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Polling Places - Scotland
A ‘polling place’ is defined as the building or area in which a polling station will be located. A ‘polling station’ is the room or area within the polling place where voting takes place. Unlike polling districts and polling places which are fixed by the local authority, polling stations are chosen by the (Acting) Returning Officer for the election.
The Representation of the People Act 1983 places a duty on LA to divide the local authority area into polling districts based on ward boundaries, and to designate a polling place for each district. LAs also have a duty to keep these polling arrangements under review. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013). Now local authorities must conduct a full review (with public consultation) of its polling districts and polling places every four years, however adjustments to the boundaries of polling districts and the designation of polling places within LA wards can be proposed at any time in response to changes in ward boundaries or to the availability of premises that can be reasonably designated as polling places.
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Identification info
- Alternative title
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polpl
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-11-08
- Identifier
- www.spatialhub.scot / sh_polpl
- 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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Addresses
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- Keywords
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Election
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Polling
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- Classification
- Unclassified
- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Society
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version OGC:WMC
1.3.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/polling_places-is Polling Places - Scotland
OGC:WFS
https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_polpl/wfs?Service=WFS&Request=GetCapabilities&authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc pub_polpl
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_polpl/wms?Service=WMSs&Request=GetCapabilities&authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc pub_polpl
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/18 Representation of the People Act 1983
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub.
The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data:
checks for missing district_code.
checks for duplicate district_code.
checks for no match with district dataset.
checks for missing polling_place attribute.
checks whether points falls outside local authority boundary.
checks whether place feature is not a point format and corrects to centroids where necessary.
All corrections and issues are captured and communicated via Quality Assurance report maps. Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details. spatialhub@improvementservice.org All corrections and issues are captured and communicated via Quality Assurance report maps. Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ced42633-0dbc-4ea1-bdad-0ad01c4c0b02 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-11-18T16:39:18.18Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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The Improvement Service
- Position name
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Spatial Hub Custodian
- Voice
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01506 282012
- City
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Livingston
- Administrative area
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West Lothian
- Postal code
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EH54 6AX
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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spatialhub@improvementservice.org spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
- Role
- Point of contact