Electoral Boundaries

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Overview

Electoral Boundaries is a spatial representation of the Commonwealth and State electoral boundaries across Australia defined by the Commonwealth and State/Territory governments respectively. Electoral Boundaries aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent seamless representation of the electoral boundaries of Australia.

Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Electoral Boundaries product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website (www.geoscape.com.au).

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 19 August 2024 with data extracted on 13 August 2024.

  • The release includes Legislative Assembly updates for ACT and NT State Electoral Boundaries.

  • This release is a full national data population for Version 1.0 of the Electoral Boundaries product, described by the Electoral Boundaries Product Description v1.0.

Any issues that have been identified for this release are described in the Issues section.

Change Notifications

Update of NT State Electoral Boundaries

An update to the Northern Territory State Electoral Boundaries has been applied to reflect the redistribution of the Legislative Assembly boundaries gazetted on 15 December 2023. The boundaries will apply at the NT Territory Election that will be held on 24 August 2024.

Update of ACT State Electoral Boundaries

An update to the Australian Capital Territory State Electoral Boundaries has been applied to reflect the redistribution of the Legislative Assembly boundaries which had their final determination notification on 14 September 2023 and commenced the day after on 15 September 2023. The boundaries will apply at the ACT Legislative Assembly Election that will be held on 19 October 2024.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues to note.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues to note.

Known Issues

No known issues to note.

Future Considerations

This section outlines enhancements or changes under consideration, but not planned into a specific release. For further details on future initiatives, please contact Geoscape Support.

Annex A – Release Counts

Total Electoral Boundaries counts have been listed in the table below.

TABLE NAME

ACT

NSW

NT

OT

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

STATE_ELECTORAL

10

188

50

0

182

96

20

192

125

863

STATE_ELECTORAL_POLYGON

10

929

76

0

191

852

1,172

214

6,230

9,674

COMM_ELECTORAL

3

47

2

0

30

10

5

39

15

151

COMM_ELECTORAL_POLYGON

37

273

267

0

40

223

1,971

117

2,612

5,540