Polling Places - Scotland

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 The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).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.

 
Citation proposal
. Polling Places - Scotland. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ced42633-0dbc-4ea1-bdad-0ad01c4c0b02

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Alternate title
polpl
Date ( Revision )
2019-12-11
Identifier
www.spatialhub.scot / sh_polpl

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Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Addresses , Administrative units
Keywords
  • Election , Polling
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Society
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Reference system identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
Reference system identifier
EPSG / ETRS89 (EPSG:4258) / 7.9
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.9
Distribution format
  • OGC:WMC (1.3.0 )

OnLine resource
https://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/  
OnLine resource
pub_polpl  

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OnLine resource
pub_polpl  

Open Web Map Service URL

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dataset Dataset
Statement

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.

Metadata

File identifier
ced42633-0dbc-4ea1-bdad-0ad01c4c0b02   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-07
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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