Editing Cirencester (section)

==Local politics==

[[File:Grade II listed number 15, Gosditch Street, Cirencester (geograph 4840858).jpg|thumb|upright|The former municipal offices in Gosditch Street]]
Before 1974 the town was administered by Cirencester Urban District Council, which was initially based in the upper floors of the south porch of the Church of St. John the Baptist. The council moved to offices in Castle Street in 1897 and to offices in Gosditch Street in 1932.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42142|page=6249|date=13 September 1960|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|desc=15, Gosditch Street|num=1187490| access-date=15 July 2021}}</ref> In the 1974 reorganisation of local government, the urban district council was replaced by the new [[Cotswold District Council]] and [[Cirencester Town Council]] was created as the first tier of local government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cirencester.gov.uk/19th-century-to-the-present-day|title=19th Century to the present day|publisher=Cirencester Town Council|access-date=15 July 2021|archive-date=15 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715113428/https://cirencester.gov.uk/19th-century-to-the-present-day|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] won all of the eight available Cirencester seats on Cotswold District Council in May 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meetings.cotswold.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=11&V=1&RPID=960547|title=Cotswold District Elections|date=4 May 2023|publisher=Cotswold District Council|access-date=1 July 2023}}</ref>

Liberal Democrat candidate Joe Harris, aged 18, was elected to the district council for Cirencester Park Ward in May 2011, and became the youngest councillor in the country.<ref>{{cite web|date=6 May 2011|title=Gloucestershire local council election results: Conservatives forge ahead|url=http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Gloucestershire-local-council-election-results-Conservatives-forge-ahead/story-11924788-detail/story.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115123613/http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Gloucestershire-local-council-election-results-Conservatives-forge-ahead/story-11924788-detail/story.html|archive-date=15 January 2012|access-date=31 January 2012|website=This is Gloucestershire}}</ref> Harris was also elected to the county council in the 2013 elections, winning the Cirencester Park Division.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bowen|first=Anna|date=3 May 2013|title=Conservatives beat UKIP into second place or worse in the Cotswolds|url=http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10399594.Liberal_Democrats_claim_major_step_forward_in_Cotswold_elections/?ref=mr|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060909/http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10399594.Liberal_Democrats_claim_major_step_forward_in_Cotswold_elections/?ref=mr|archive-date=21 September 2013|access-date=31 January 2012|website=Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard}}</ref>