and Local Authority Districts as of December 2015. The dataset is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0 and was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Link electoral data to local authority areas based on the ward-to-constituency mapping.
• Aggregate small-area statistics to parliamentary constituency level using the lookup relationships.
• Analyze changes in administrative boundaries over time by comparing this 2015 snapshot with other vintages.

Strengths

• Produced by the Office for National Statistics, a key UK government statistical body.
• Has a specific snapshot date (December 2015) providing a clear temporal reference.
• Licensed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 for reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015 snapshot

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:16.477774; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom