Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Constituencies

As can be seen from the query below, there are some deficiencies in our coverage of electorial constituencies in the United Kingdom. We think we have them all, including those that are defunct, but there are many with missing statements.

This page (and its talk page) is where we document and discuss how to make improvements.

Properties edit

needs expansion

All items for constituencies should have the following properties:

Mandatory	instance of (P31) : one of: constituency of the House of Commons (Q27971968) region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Q7437892) region or constituency of the Senedd (Q6970524) constituency of the Northern Ireland Assembly (Q19802341) constituency of the London Assembly (Q11703950) country (P17) : United Kingdom (Q145)
Standard properties	inception (P571) replaces (P1365) : previous constituency\ies covering this area coordinate location (P625) : use rough centrepoint, or point of largest population as appropriate located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) : the local administrative entity this is contained within locator map image (P242) geoshape (P3896) KML file (P3096) number of seats in assembly (P1410); qualified with legislative body (P194) shares border with (P47) : A good tool for finding neighbouring constituencies is the BBC 2019 results service - search for a particular constituency, then mouse over the map to see the names of its neighbours.
Former constituencies	dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576) sponsor (P859) : use this for historic rotten/pocket boroughs, with date qualifiers where appropriate replaced by (P1366) : subsequent constituency\ies covering this area
External identifiers	VIAF ID (P214) Freebase ID (P646) GSS code (2011) (P836) TOID (P3120) Vision of Britain unit ID (P3615) UK Parliament thesaurus ID (P4527) UK Parliament ID (P6213)

Missing data edit

(Query by Tagishsimon)

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?located_inLabel ?coord ?geoshape (GROUP_CONCAT(?adjacent_to_label; SEPARATOR = ", ") AS ?adjacents) ?said_to_be_same_as ?said_to_be_same_asLabel ?VoB WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q27971968.
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P460 ?said_to_be_same_as. }
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P131 ?located_in. }
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P625 ?coord. }
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P3896 ?geoshape. }
  OPTIONAL {
    ?item wdt:P47 ?adjacent_to.
    ?adjacent_to rdfs:label ?adjacent_to_label.
    FILTER((LANG(?adjacent_to_label)) = "en")
  }
  FILTER(NOT EXISTS { ?item wdt:P576 _:b1. })
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P3615 ?VoB. }
}
GROUP BY ?item ?itemLabel ?located_inLabel ?coord ?geoshape ?said_to_be_same_as ?said_to_be_same_asLabel ?VoB
ORDER BY (?itemLabel) (?located_inLabel)

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