Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (59 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 45 · Labour 10 · Other 4 · The Liberal Party 0
Ward results
Chipping Ongar1 seat · turnout 38.9%
| T. Butler | Conservative | 328 |
| R. Gross | Labour | 127 |
Greensted & Marden Ash1 seat · turnout 38.1%
| A. Sutherland | Conservative | 396 |
| C. Windle | Labour | 228 |
High Beech1 seat · turnout 40.1%
| E. Tuck | Conservative | 559 |
| S. Riley | Labour | 173 |
High Ongar1 seat
| D. Morton | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
Moreton & Matching1 seat
| P. Gould | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Nazeing2 seats · turnout 46.5%
| M. Welch | Conservative | 894 |
| F. Radford | Conservative | 793 |
| M. Skudder | Labour | 659 |
| J. Mackie | Labour | 642 |
No. 1 (Buckhurst Hill)7 seats
| I Beattie | Conservative | 1,810 ✓ |
| R Garner | Conservative | 1,806 ✓ |
| C Perry | Conservative | 1,801 ✓ |
| N Croucher | Conservative | 1,786 ✓ |
| V Milner | Conservative | 1,770 ✓ |
| Edward Perry | Conservative | 1,764 ✓ |
| L Welch | Conservative | 1,744 ✓ |
| R Eveling | LIB | 690 |
| B O'Brien | Labour | 663 |
| F Underhill | Labour | 650 |
| H King | LIB | 643 |
| P Blagden | Labour | 642 |
| M Fox | Labour | 637 |
| J Fryer | Labour | 615 |
| A Fowl | Labour | 611 |
| D Whiteford | Labour | 592 |
No. 13 (Passingford)1 seat
| J. Pledge | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 14 (Lambourne)1 seat · turnout 57.3%
| R. Amanet | Conservative | 612 |
| A. Wendrop | Independent | 597 |
No. 15 (Theydon Bois)2 seats · turnout 41.6%
| R. Daniels | Conservative | 1,086 |
| J. Wainwright | Conservative | 1,051 |
| S. Gymer | Labour | 256 |
| F. Davy | Labour | 191 |
No. 18 (Epping Upland)1 seat
| G. Padfield | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 2 (Chigwell)6 seats
| S Gordon | Conservative | 1,571 ✓ |
| W Reynolds | Conservative | 1,561 ✓ |
| C Davie | Conservative | 1,558 ✓ |
| N Risdon | Conservative | 1,553 ✓ |
| S Barnett | Conservative | 1,541 ✓ |
| B Gunby | Conservative | 1,523 ✓ |
| G Hilton | Labour | 291 |
| J Turner | Labour | 269 |
| E O'Donoghue | Labour | 261 |
| P Whiteford | Labour | 248 |
No. 22 (Hastingwood & Thornwood)1 seat · turnout 36.9%
| B. Greenhill | Conservative | 265 |
| V. Bardell | Labour | 131 |
No. 23 (North Weald Village)1 seat · turnout 39.3%
| H. Waterman | Independent | 692 |
| R. Bednall | Labour | 269 |
No. 3 (Loughton North)8 seats
| J Davis | Labour | 1,898 ✓ |
| L Fox | Labour | 1,862 ✓ |
| Bernie Mooney | Labour | 1,858 ✓ |
| A Hilton | Labour | 1,854 ✓ |
| S Palfreman | Labour | 1,830 ✓ |
| B Whitlock | Labour | 1,800 ✓ |
| H Worby | Labour | 1,799 ✓ |
| E Chapman | Labour | 1,760 ✓ |
| Christine Ann MacKay | Conservative | 1,476 |
| Valerie Metcalfe | Conservative | 1,441 |
| M McGreal | Conservative | 1,437 |
| V O'Malley | Conservative | 1,424 |
| D Sanders | Conservative | 1,402 |
| L Whittome | Conservative | 1,392 |
| Jeremy Alexander Newton | Conservative | 1,384 |
| R Pocock | Conservative | 1,381 |
No. 4 (Loughton South)8 seats · turnout 33.1%
| G Claridge | Conservative | 2,176 ✓ |
| L Scott | Conservative | 2,149 ✓ |
| A Swallow | Conservative | 2,148 ✓ |
| M Spurge | Conservative | 2,139 ✓ |
| D James | Conservative | 2,127 ✓ |
| D Crilley | Conservative | 2,116 ✓ |
| J Martin | Conservative | 2,109 ✓ |
| R O'Malley | Conservative | 2,107 ✓ |
| M French | Labour | 1,702 |
| W Archer | Labour | 1,695 |
| James Blagden | Labour | 1,672 |
| D Berry | Labour | 1,656 |
| G Castleman | Labour | 1,649 |
| Kama McKenzie | Labour | 1,622 |
| D Sherman | Labour | 1,619 |
| G. Castleman | Labour | 1,611 |
No. 5 (Epping)6 seats
| A Miller | Conservative | 1,703 ✓ |
| F Limer | Conservative | 1,687 ✓ |
| R Cooper | Conservative | 1,647 ✓ |
| Katy Rothwell | Conservative | 1,646 ✓ |
| H Mead | Conservative | 1,642 ✓ |
| M Aldworth | Conservative | 1,629 ✓ |
| H Cliffe | Labour | 1,309 |
| C Long | Labour | 1,256 |
| Aaron James Michael Miles | Labour | 1,254 |
| W Garrett | Labour | 1,250 |
| P Rodwell | Labour | 1,233 |
| D Macaskill | Labour | 1,198 |
No. 8 (Waltham Abbey)5 seats
| J Patching | Conservative | 1,162 ✓ |
| H Taylor | Conservative | 1,135 ✓ |
| R Knibb | Conservative | 1,127 ✓ |
| J Hewins | Labour | 1,111 ✓ |
| Howard Smith | Conservative | 1,110 ✓ |
| A Matthews | Labour | 1,087 |
| W Barbour | Conservative | 1,074 |
| N Paul | Labour | 1,040 |
| C Sumner | Labour | 1,013 |
| John Charles Taylor | Labour | 1,009 |
Paternoster1 seat · turnout 35.4%
| C. Hewins | Labour | 398 |
| R. Chidley | Conservative | 225 |
Roothing Country1 seat
| T. East | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Sheering1 seat · turnout 54.1%
| J. Atkinson | Independent | 434 |
| S. Langton | Labour | 334 |
