Chipping Norton Government Act 1972 made it a successor parish within the district of West Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton is in the Witney parliamentary constituency. The Member of Parliament for Witney from 2001 to 2016 was David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and the leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. Since 2016 the MP for Witney has been the Conservative Robert Courts. Chipping Norton is part of the South East England constituency for the European Parliament. One Conservative councillor and two Labour councillors represent the town on West Oxfordshire District Council holding
Colin Cameron (Malawian politician) against Michael Hill Blackwood, Cameron requested that he be given a seat with a realistic change of winning, and was instead nominated in the Soche constituency, where he ran as a pro-Malawi Congress Party independent. Cameron succeeded in winning one of the eight seats on the higher roll (largely reserved for European and Asian voters), and was appointed Minister of Works and Transport, later becoming Minister of Transport and Communications. In the 1964 elections Cameron was re-elected, the only European to be elected as an MCP candidate. Following the elections, he was appointed Minister of Works, and was the only