Electoral Boundaries¶
Disclaimer
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 May 2024 with data extracted on 9 May 2025.
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¶
Update of NT Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries¶
An update to the NT Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries has been applied to reflect the redistribution of the boundaries gazetted on 4 March 2025.
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 |