Data · dataset · 2025
Electoral Wards - South West England
Listed in westofenglandca
This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft.
Description
This dataset contains data for wards/electoral divisions in the United Kingdom. Electoral wards (and electoral divisions) are the key building blocks of UK administrative geography.
They are the spatial units used to elect local government councillors in metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts, UAs and the London boroughs in England; UAs in Wales; council areas in Scotland; and local government districts (LGD) in Northern Ireland. Electoral wards are found in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and most of England. In the Isle of Wight and several of the UAs created as part of the Local Government Reorganisation in 2009, the equivalent areas are legally termed 'electoral divisions', although they are frequently referred to as wards.
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Wales changed to using the term 'electoral wards' instead of 'electoral divisions' in August 2013. The only part of the UK without electoral wards/divisions is the Isles of Scilly, which has its own council but no electoral zoning. For statistical purposes, however, ONS treats the islands' five parishes as electoral wards.
Electoral wards/divisions (and the Scilly parishes) cover the whole of the UK; in addition, all higher administrative units are built from whole electoral wards/divisions. They are also used to constitute a range of other geographies such as the Eurostat Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) geographies, health geographies and Westminster parliamentary constituencies. Electoral ward/division boundary changes are usually enacted on the first Thursday in May each year, to coincide with the local government elections.
Processors and tools are using this data. Enhancements Add ISO 3166-3 codes. Simplify geometries to provide better performance across the services.
Add administrative hierarchy.
Links
Get the data
- CSV export westofenglandca.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/electoral-wards-divisions-un… ↗
download · from westofenglandca opendatasoft com
Where it is published
- westofenglandca dataset page westofenglandca.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/electoral-wards-divisions-united-kingdom ↗
landing page · from westofenglandca opendatasoft com
Documentation and papers
- References geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/search?collection=Dataset&tags=bdy_wd ↗
documentation · from westofenglandca opendatasoft com
Catalogue records · 1
- Explore API westofenglandca.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/electoral-wards-divisions-un… ↗
metadata API · from westofenglandca opendatasoft com
Topics
- Stated by source
- Geography
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| westofenglandca | electoral-wards-divisions-united-kingdom | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].ods_theme:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com:geography | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | /metas/default/description |
| license_text | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | /metas/default/title |
| updated_date | source · westofenglandca opendatasoft com | connector:westofenglandca_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 |