Governance
Devizes is a civil parish with an elected town council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council, on which all three elected members for Devizes belong to a local political party, the Devizes Guardians, led by Nigel Carter. The two councils are responsible for different aspects of local government. Prior to the Local Government Act taking effect in 1974, Devizes was a municipal borough. It then became the administrative centre for the much larger Kennet District Council until the district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.
Devizes is part of the Devizes constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The current MP is Claire Perry of the Conservatives. Devizes is also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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