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English
The Improvement Service
Spatial Hub Custodian
01506 282012
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AX
United Kingdom
spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
2024-01-23T16:48:42
UK GEMINI
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Polling Districts - Scotland
poldi
2024-01-23
sh_poldi
www.spatialhub.scot
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 The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).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.
The Improvement Service
Spatial Hub Custodian
01506 282012
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AX
United Kingdom
spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
Administrative units
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme
Polling
Election
Open Government Licence
No limitations on public access
English
society
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OGC:WMC
1.3.0
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/polling_districts-is
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Polling Districts - Scotland
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.
https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_poldi/wfs?Service=WFS&Request=GetCapabilities&authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc
OGC:WFS
pub_poldi
Open Web Feature Service URL
https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_poldi/wms?Service=WMS&Request=GetCapabilities&authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc
OGC:WMS
pub_poldi
Open Web Map Service URL
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/18
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Representation of the People Act 1983
Polling districts and places at parliamentary elections.
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
false
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