Identification

Title

Polling Places - Scotland

Alternative title(s)

polpl

Abstract

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 The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).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. The Fifth Review of Electoral Arrangements concluded in May 2016 when the LGBCS made recommendations to Scottish Ministers for the number of Councillors and the electoral ward boundaries in each of Scotland's 32 local authorities. The review recommended changes in 30 LA areas of which all but 5 were accepted and came into force on 30th Sept 2016. As a result, ward boundaries (and therefore polling districts and possibly polling places) were changed after this date in time for the May 2017 elections.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/

https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_polpl/wfs?Service=WFS&Request=GetCapabilities&authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: pub_polpl

description: Open Web Feature Service URL

https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_polpl/wms?Service=WMSs&Request=GetCapabilities&authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map

name: pub_polpl

description: Open Web Map Service URL

Unique resource identifier

code

sh_polpl

codeSpace

www.spatialhub.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

society

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Addresses

Administrative units

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Election

Polling

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.02985

East bounding longitude

0.32254

North bounding latitude

60.74784

South bounding latitude

54.38113

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2019-12-11

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

OGC:WMC

version of format

1.3.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Spatial Hub Custodian

organisation name

The Improvement Service

full postal address

Livingston

EH54 6AX

United Kingdom

telephone number

01506 282012

email address

spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Spatial Hub Custodian

organisation name

The Improvement Service

full postal address

Livingston

EH54 6AX

United Kingdom

telephone number

01506 282012

email address

spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-10-09T14:01:50

Metadata language

eng