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National legislatures are often called 'houses', 'senates' or 'chambers'.
The constituencies are the areas that members of the legislatures represent. They are described by electoral boundary files. Please tell us about these electoral boundary files.
Please be careful not to submit polling districts. Polling districts are the areas which define the catchment of a polling station and are usually smaller than the constituency.
Where constituencies are the same as administrative districts these can be accepted.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free online | Yes | |
| In an open format | Shapefile | |
| Whole country | Yes | |
| electoral_districts_exist | Yes | I don't' know what that is, but I choose no since I must select an answer. |
| Collected by government | Australian Electoral Commission | I think AEC, but as you can see in B2.2 they are also published by PSMA. On top of that sometimes people use the ABS boundaries, but these are only approximations for statistical purposes. |
| assembly_needed | Yes | I don't' know what that is, but I choose no since I must select an answer. |
| assembly_mapping | n/a | |
| characteristics | Name of Legistlature, Name and/or ID of constituency, Polygon | I don't know what you mean by this. |
| location | https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundar - Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries MAY 2016, https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/index.htm - The Electoral Boundaries contain the geographic boundaries of the federal electoral divisions of Australia. These boundaries are provided in vector format with Electoral Divisions represented by polygons. | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | I think so, but not 100% sure. |
| Legislative terms present | I don't know | I don't know. |
| Openly licenced | Yes | The AEC data is no openly licensed, but you can openly download it and use it personally. The PSMA data is CC BY |
| licence_url | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| Number of legislative bodies | Federal / Commonwealth |
