Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (48 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 21 · Labour 20 · The Liberal Party 7 · Other 0
Ward results
No. 10 (Radcliffe: North)6 seats
| Richard Fletcher | Labour | 2,755 ✓ |
| J McCarthy | Labour | 2,691 ✓ |
| J Mason | Labour | 2,674 ✓ |
| J Allen | Labour | 2,518 ✓ |
| E Coates | Conservative | 2,499 ✓ |
| G Page | Labour | 2,442 ✓ |
| R Morris | Conservative | 2,406 |
| W Pannequin | Labour | 2,230 |
| F Hampson | Conservative | 2,215 |
| Walter Davy | Conservative | 2,167 |
| N Bryson | Conservative | 2,155 |
| Janet Little | Conservative | 2,072 |
| J Lomax | Independent | 1,316 |
No. 13 (Tottington)3 seats
| H. Taylor | Conservative | 1,987 |
| W. Johnson | Conservative | 1,950 |
| D. Higgin | Conservative | 1,872 |
| T. Holden | Labour | 1,563 |
| D. Macdonald | Labour | 1,542 |
| J. Euston | Labour | 1,536 |
| Doris Boden | Labour | 1,588 ✓ |
| J Amey | Labour | 1,371 ✓ |
| C Ormrod | Conservative | 1,365 ✓ |
| J Lewis | Labour | 1,363 |
| R Daintree | Conservative | 1,339 |
| B Hodgson | Conservative | 1,275 |
| V Guthrie | Conservative | 1,307 ✓ |
| J Rosenfield | Conservative | 1,258 ✓ |
| J Brown | Conservative | 1,183 ✓ |
| G Van Hecke | Labour | 1,143 |
| Martyn Jowett | Labour | 1,094 |
| G Cohen | Labour | 1,026 |
| J Cooke | LIB | 865 |
| W Dawson | LIB | 702 |
| P Friesner | LIB | 652 |
Radcliffe South3 seats
| A. Colleran | Labour | 1,422 |
| T. Jackson | Labour | 1,413 |
| A. Scholes | Labour | 1,379 |
| A. Shea | Conservative | 941 |
| J. Barlow | Conservative | 890 |
| P. Aindow | Conservative | 824 |