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 The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).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

Dataset Created
11/06/2021
អាជ្ញាប័ណ្ឌ
UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Contacts
Improvement Service
Last Updated
22/02/2024
Data Provided by
Improvement Service
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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
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No FID local_authority site_ref sh_date_uploaded la_s_code
1 pub_poldi.1 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
2 pub_poldi.2 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
3 pub_poldi.3 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
4 pub_poldi.4 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
5 pub_poldi.5 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
6 pub_poldi.6 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
7 pub_poldi.7 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
8 pub_poldi.8 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
9 pub_poldi.9 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
10 pub_poldi.10 Aberdeen City -- 2017-04-24 S12000033
Format Last Updated
CSV 23/01/2024
WFS 23/01/2024
WMTS 23/01/2024
Shapefile 23/01/2024
ធនធាន Format Last Updated
Polling Districts WFS 23/01/2024 More info
Child Dataset(s) ធនធាន Last Updated
Polling Districts - Aberdeen City 3 24/04/2017 More info
Polling Districts - Aberdeenshire 6 05/04/2022 More info
Polling Districts - Angus 1 21/02/2017 More info
Polling Districts - Argyll and Bute 5 15/02/2022 More info
Polling Districts - City of Edinburgh 1 21/02/2017 More info
Polling Districts - Clackmannanshire 5 25/03/2021 More info
Polling Districts - Dumfries and Galloway 1 29/03/2017 More info
Polling Districts - Dundee City 1 28/02/2022 More info
Polling Districts - East Ayrshire 4 31/10/2019 More info
Polling Districts - East Dunbartonshire 1 05/12/2019 More info
Polling Districts - East Lothian 2 13/11/2019 More info
Polling Districts - East Renfrewshire 4 26/04/2021 More info
Polling Districts - Fife 2 01/05/2023 More info
Polling Districts - Glasgow City 3 29/03/2022 More info
Polling Districts - Highland 4 03/02/2022 More info
Polling Districts - Inverclyde 2 07/11/2019 More info
Polling Districts - Midlothian 2 11/11/2019 More info
Polling Districts - Moray 2 27/06/2017 More info
Polling Districts - Na h-Eileanan an Iar 3 17/03/2022 More info
Polling Districts - North Ayrshire 1 30/01/2017 More info
Polling Districts - North Lanarkshire 1 24/10/2019 More info
Polling Districts - Orkney Islands 1 30/03/2022 More info
Polling Districts - Perth and Kinross 9 10/02/2022 More info
Polling Districts - Renfrewshire Council 3 28/09/2021 More info
Polling Districts - Scottish Borders 3 13/11/2019 More info
Polling Districts - Shetland Islands 1 12/11/2019 More info
Polling Districts - South Ayrshire 2 04/03/2022 More info
Polling Districts - South Lanarkshire 4 15/09/2023 More info
Polling Districts - Stirling 1 11/04/2023 More info
Polling Districts - West Dunbartonshire 2 06/11/2019 More info
Polling Districts - West Lothian 3 07/11/2019 More info