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
David Cameron (rower) selected as Australia's single sculler to contest the 1995 U23 World Rowing Championships in Groningen. He finished in twelfth place. For the 1996 Athens Olympics Cameron was Australia's selected single scull and coached by Harald Jahrling he competed and finished in thirteenth place. In 1997 at the World Championships in Aiguebelette he raced the Australian coxed pair with Nick McDonald-Crowley and steered by David Colvin to second place and Cameron's sole senior World Championship medal - a silver. At the 1998 World Rowing Championships in Cologne, Cameron made his final Australian representative appearance when he rowed in the seven seat