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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +category: |
| 3 | +- Council and Government |
| 4 | +- Elections / Politics |
| 5 | +- Housing and Estates |
| 6 | +- Planning and Development |
| 7 | +date_created: '2017-01-27' |
| 8 | +date_updated: '2026-04-06' |
| 9 | +license: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ |
| 10 | +maintainer: Aberdeen City Council |
| 11 | +notes: "<p>A Polling District is a geographical subdivision of an electoral area such\ |
| 12 | + \ as an electoral Ward within which a polling place is designated.</p>\n<p>The Representation\ |
| 13 | + \ of the People Act 1983 places a duty on LA to divide the local authority area\ |
| 14 | + \ into polling districts based on ward boundaries, and to designate a polling place\ |
| 15 | + \ for each district. LAs also have a duty to keep these polling arrangements under\ |
| 16 | + \ review. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983\ |
| 17 | + \ Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013).\ |
| 18 | + \ Now local authorities must conduct a full review (with public consultation) of\ |
| 19 | + \ its polling districts and polling places every four years, however adjustments\ |
| 20 | + \ to the boundaries of polling districts and the designation of polling places within\ |
| 21 | + \ LA wards can be proposed at any time in response to changes in ward boundaries\ |
| 22 | + \ or to the availability of premises that can be reasonably designated as polling\ |
| 23 | + \ places.</p>\n<p>The Fifth Review of Electoral Arrangements concluded in May 2016\ |
| 24 | + \ when the LGBCS made recommendations to Scottish Ministers for the number of Councillors\ |
| 25 | + \ and the electoral ward boundaries in each of Scotland's 32 local authorities.\ |
| 26 | + \ The review recommended changes in 30 LA areas of which all but 5 were accepted\ |
| 27 | + \ and came into force on 30th Sept 2016. As a result, ward boundaries (and therefore\ |
| 28 | + \ polling districts and possibly polling places) were changed after this date in\ |
| 29 | + \ time for the May 2017 elections.</p>\n<p>The following fields are now MANDATORY\ |
| 30 | + \ fields for this dataset.\n \"district_code\" - The polling district code linked\ |
| 31 | + \ to the polling place\n \"UPRN\" - The Unique Property Reference Number for the\ |
| 32 | + \ Corporate Address Gazeteer record of the polling place\n \"polling_place\" - The\ |
| 33 | + \ name and/or address of the polling place (based on the Corporate Address Gazeteer\ |
| 34 | + \ record)</p>" |
| 35 | +organization: Aberdeen City Council |
| 36 | +original_dataset_link: https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/polling_places-ac |
| 37 | +records: null |
| 38 | +resources: |
| 39 | +- format: ZIP |
| 40 | + name: Aberdeen Polling Places |
| 41 | + url: https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/296a1bfd-0be8-4aad-84d1-4fab1d094b88/resource/2a94f4e2-ce13-42ab-80c8-c462514c2db9/download/polling_places_2023_is.zip |
| 42 | +- format: ZIP |
| 43 | + name: Aberdeen Polling Places |
| 44 | + url: https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/296a1bfd-0be8-4aad-84d1-4fab1d094b88/resource/606ffdca-0f60-4817-9790-9ae123eca7d7/download/polling_places_2026_is.zip |
| 45 | +schema: default |
| 46 | +title: Polling Places - Aberdeen City |
| 47 | +--- |
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