ACT State Electoral Boundaries - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries

Brief description

The digital Electoral Boundaries and their legal identifiers have been supplied by the Electoral Commission from each state and territory as well as the Australian Electoral Commission and are available below. These boundaries undergo re-distribution depending on population of the electorate before each election.

Electoral Boundaries are part of Geoscape Administrative Boundaries, which is built and maintained by [Geoscape Australia](https://geoscape.com.au/) using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available [here](https://geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer/).

The full Administrative Boundaries dataset contains boundaries in seven themes: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) boundaries, electoral boundaries, state and territory boundaries, local government areas, suburbs/localities, wards and town points.

As at November 2019, users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing the new Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) in addition to datasets on the GDA94 datum.

For GDA2020 datasets, the name of the zip folder and the root folder (once extracted) include a reference to GDA2020. For GDA94 datasets, the zip and root folder names do not contain the datum name (i.e. they remain the same as previous releases).

For example, the zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries downloaded in GDA2020 for November 2019 looks like this:

•\tNOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile_GDA2020; or
•\tNOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat_GDA2020

The zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries in GDA94 for November 2019 looks like this:

•\tNOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile; or
•\tNOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat

Irrespective of the datum chosen, files within the respective folder use exactly the same naming structures.

** Notable changes in the August 2024 release **

* An update to the ACT 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.

Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available [here](https://geoscape.com.au/data/administrative-boundaries/) through Geoscape Australia’s network of [partners](https://geoscape.com.au/partners/). They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support.

Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia.

## License Information

The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an [open CCBY 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

**Users must also note the following attribution requirements:**

_Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material:_

> _Administrative Boundaries © [Geoscape Australia](https://geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer/) licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under_ [_Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)_](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

_Preferred attribution for Adapted Material:_

> _Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © [Geoscape Australia](https://geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer/) licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under_ [_Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)_](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Full description

AUG24 - ACT - State Electoral Boundaries - ESRI Shapefile - GDA94 - GDA94
AUG24 - ACT - State Electoral Boundaries - ESRI Shapefile - GDA2020 - GDA2020
ACT State Electoral Boundaries - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries - Preview this Dataset (WMS) - View the data in this dataset online via an online map
ACT State Electoral Boundaries - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries Web Feature Service API Link - WFS API Link for use in Desktop GIS tools
ACT State Electoral Boundaries - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries GeoJSON - For use in web-based data visualisation of this collection