UK Westminster Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries as of July 2024

Government Digital Service provides digital vector boundaries for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the United Kingdom, as at 4th July 2024. The boundaries are in Super Generalised (200m) scale, clipped to the coastline. The dataset was last updated on the platform on 2024-06-03.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies for visual analysis based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Performing spatial joins with demographic or election result data based on the constituency geometries.
• Creating basemaps for political or regional planning applications based on the official UK boundaries.
• Analyzing coastline-clipped boundary representations for coastal constituency studies.

Strengths

• Boundaries are current as of a specific date: 4th July 2024.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative UK sources: Ordnance Survey and ONS.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, KML, and ESRI File Geodatabase.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the license, which may restrict usage.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service, likely sourced from Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Collection Method

Official boundary delineation and digitization.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 4th July 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-03 12:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom.