Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies

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. The Local Government Boundary Commission for 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.

 
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Alternate title

SPC

Alternate title

Holyrood Parliamentary Constituencies

Date ( Creation )
1998-11-19
Date ( Revision )
2014-03-05
Identifier

OS_BL_ScottishParliamentaryConstituency

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Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

  • Administrative units

Keywords ( Theme )

  • Electoral areas

Access constraints
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No limitations on public access

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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)

Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
10000
Metadata language
eng English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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S
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Geographic identifier

GB-SCT

 

Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

Supplemental Information
Reference system identifier

EPSG

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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

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7.9

Distribution format

  • ESRI Shapefile

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    1.0

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OnLine resource
OS OpenData Supply  

Download via OS OpenData

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-10-23
Explanation
Pass
false
Statement

The Local Government Boundary Commission for 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.

Metadata

File identifier
202257f7-501b-40cc-92ba-569143d8a045   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-06-26
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

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