chorley is administered jointly with the adjacent parish of cholmondeley by cholmondeley & chorley parish council. from 1974 the civil parish was served by crewe and nantwich borough council, which was succeeded on 1 april 2009 by the unitary authority of cheshire east. chorley falls in the parliamentary constituency of eddisbury, which has been represented by edward timpson since 2019, after being represented by stephen o'brien (1999–2015) and antoinette sandbach (2015–19).