Governance
Local governance for Oakham is provided for by the single-tier unitary Rutland County Council District Council, of which Oakham is the headquarters.
Lying within the historic county boundaries of Rutland from a very early time, from 1974 until 1997, Oakham lay within the non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire.
Oakham, along with Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and the rest of Rutland, has since 1992 been represented at Westminster by the Conservative Member of Parliament Alan Duncan.
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