Identification

Title

Polling Districts - Scotland

Alternative title(s)

poldi

Abstract

A ‘polling district’ is a geographical subdivision of an electoral area such as an electoral Ward within which a polling place is designated. 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 The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/polling_districts-is

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

name: Polling Districts - Scotland

description: A link to the CKAN metadata record on the Spatial Hub. A direct link to the OGC Web Feature Service and Web Map Service is available here.

function: download

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

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: pub_poldi

description: Open Web Feature Service URL

function: download

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

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: pub_poldi

description: Open Web Map Service URL

function: download

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/18

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

name: Representation of the People Act 1983

description: Polling districts and places at parliamentary elections.

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

sh_poldi

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

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

Polling

Election

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

2022-04-26

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: Polygons are dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority. The minimum polygon area allows in the data is 100 square meters. Checks for invalid geometry types. The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees. Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data. Duplicate key names for polygons are not removed. Polygons with no key names are not removed. a polygon overlaps a local authority boundary (or any other input data) by up to 5m we will snap this to the boundary. Where a polygon has a gap of 5m to a local authority boundary (or any other input data) we will snap this to the boundary. 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

false

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

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

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

2022-05-03T10:34:02

Metadata language

eng