Editing Romsey (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Romsey, the Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 2208594.jpg|thumb|[[Romsey Town Hall]]]]
Romsey is part of the [[Romsey and Southampton North (UK Parliament constituency)|Romsey and Southampton North]] parliamentary constituency. Its current MP is [[Caroline Nokes]] of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. Elected in the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|general election on 6 May 2010]], after boundary changes, she defeated the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] MP [[Sandra Gidley]] with a 4.5% swing to Conservative from Liberal Democrat and a majority of 4,156 votes. Gidley had held the seat since a [[2000 Romsey by-election|by-election in 2000]] in the former [[Romsey (UK Parliament constituency)|Romsey]] seat.<ref>[http://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/news/8152917.Gidley_ousted_by_the_Tories/ Caroline Nokes is MP for Romsey and Southampton North], ''Romsey Advertiser'', 7 May 2010</ref>

The town is part of the [[Test Valley]] district council which is controlled by the Conservative Party. [[Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], grandson of [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], is the current [[High steward (civic)|High Steward]], a position which dates from the 17th century (see above).

Romsey Town Council holds its meetings and has its offices at [[Romsey Town Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.romseytc.org.uk/uploads/1/1/8/0/118042421/210120.pdf  |title=Full Council Meeting|date=21 January 2020|publisher=Romsey Town Council|access-date=6 July 2021}}</ref>