	Since 2010, the main area's MP is Gareth Johnson (Conservative) who replaced the outgoing Howard Stoate (Labour). The mayor for the year May 2014 to May 2015 is Councillor Avtar Sandhu MBE. The leader of the council, from February 2006, is Councillor Jeremy Kite (Conservative). Councillors represent the following seventeen wards, as amended in 2001: