Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (35 seats, Elections Centre)
Other 33 · Labour 2 · The Liberal Party 0 · Conservative 0
Ward results
BURWELL3 seats
| E. Bowers | Independent | 0 ✓ |
| A. Gathercole | Independent | 0 ✓ |
| A. Barton | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Cheveley2 seats
| S. Horwood-Smart Ms. | Independent | 0 ✓ |
| P. Bridge | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Dullingham Villages1 seat
| D. Kaye | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Haddenham2 seats · turnout 26.9%
| R. Morris | Independent | 619 |
| J. Handley | Independent | 296 |
| J. Hudson | Independent | 210 |
Littleport4 seats · turnout 21.7%
| H. Crabb | Independent | 700 |
| R. Gill | Independent | 681 |
| B Wright | Independent | 658 |
| J. Crane | Independent | 485 |
| C. Martin | Independent | 367 |
| W. Saul | Independent | 335 |
| J. Gowing | Independent | 168 |
No. 1 (Ely Urban)7 seats · turnout 30.5%
| A. Pope | Independent | 1,022 ✓ |
| A Pope | Independent | 1,022 |
| S. Cornwell | Independent | 994 ✓ |
| S Cornwell | Independent | 994 |
| M Rouse | Ind Con | 984 |
| M. Rouse | Other | 984 ✓ |
| J Beckett | Independent | 919 ✓ |
| H. Halls | Independent | 747 ✓ |
| H Halls | Independent | 747 |
| F Oakey | Independent | 708 |
| F. Oakey | Independent | 708 ✓ |
| A. Newman | Labour | 275 ✓ |
| A Newman | Labour | 275 |
| G Holmes | Labour | 240 |
| G. Holmes | Labour | 240 |
| J Holmes | Labour | 207 |
| J. Holmes | Labour | 207 |
| S Dunham | Labour | 206 |
| S. Dunham | Labour | 206 |
| M Hempstead | Labour | 198 |
| M. Hempstead | Labour | 198 |
| D Tregloyne | Labour | 128 |
| D. Tregloyne | Labour | 128 |
No. 15 (Fordham)1 seat
| J. Newport | Independent | 0 ✓ |
No. 18 (Chippenham)1 seat
| D. Maclaren | Independent | 0 ✓ |
No. 4 (Sutton)1 seat · turnout 47.7%
| P. Read | Independent | 317 |
| C. Darby | Independent | 248 |
| M. Young | Independent | 203 |
No. 5 (Downham)1 seat · turnout 27.4%
| A. White | Independent | 315 |
| Dale Fletcher | Independent | 46 |
No. 7 (Mepal)1 seat · turnout 62.8%
| F. Tash | Independent | 295 |
| F. Harrison | Independent | 246 |
Soham4 seats · turnout 12.8%
| M. West | Independent | 426 |
| K. Leonard | Independent | 409 |
| W. Gidney | Independent | 362 |
| P. Kirk | Labour | 353 |
| K. Trinder | Independent | 299 |
| S. Peent | Labour | 295 |
| C. Hempstead | Labour | 243 |
Stretham1 seat · turnout 53.1%
| E. Veal | Independent | 319 |
| E. Edgeley | Independent | 242 |
The Swaffhams1 seat · turnout 58.5%
| M. Cook | Independent | 265 ✓ |
| G. Scott | Independent | 199 |
| E. Cole | Independent | 152 |
| W. Bulleid | Independent | 86 |
Woodditton1 seat
| J. Smith | Independent | 0 ✓ |