AGSL GeoDiscovery

Cantonal Electoral Constituencies: Metropolitan France, 2010

Description:

This polygon shapefile contains the constituency boundaries for the cantons of metropolitan France in 2010. Cantons serve as constituencies for the election of the members of the representative assembly (General Council) in each department within France.The role of the canton is, essentially, to provide a framework for departmental elections. Each canton elects a person to represent it at the conseil général du département – or general council for the department, which is the principal administrative division of the French Republic.

This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/xy080zx1557

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/xy080zx1557

Language:

eng

Publisher:

Articque informatique

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Administrative and political divisions and Boundaries

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

2010

Date Issued:

2010

Spatial Coverage:

France

Rights:

These data are licensed by Stanford Libraries and are available to Stanford University affiliates only. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students. Non affiliates seeking access should contact the publisher directly. These data may not be reproduced or used for any purpose without permission.

Rights Holder:

Copyright ownership resides with the originator.

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile

Georeferenced:

false