Blisworth County Council (NCC) with one member, also Conservative. There is also a local Parish Council with eleven elected members. The parliamentary constituency was Daventry prior to the 2010 general election the Boundary Commission put the village in the new parliamentary constituency of South Northamptonshire. The village has its own primary school, Blisworth Community Primary School, with around 200 children. The school takes in a number of children from surrounding areas including the southern outskirts of Northampton. The local secondary school is Elizabeth Woodville School with sites in Roade and Deanshanger. Apart from Blisworth, the catchment area includes Collingtree, Hardingstone, Hackleton,
Stad Ship Tunnel Norwegian Coastal Administration concluded that a tunnel would not be economical. It looked at two sizes, small and large, which would cost respectively. The report concluded that the utility, including saved waiting costs, for shippers have a present value of , respectively, and in saved accident costs. A similar report from 2007 concluded that the tunnel would be economical. The Coastal Administration stated that the differences were because of new and better data. Stad Ship Tunnel The Stad Ship Tunnel () is a proposed canal and tunnel to bypass the Stad peninsula in Selje Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county,