Polling Places - Scotland
polpl
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 The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).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.
dataset
https://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/
protocol: OGC:WFS
name: pub_polpl
description: Open Web Feature Service URL
protocol: OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
name: pub_polpl
description: Open Web Map Service URL
sh_polpl
www.spatialhub.scot
eng
society
Addresses
Administrative units
publication
2008-06-01
Election
Polling
-8.02985
0.32254
60.74784
54.38113
revision
2019-12-11
asNeeded
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.
publication
2010-12-08
OGC:WMC
1.3.0
No limitations on public access
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The Improvement Service
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United Kingdom
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pointOfContact
Spatial Hub Custodian
The Improvement Service
Livingston
EH54 6AX
United Kingdom
01506 282012
spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
pointOfContact
2020-10-09T14:01:50