 It is also part of the Somerton and Frome county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.The Church of St Mary Magdalene has 12th-century origins.