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
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SPC
- Alternative title
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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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Administrative units
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IPSV Subjects List
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Constituencies
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Scottish Parliament
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Other constraints
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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
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- Boundaries
- Extent
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GB-SCT
ISO3166-2 2007-12-13
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Code
- EPSG:4258
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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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
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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
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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Boundaries Scotland
- Delivery point
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Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace
- City
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Edinburgh
- Administrative area
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Scotland
- Postal code
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EH12 5HD
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov.uk
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- Point of contact