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Commonwealth Electoral Division Boundaries
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), Commonwealth Electoral Divisions are federal electoral divisions. AEC electoral divisions are areas legally prescribed for the purpose of returning members to the House of Representatives.
Commonwealth Electoral Divisions may change as the AEC revise their boundaries. Where this occurs, Commonwealth Electoral Divisions will be updated annually. The 2021 Commonwealth Electoral Divisions remain current at this time.
There are 170 Commonwealth Electoral Divisions covering the whole of Australia without gaps or overlaps.
Geoscience Australia to re-host the Commonwealth Electoral Division Boundaries for the purpose of the Digital Atlas of Australia Beta release in June 2023.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2023-05-11T16:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-05-18T22:03:22
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147958
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Hammond, G.
Internal Contact Author Dunford, M.
Internal Contact Editor Hammond, G.
Internal Contact Editor Dunford, M.
Internal Contact
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Geoscience Australia to re-host the Commonwealth Electoral Division Boundaries for the purpose of the Digital Atlas of Australia Beta release in June 2023
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- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Place and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Ness, S.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
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- 2021-09-29
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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DAA - Digital Atlas of Australia
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Electoral
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boundaries
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Federal
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Political geography
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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4.0
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission)2023
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- Unclassified
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
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Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice facsimile
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Download Data (zip) [20.6 MB]
Download Data (zip) [20.6 MB]
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<div>The Australian Electoral Commission will make a final determination of boundaries and names of the electoral divisions in the state or territory. Electoral boundaries are determined by each state and territory representation in the House of Representatives in proportion to their population, and. there are a similar number of electors in each electoral division for a given state or territory.</div><div><br></div><div>While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of the data within this product, the owners of the data (including the State, Territory and Federal Governments of Australia) do not make any representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and, to the extent permitted by law, the owners of the data disclaim all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damages) and costs which might be incurred as a result for the data being inaccurate or incomplete in any way and for any reason.</div><div><br></div>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 / geodetic (EPSG: 6283)
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- Unclassified
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Ness, S.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Citation identifier
- eCatId/147958
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-05-18T02:42:10
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-05-18T02:42:10
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551