Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (45 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 36 · Conservative 9 · Other 0 · The Liberal Party 0
Ward results
Billinge & Seneley Green3 seats
| Hogan | Labour | 1,673 |
| Bentham | Labour | 1,580 |
| Daley | Labour | 1,578 |
| Marlow | Ind LIB | 1,146 |
| Rowdell | Conservative | 923 |
No. 10 (Newton-Le-Willows: Newton & Wargrave)3 seats · turnout 40.3%
| Paton | Labour | 2,038 ✓ |
| N. Kershaw | Labour | 2,020 ✓ |
| Chisnall | Labour | 1,945 ✓ |
| Collins | Conservative | 1,256 |
| Vale | Conservative | 1,140 |
| M. Monks | Conservative | 1,125 |
No. 5 (St. Helens: North Eccleston & South Windle)3 seats · turnout 23.8%
| J. Greenall | Labour | 1,144 ✓ |
| T. Forshaw | Labour | 1,139 ✓ |
| J. Gill | Labour | 1,114 ✓ |
| Heaton | Conservative | 876 |
| Penketh | Conservative | 861 |
| Kelly | Conservative | 828 |
| Williams | Labour | 1,807 |
| R. Halsall | Labour | 1,785 |
| McNamara | Labour | 1,762 |
| Benbow | Conservative | 857 |
| Griffiths | Conservative | 846 |
| Barr | Conservative | 820 |
Rainford3 seats
| Berry | Conservative | 1,853 |
| A. Brown | Conservative | 1,345 |
| J. Collins | Labour | 1,292 |
| J. Dyson | Conservative | 1,276 |
| Murchison | Labour | 1,044 |
| D. Richardson | Labour | 983 |
| Frodsham | Independent | 844 |
| Smith | Independent | 795 |