Scottish Electoral Wards

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 20 June 2023
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Summary

Local government in Scotland comprises 32 unitary local authorities (council areas), which are divided into wards for electoral purposes. There are currently a total of 1,226 councilors elected from 355 wards - with each Mainland ward returning 3 or 4 councillors. Island wards may have 1 or 2 member wards. Boundaries Scotland is responsible for recommendations on the definition of ward boundaries, however, the definitive dataset is delineated by Ordnance Survey for inclusion in their BoundaryLine product.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-06-20T12:15:13
• Access contraints: 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)
• Harvest GUID: f17baa94-1e55-4656-9f7b-ead496609220
• Extent: Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
• Dataset reference date: 1994-11-11 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-04-01 (revision)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: Boundaries Scotland (originator); Ordnance Survey (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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