Sound is administered by Sound and District Parish Council, jointly with the nearby civil parishes of Austerson, Baddiley, Baddington, Broomhall and Coole Pilate. Sound is represented by 4 councillors out of a total of 15. From 1974 the civil parish was served by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the unitary authority of Cheshire East.Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 Sound falls in the parliamentary constituency of Eddisbury,Cheshire East Council & Cheshire West and Chester Council: Interactive Mapping: Eddisbury (accessed 31 March 2010) which has been represented by Edward Timpson since 2019, after being represented by Stephen O'Brien (1999–2015) and Antoinette Sandbach (2015–19).
