Westminster Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries for Great Britain, December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in Great Britain as at December 2016. The dataset contains five boundary versions at different resolutions, from full extent to ultra-generalized, and includes intellectual property from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral districts based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing constituency shapes and sizes using the different resolution versions (20m, 200m, 500m).
• Integrating constituency data with other geospatial layers using the coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Visualizing parliamentary constituency geography for Great Britain as of a specific date.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions for different use cases, from full resolution to ultra generalised.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each version, ranging from 500 KB to 55 MB.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from December 2016; political boundaries may have changed since then.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries produced by Ordnance Survey and ONS.

Time Range

December 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:17.941012; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain