Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (28 seats, Elections Centre)
Other 26 · Labour 2 · The Liberal Party 0 · Conservative 0
Ward results
Beadnell2 seats · turnout 27.8%
| N. Turner | Independent | 249 |
| J. Heppell | Independent | 205 |
| J. Maxwell | Independent | 186 |
| J. Field | Independent | 97 |
| L. Robson | Independent | 46 |
Chatton1 seat
| J. Marshall | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Elizabeth5 seats · turnout 36.7%
| R. Blackhall | Independent | 1,228 |
| F. Longbone | Independent | 1,162 |
| M. Esther | Independent | 1,094 |
| D. Fairnell | Independent | 930 |
| J. Foxton | Independent | 717 |
| E. Small | Independent | 670 |
| B. Barkham | Independent | 664 |
Ford1 seat · turnout 65.2%
| J. McCall | Independent | 368 |
| M. Lyndon Skeggs | Independent | 279 |
Islandshire2 seats · turnout 61.8%
| Crossman H. | Independent | 535 |
| F. Rogerson | Independent | 452 |
| W. Hope | Labour | 403 |
| E. Harrison | Independent | 218 |
| C. Dixon-Johnson | Independent | 185 |
| J. Hackett | Independent | 117 |
No. 2 (Berwick Upon Tweed: Seton Tower Spittal)7 seats · turnout 55.9%
| J. Smail | Independent | 1,623 ✓ |
| D. Winstanley | Independent | 1,615 ✓ |
| D. Dawson | Independent | 1,556 ✓ |
| G. Thomson | Independent | 1,501 ✓ |
| R. Gilchrist | Labour | 1,460 ✓ |
| J. Wall | Independent | 1,417 ✓ |
| R. Rowntree | Independent | 1,338 ✓ |
| T. Sidey | Independent | 1,254 |
| I. Hepburn | Independent | 1,124 |
| J. Kay | Labour | 938 |
| B. Wade | Labour | 797 |
| F. Short | Labour | 600 |
| A. Gladstone | Labour | 578 |
| J. Jobling | Labour | 549 |
| T. McGow | Labour | 530 |
No. 3 (Belford)1 seat · turnout 53.0%
| E. Stephenson | Independent | 227 |
| C. Sanderson | Independent | 154 |
| J. Field | Independent | 32 |
No. 4 (Bamburgh)1 seat · turnout 37.7%
| H. Birkett | Independent | 190 |
| W. Dixon | Independent | 112 |
Norhamshire2 seats · turnout 53.8%
| G. Miller | Independent | 437 |
| G. Binnie | Independent | 344 |
| E. Taylor | Independent | 324 |
| O. Canning | Independent | 205 |
North Sunderland2 seats · turnout 39.8%
| J. Barrow | Independent | 473 |
| T. Hume | Independent | 472 |
| E. Jeffcock | Independent | 135 |
| J. Tait | Independent | 128 |
