Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (78 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 56 · Conservative 21 · Other 1 · The Liberal Party 0
Ward results
| J. Donnelly | Labour | 1,388 |
| N. Dunn | Labour | 1,337 |
| M. Rathbone | Labour | 1,330 |
| W. Norman | Ind Lab | 1,163 |
| P. Wood | Conservative | 312 |
No. 22 (Houghton-Le-Spring)3 seats
| E Bramfitt | Labour | 1,263 ✓ |
| J Bartley | Labour | 1,209 ✓ |
| J Storey | Labour | 1,080 ✓ |
| Leonard Davidson | Conservative | 950 |
| A Wright | Conservative | 931 |
| M Wright | Conservative | 813 |
| A Wheeler | Ind Lab | 333 |
| J. Mawston | Labour | 0 ✓ |
| T. Willis | Labour | 0 ✓ |
| M. Porter | Labour | 0 ✓ |
No. 4 (Sunderland: Colliery)3 seats
| W Scott | Labour | 983 ✓ |
| Jo Goldsmith | Labour | 983 ✓ |
| A Archbold | Labour | 949 ✓ |
| L Harrison | Conservative | 714 |
| Daisy Clement | Conservative | 697 |
| M Todd | Conservative | 672 |
| J Downing | LIB | 312 |
| F Lewins | Labour | 1,199 ✓ |
| Alan Christopher Myers | Labour | 1,108 ✓ |
| Jane Ann Hudson | Labour | 1,089 ✓ |
| E Spain | Conservative | 1,017 |
| J Wyness | Conservative | 898 |
| B Watson | LIB | 620 |
| J Murphy | LIB | 567 |
| W Vincent | COMM | 134 |
| A. Waistell | Labour | 1,160 ✓ |
| M. Qualie | Labour | 1,081 ✓ |
| R. Baxter | Labour | 1,036 ✓ |
| C. Finnegan | Conservative | 338 |
| J. Don | COMM | 133 |
No. 8 (Sunderland: Fulwell)3 seats · turnout 31.0%
| T. Wood | Conservative | 2,253 ✓ |
| C. Bloomfield | Conservative | 2,199 ✓ |
| E. Rutherford | Conservative | 2,152 ✓ |
| D. McCourt | The Liberal Party | 711 |
| A. Otterson | Labour | 507 |
No. 9 (Sunderland: Hendon)3 seats
| D Whiteman | Conservative | 1,270 ✓ |
| R Small | Conservative | 1,216 ✓ |
| D Lascelles | Conservative | 1,212 ✓ |
| G Dodds | Labour | 669 |
| Mark Thomson | Labour | 633 |
| T Briggs | Labour | 597 |
St Chad's3 seats
| P Weightman | Conservative | 1,374 ✓ |
| James Taylor | Conservative | 1,348 ✓ |
| D McNish | Conservative | 1,347 ✓ |
| G Affleck | Labour | 929 |
| E Glanville | Labour | 857 |
| J Glanville | Labour | 850 |
| J Scott-Thompson | LIB | 481 |