Governance
The parish was created in 1974 as a successor to the Norton-Radstock Urban District which had been created in 1933 by the merger of Midsomer Norton and Radstock urban districts, along with part of Frome Rural District. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it became a successor parish to the urban district.
The council was replaced in 2011 by separate town councils for Midsomer Norton and Radstock, and a parish council for Westfield.
Norton Radstock was governed by the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset and by Norton Radstock Town Council, which elected 14 councillors across the four wards of Midsomer Norton North, Midsomer Norton Redfield, Radstock and Westfield. It was part of the North East Somerset, which elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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