Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies

Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies and Regions define the electoral areas used to return members to the Scottish Parliament. There are 73 constituencies, each electing one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), and 8 regional constituencies each electing an additional seven MSPs. The total number of parliamentary seats is 129. Boundaries Scotland is responsible for recommendations on the definition of constituency and region boundaries, however, the definitive dataset is delineated by Ordnance Survey for inclusion in their BoundaryLine product.

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Identification info

Alternative title

SPC
Alternative title

Holyrood Parliamentary Constituencies
Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
1998-11-19
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2014-03-05
Identifier
OS_BL_ScottishParliamentaryConstituency
Originator
  Boundaries Scotland
Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH12 5HD , United Kingdom
Distributor
  Ordnance Survey - Customer Services
Explorer House, Adanac Drive , Southampton , SO16 0AS , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Administrative units

IPSV Subjects List

  • Constituencies

  • Scottish Parliament
Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
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Open Government Licence
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The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Extent
GB-SCT

ISO3166-2 2007-12-13

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Temporal reference

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Code
EPSG:4258
Code
EPSG:27700

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine
 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

Boundaries Scotland is responsible for reviewing the constituencies and regions of the Scottish Parliament, and making recommendations on their boundaries. Recommendations that are accepted by Ministers are enacted by statutory instrument and passed to Ordnance Survey for inclusion in their BoundaryLine product.


The 73 Scottish Parliament constituencies were originally defined at the establishment of the modern Scottish Parliament enacted by the Scotland Act 1998. These constituencies were to be the same as the Westminster constituencies at that time, with the exception that Orkney and Shetland should each form a separate constituency. The original constituency boundaries were in use up until 2011, but amended following the Commission’s First Periodic Review.


The bulk of the 73 constituency were enacted by the Scottish Parliament (Constituencies and Regions) Order 2010, however, and interim review of Scottish Parliament boundaries resulted in the following amendment:


Effective 2014-05-03 (SSI 2014/501):

• Glasgow Provan and Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituencies


With regards to the seaward extent of the parliamentary boundaries, as with local authorities this normally ends at the low water mark. In a small number of cases, the area has been extended by legislation around a port or harbour into the surrounding sea beyond the low water mark. The largest of these is Yell Sound in the Shetland Islands, and there are also substantial extensions at Aberdeen and Greenock.
 

Metadata

File identifier
202257f7-501b-40cc-92ba-569143d8a045 XML
Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2023-06-20T12:21:46
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

Boundaries Scotland
Delivery point

Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace
City

Edinburgh
Administrative area

Scotland
Postal code

EH12 5HD
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov.uk

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Boundaries Scotland
Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH12 5HD , United Kingdom
 
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Administrative units
IPSV Subjects List
Constituencies Scottish Parliament

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