UK Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries as of December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the United Kingdom, current as of December 2016. The boundaries are full resolution and clipped to the coastline. The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights and was last updated on the platform in September 2022.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies for demographic analysis based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing changes in constituency boundaries over time based on the December 2016 snapshot.
• Creating base maps for political campaign planning based on the full-resolution, coastline-clipped geometry.

Strengths

• Boundaries are full resolution and clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and ESRI File Geodatabase.

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.
• Last updated 2022-09-29 18:35:25.665000; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely official boundary delineation by UK mapping and statistical agencies.

Time Range

December 2016

Freshness

Snapshot from December 2016; metadata last updated September 2022.

Geography

United Kingdom