UK Westminster Parliamentary Constituency Names and Codes as of December 2017

December 2017 names and codes for Westminster parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom. The dataset was published by the Government Digital Service and last updated on the platform in October 2022. It contains two text fields: a 9-character constituency code and a 41-character constituency name.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided geospatial file formats.
• Joining constituency codes with other UK political or demographic datasets.
• Analyzing historical constituency boundaries for the 2017 period.

Strengths

• Provides official constituency codes (PCON17CD) and names (PCON17NM) as defined by the UK government.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (KML, GEOJSON) for direct mapping use.
• Snapshot is temporally specific, reflecting boundaries as of 31 December 2017.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2022-10-24 14:55:28.129000; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official government data release.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2017.

Freshness

Snapshot from 2017; platform record updated 2022-10-24.

Geography

United Kingdom.