Editing Neath (section)

==Administration==
[[File:The Old Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 378257.jpg|thumb|The old [[Neath Town Hall]]]]
After Neath became a [[municipal borough]] in 1835, the borough council was based at [[Neath Town Hall]] in Church Place before relocating to [[Gwyn Hall]] in Orchard Street in 1888.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://gwynhall.celticleisure.org/about-us/a-proud-history/  |title= The History of the Gwyn Hall|publisher=Celtic Leisure| access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref> Neath District Council, which was formed in 1974, was absorbed into the larger [[unitary authority]] of [[Neath Port Talbot]] on 1 April 1996.  The town encompasses the [[electoral ward]]s of [[Neath East]], [[Neath North]], [[Neath South]] and [[Cimla]].

For the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] at Westminster, Neath and the surrounding area are part of the [[Neath (UK Parliament constituency)|Neath]] constituency.  {{As of|2021}}, its [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) is [[Christina Rees]] of the [[Welsh Labour|Labour Party]].

In the [[Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament|Senedd]], the [[Neath (Senedd constituency)|Neath Senedd constituency]] is represented by [[Jeremy Miles]] ([[Welsh Labour|Labour]]), and by the wider [[South Wales West (Senedd electoral region)|South Wales West]] electoral region which returns four additional [[Member of the Senedd|Members of the Senedd]] (MSs).