Editing Chorley (section)

==Governance==

[[File:Chorley Council.JPG|thumb|right|Chorley Council Building, Union Street]]

In 1837, Chorley joined with other [[Township (England)|township]]s (or [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]]es) in the area to become head of the Chorley [[Poor Law Union]], which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the [[Poor Law]] in the area.<ref name="Workhouse">{{Citation |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Chorley/Chorley.shtml |title=Workhouse |publisher=Workhouses.org |access-date=7 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605223559/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Chorley%2FChorley.shtml |archive-date=5 June 2011}}</ref> Chorley became incorporated as a [[municipal borough]] in 1881; it was governed by a [[Mayors in England|mayor]], a council of eight [[Alderman|aldermen]] and twenty four [[councillor]]s.<ref name="vchchorley">{{cite book|editor1-last=Farrer|editor1-first=William|editor2-last=Brownbill|editor2-first=J.|year=1911|chapter=Chorley|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp129-149|title=A History of the County of Lancaster|volume=6|work=[[Victoria County History]]|publisher=[[British History Online]]|pages=129–149|access-date=12 August 2016}}</ref>

The population of the [[Municipal Borough of Chorley]] remained roughly static in the 20th century, with the 1911 census showing 30,315 people and the 1971 census showing 31,665. Under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], Chorley became the core of a larger non-metropolitan district on 1 April 1974. The present [[Chorley (borough)|Borough of Chorley]] has forty-two councillors, representing 14 three-member [[Wards of the United Kingdom|electoral wards]] in Chorley town council.

The Member of Parliament for the constituency of Chorley, since 1997, is [[Lindsay Hoyle]], [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He was formerly a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP.<ref name=Speak10>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10260537.stm Deputy Speakers: Hoyle, Primarolo and Evans elected] BBC News, 8 June 2010</ref>