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
Oxford (UK Parliament constituency) Oxford (UK Parliament constituency) Oxford was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It comprised the city of Oxford in the county of Oxfordshire, and elected two members of parliament from its creation in 1295 until 1885 when its representation was reduced to one member. During the 1960s and 1970s, Oxford was a marginal seat. 1918-1950: The County Borough of Oxford. 1950-1983: As prior but with redrawn boundaries. "This version of the constituency took in territory from the pre-1950 Henley seat, where parts of the revised county borough had been." In the 1983 redistribution, this constituency disappeared and was split