Scottish Parliamentary Regions

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.

Identification info

Alternative title: SPR

Alternative title: Holyrood Parliamentary Regions

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set

Dataset Reference Date (): 1998-11-19

Dataset Reference Date (): 2014-03-05

Identifier: OS_BL_ScottishParliamentaryRegion

Boundaries Scotland

Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH12 5HD , United Kingdom

Ordnance Survey - Customer Services

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Administrative units

IPSV Subjects List ()

Scottish Parliament
Constituencies

Limitations on Public Access

Other constraints: No limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other constraints: Open Government Licence

Other constraints: 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

Denominator: 10000

Topic category

Boundaries

Extent

GB-SCT

Dataset Reference Date (): 2007-12-13

Code: EPSG:4258

Code: EPSG:27700

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format

ESRI Shapefile ( 1.0 )

Transfer options

Resource Locator: OS OpenData Supply ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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Quality Scope

Report

Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Degree

Statement: The Local Government Boundary Commission for 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.

In addition to constituencies, the Scottish Parliament electoral system requires 8 regions for the election of regional MSPs, with the extent of each comprising a number of whole constituencies. The initial regions for the Parliament were coterminous with the European Parliament constituencies enacted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996. These regions were replaced following the Commission’s First Periodic Review.

The current regional boundaries 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 and West Scotland Regions at Robroyston

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.

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File identifier: 9c892e29-6b74-49f4-95c1-dbdb1e5a53d5 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

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Resource type

Metadata Date: 2023-06-20T10:56:18

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland

Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH12 5HD , United Kingdom

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