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 16 February 2026 with data extracted on 13 February 2026.

  • The release includes a Commonwealth Electoral Boundary update for NT.

  • 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

South Australian State Electoral Boundaries

The South Australian State Electoral Boundaries have been updated for this release. These changes reflect the most recent redistribution undertaken by the South Australian Electoral Commission. The updated boundaries will come into effect for the 2026 State Election on Saturday 21 March.

Users should review any dependent analyses, mapping products, or applications to ensure compatibility with the new boundaries once released. Further details, including a summary of changes, will be provided as part of the February 2026 release report.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues to note.

Resolved Issues

Attribute ordering in NSW, VIC and WA Commonwealth Electoral Polygon MapInfo TAB files

Geoscape has become aware that the DATE_CREATED and DATE_RETIRED attributes in the commonwealth_electoral_polygon MapInfo TAB tables were incorrectly ordered and did not match the product data model. These attributes have been re-ordered to match the data model for the May 2025 release.

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

46

2

0

30

10

5

38

16

150

COMM_ELECTORAL_POLYGON

37

271

309

0

40

223

1,971

116

2,613

5,580