UK Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries as of December 2019

December 2019 digital vector boundaries for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the United Kingdom, provided by the Government Digital Service. The boundaries are generalised to 20m resolution and clipped to the coastline. The dataset was last updated on the platform in September 2022.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituency shapes for the UK based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Performing spatial analysis of constituency demographics or election results using the geographic features.
• Creating visualizations of UK parliamentary districts for public information or research purposes.
• Integrating boundary data with other geospatial datasets for regional planning or policy analysis.

Strengths

• Boundaries are temporally specific, representing the state as of December 2019.
• Data includes intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and KML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2022-09-29 20:37:04.086000; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries from official sources, generalised and clipped.

Time Range

As at December 2019.

Freshness

Last updated on platform: 2022-09-29.

Geography

United Kingdom.