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Districts
Scotland Council Areas
All 32 council areas in Scotland, each one its own editable shape with its GSS code.
32 council areas
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Preview shows the map slide in Editorial, Mono, Slate.
Every template has the same eight slides
- Cover — the map's name and theme, on a slide you can put your own title over.
- Editing guide — ungroup, recolour, regroup, in three steps and without plugins.
- The map — every area at one flat colour, the blank starting point for your own shading.
- Reference map — all 355 wards named, each carrying its GSS code, so nothing has to be looked up.
- Data map — five shaded classes and a legend, ready for your own figures instead of the sample ones.
- Spotlight — the largest few by area emphasised and the rest muted, for a single clear point.
- Working with the data — a data hand-off table.
- Source and licence — the boundary release, the publisher and the licence, printed on the slide so the deck carries its own provenance.
Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
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Wards
Editable Scotland Wards Map Template
All 355 wards of Scotland's 32 council areas.
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355 wardsGeography
355Editable shapes
8Slides
3Themes
About this template
Every ward in Scotland — 355 areas — each with its GSS code. Scottish wards carry a number as well as a name, and both are in the spreadsheet that comes with the map.
Typical use: Local election analysis, ward-level consultation and local service mapping.
How teams use it
- Ward-level detail — The finest split most councils publish, for when a district map hides the variation the report is about.
- Election and canvassing — Colour wards as results come in, on boundaries that stay fixed between reviews.
- Targeting — Group wards into areas for a campaign, a service or a consultation without redrawing anything.
Areas included
355 in total, every one a separate named shape.
The full list is on the reference slide of the file, and in the Selection Pane of any slide that shows the map.
Specification
| Price | $19.99, one-time payment, no subscription |
|---|---|
| Format | PowerPoint .pptx, opens natively in Keynote |
| File size | 1.16 MB |
| Join field | GSS code (the ONS identifier for each area) |
| Area figures | Area, km², measured from the boundary geometry |
| Boundary source | Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Projection | Albers equal-area conic, fitted to the UK |
| Coordinates | WGS84 longitude / latitude |
| Licence | Commercial use permitted; resale of the files is not |
| Refunds | Full refund within 14 days for any reason, and at any time if the file is defective or not as described |
Questions
Scotland Wards — questions before you buy
How is this different from the map chart built into PowerPoint?
The map chart built into Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 or later looks places up through Bing Maps and stops at country level for the UK, so it cannot draw local authority districts, council areas or wards. These maps are ordinary PowerPoint shapes built from the ONS boundary files: nothing is looked up, every level below country is covered, and any area can be recoloured, relabelled or deleted on its own.
What does this ward map show?
This is the ward map of Scotland. 355 wards — all in Scotland. Every one is a separate shape that can be filled, labelled or deleted on its own, and the same boundaries are used on the map, the labelled reference slide and the data slide, so nothing shifts between them.
What counts as a ward in Scotland?
The electoral ward — the smallest area election results are published for, and the building block of every council area here. Scotland has 355 of the UK's 8,413 wards. Ward boundaries are reviewed more often than any other geography in this catalogue, so check the release date against your figures.
Does this cover all of Scotland?
Yes — all 355 areas, with nothing dropped for legibility. The shapes together add up to Scotland, so the map can be placed beside a UK-wide map without adjusting the projection.
What kind of data can I show on this map?
Anything published at ward level: local election results, electorate size, indices of deprivation, polling districts. Classify your figures into five bands and recolour by class — the data slide is already a five-step legend you can keep or replace — and the editing guide covers recolouring in bulk, because 355 shapes is more than anyone wants to click through one at a time.
How do I link my own data to the map?
Each shape is named after its area and carries its ONS GSS code, the identifier statistics are published against. Every code here begins S13, the ONS prefix for wards. Join on the code rather than on names: authority names repeat across the UK, get respelt by different publishers, and change when councils reorganise, while the code stays with the area.
Which boundary release is this based on?
Office for National Statistics boundaries, May 2026 release, generalised and clipped to the coastline. They are published under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial use and requires two credit lines wherever the material is reproduced — both are already printed on the source slide of every deck. Ward boundaries are reviewed more often than any other geography here, so check your figures against this date.
Is there a wider or a more detailed map of this area?
The Scotland Council Areas map is the wider view.
Do I need GIS software or a shapefile?
No. The ONS boundary files have already been projected, simplified and converted into native PowerPoint shapes, so there is nothing to install and no file conversion to do. Editing the map is the same as editing any other shape.
Can I get a receipt or a VAT invoice?
Yes. Payment is handled by Waffo Pancake as merchant of record, which emails a receipt showing its company details and any VAT applied.
Can these be used commercially?
Yes. The boundaries are published under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial use, and presentations may be commercial or internal with no limit on their number. The template files themselves may not be resold or redistributed.
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