UK Westminster Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries as of December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the UK as at December 2016, provided by the Government Digital Service. The boundaries are generalised (20m) and clipped to the coastline. The dataset was last updated on the platform in October 2022.

Use Cases

• Create electoral maps based on the 2016 constituency boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of demographic or economic data aggregated to the constituency level.
• Study changes in electoral boundaries over time by comparing with other boundary datasets.
• Build geographic information systems (GIS) applications for UK political or civic purposes.

Strengths

• Boundaries are clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark), providing a realistic geographic representation.
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), indicating authoritative source data.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and ESRI File Geodatabase.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and attribute columns require manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2022-10-04 11:56:53.364000; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and specific column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service, likely incorporating data from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Collection Method

Official boundary delineation and digital vector creation.

Time Range

December 2016.

Freshness

Data reflects boundaries from December 2016; platform metadata updated October 2022.

Geography

United Kingdom.