Scottish Parliamentary constituency and boundary changes

[gordonmaloney]

Hi folks,

After last week's Scottish Parliamentary election, boundaries and constituencies have changed. See more here. But the postcode lookup still shows the old names - for example this one, which shows the old "Edinburgh Northern and Leith", when it should now be "Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith".

Unfortunately because both the boundaries and the names changed, it's not just a matter of replacing the name.

National Records for Scotland have spreadsheets here with the new constituency names for each: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/scottish-postcode-directory-20252/

[cblanc]

Hi @gordonmaloney - could you take a look at the updated SPD dataset:

e.g. https://postcodes.io/scotland/postcodes/AB101AB

We've also extended the API to return more data from SPD

[gordonmaloney]

Hey @cblanc - the extra data is definitely v helpful, that's great - but the boundary and name changes don't look like they've been applied - for instance this is still showing "Edinburgh Northern and Leith" as the constituency name, but it should be "Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith".

This one too is showing as "Edinburgh Southern", which it was previously in - but should now be in "Edinburgh Central".

[cblanc]

Thanks for the update. Will have another look