Mansfield too much focus on self-publicity, as opposed to publicity for the town. The issue was raised again after his prominent role in Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington's homecoming ceremony following her Gold Medal successes at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. In April 2017, Sophie Whitby was elected to represent the Mansfield district as Member of Youth Parliament, on a manifesto which included promoting equality for the LGBT community. Benjamin Bradley has been the constituency (Conservative) Member of Parliament since May 2017, succeeding Sir Alan Meale (Labour), who served the town for thirty years. From 2010 the Parliamentary Constituency boundaries were realigned
Mansfield instead of replacing the Leisure Centre. Mansfield has two indoor swimming centres and a third, smaller pool attached to a school which has been under threat of closure since 2011. This gives it the largest square meterage of indoor water-sports facilities per capita of any town in the United Kingdom with less than 100,000 inhabitants. Mansfield is the largest British town not to have a municipal squash court in the whole of its district, following the demolition of the former Leisure Centre. The general public still hold this against the Council, as the previous Leisure Centre, paid for by the