Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (44 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 26 · Labour 11 · Other 7 · The Liberal Party 0
Ward results
Barningham1 seat · turnout 43.8%
| C. Hatten | Conservative | 397 |
| M. Stewart | Labour | 189 |
Clare1 seat
| E. Soulsby | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Great Barton1 seat
| C. Winsor | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
Honington1 seat
| G. Starling | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 1 (Bury St. Edmunds: Abbeygate)2 seats · turnout 27.9%
| F. Jepson | Conservative | 536 |
| A Biggs | Conservative | 471 |
| A. Richardson | Labour | 220 |
No. 10 (Haverhill: Castle)2 seats · turnout 23.6%
| W. Elkins | Labour | 348 |
| J. Hartley | Labour | 318 |
| D. Haylock | Conservative | 169 |
No. 11 (Haverhill: Clements)2 seats · turnout 22.0%
| T. Allen | Labour | 388 |
| J. Insole | Labour | 346 |
| A. Currell | Conservative | 184 |
No. 12 (Haverhill: St. Marys & Helions)2 seats · turnout 43.8%
| W. Blake | Independent | 590 |
| E. Elkins | Labour | 385 |
| J. Shaul | Conservative | 333 |
| N. Salmon | LIB | 258 |
| F. Niyogi | Labour | 220 |
No. 2 (Bury St. Edmunds: Eastgate)2 seats · turnout 55.1%
| B. Jennings | Conservative | 620 ✓ |
| R. Self | Conservative | 596 ✓ |
| S. Hayes | Labour | 508 |
| A. Dale | Labour | 420 |
No. 21 (Troston)1 seat
| J. Wortley | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 22 (Ixworth)1 seat · turnout 60.4%
| D. Cross | Conservative | 202 |
| P. Gay | Labour | 182 |
| M. Rowe | Independent | 131 |
No. 24 (Pakenham)1 seat · turnout 41.4%
| N. Whitwell | Independent | 208 |
| W. Rayner | Labour | 166 |
No. 27 (Horringer)1 seat
| V. Roth | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 28 (Chevington)1 seat
| J. Roberts | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 29 (Barrow)1 seat · turnout 40.4%
| P. English | Conservative | 327 |
| J. Wright | Independent | 209 |
No. 3 (Bury St. Edmunds: Northgate)2 seats · turnout 38.4%
| E. Steel | Labour | 643 |
| E. Spooner | Conservative | 567 |
| A. Miller | Labour | 534 |
| F. Baxter | Conservative | 439 |
No. 31 (Fornham)1 seat · turnout 42.2%
| J. Warren | Conservative | 355 |
| H. Nicholls | Independent | 192 |
No. 4 (Bury St. Edmunds: Risbygate)2 seats · turnout 45.8%
| H. Marsh | Ind Con | 481 |
| A. Davies | Conservative | 478 |
| D. Shackell | LIB | 400 |
| M. Lacey | Conservative | 293 |
| J. Williams | LIB | 288 |
No. 5 (Bury St. Edmunds: St. Olaves)2 seats · turnout 34.9%
| S. Wormleighton | Labour | 744 |
| W. McColl | Labour | 708 |
| S. Forrest | Independent | 253 |
| W. Hawes | Conservative | 121 |
No. 6 (Bury St. Edmunds: Sextons)2 seats · turnout 50.1%
| J. Knight | Conservative | 710 |
| A. Tatam | Conservative | 672 |
| D. Lockwood | Labour | 527 |
| R Nowak | Labour | 412 |
No. 7 (Bury St. Edmunds: Southgate)2 seats · turnout 41.5%
| R. Elliott | Conservative | 530 |
| L. Sewell | Conservative | 479 |
| E. Taylor | Independent | 436 |
| K. Coulling | Labour | 372 |
| A. Robertson | Labour | 354 |
No. 8 (Bury St. Edmunds: Westgate)2 seats · turnout 50.2%
| W. Cutting | Conservative | 729 |
| R. Crickitt | Conservative | 727 |
| Hay M. | Labour | 512 |
| R. Yates | Labour | 421 |
No. 9 (Haverhill: Cangle)2 seats · turnout 34.0%
| H. Eves | Labour | 694 |
| K. Poltock | Labour | 605 |
| S. Pelly | Conservative | 530 |
| G. Brookes | Conservative | 444 |
Whelnetham1 seat · turnout 46.5%
| K. Green | Conservative | 349 |
| N. Plumb | Labour | 284 |
Wickhambrook1 seat · turnout 44.6%
| V. Harrod | Independent | 260 |
| A. Hicks | LIB | 225 |
| J. Gardner | Independent | 117 |
Withersfield1 seat
| J. Mowbray | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
