Identification

Title

Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies

Alternative title(s)

SPC

Holyrood Parliamentary Constituencies

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

description: Download via OS Data Hub

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

OS_BL_ScottishParliamentaryConstituency

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Administrative units

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Constituencies

Scottish Parliament

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-11-18

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-12-13

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1998-11-19

date type

revision

effective date

2014-03-05

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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)

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Boundaries Scotland

full postal address

Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace

Edinburgh

EH12 5HD

United Kingdom

email address

boundaries.scot@scottishboundaries.gov.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

email address

customerservices@os.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Boundaries Scotland

full postal address

Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace

Edinburgh

EH12 5HD

United Kingdom

email address

lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-06-20T12:21:46

Metadata language