Westminster Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries for the UK, December 2022

Government Digital Service provides digital vector boundaries for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the United Kingdom as of December 2022. The boundaries are at full resolution (BFE), typically extending to the Mean Low Water mark. The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing constituency shapes and extents for redistricting studies.
• Joining demographic or election result data to these geographic units.
• Creating visualizations of the UK's parliamentary electoral geography.

Strengths

• Boundaries are provided at full resolution (BFE), including offshore islands.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).
• Specific temporal snapshot (December 2022) provides a clear reference point.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries from Ordnance Survey and ONS.

Time Range

December 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2023-04-05 07:56:08.370000; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom