UK Parliamentary Constituency Names and Codes as of December 2016

United Kingdom Westminster parliamentary constituency names and codes as recorded on 31 December 2016. The Office for National Statistics published this data, which was last updated in September 2017 to correct a formatting issue. The dataset includes multiple file formats for download.

Use Cases

• Mapping UK electoral constituencies based on the provided geospatial data.
• Joining electoral data using the standardized constituency names and codes.
• Analyzing historical constituency boundaries for the 2016 period.
• Validating the geographic representation of UK parliamentary seats.

Strengths

• Data represents a specific snapshot in time (31 December 2016).
• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Available in multiple formats including GeoJSON and CSV for flexibility.

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.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2016 snapshot and may not reflect later boundary changes.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:54.861837; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom