Before (end of 1972)
Not known.
After (end of 1973) (40 seats, Elections Centre)
Other 24 · Labour 9 · Conservative 6 · The Liberal Party 1
Ward results
Badwell Ash1 seat
| H. Linn | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Claydon1 seat
| J. Williams | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Eye1 seat · turnout 58.2%
| C. Flatman | Labour | 413 |
| H. Havers | Independent | 388 |
Fressingfield1 seat
| B. Thurston | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Gislingham1 seat · turnout 41.8%
| P. Watson | Independent | 333 |
| R. Chitty | Conservative | 185 |
Haughley and Wetherden1 seat
| E. Crascall | Labour | 0 ✓ |
Helmingham1 seat
| R. Willsher | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Hoxne1 seat · turnout 37.0%
| W. McNamara | Conservative | 273 |
| R. Gooderham | Labour | 158 |
Mendlesham1 seat
| A. Braybrooke | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Needham Market1 seat · turnout 60.1%
| J. Swain | Conservative | 428 |
| S. Bugg | Independent | 299 |
| H. Phillips | Labour | 181 |
No. 16 (Stowupland)2 seats · turnout 54.4%
| A. Addison | Labour | 595 |
| M Shave | Labour | 458 |
| J. Carter | Conservative | 393 |
| S. Wilson | LIB | 252 |
| G. Leeks | Independent | 226 |
| R. Groom | Conservative | 176 |
No. 2 (Stowmarket)6 seats · turnout 23.8%
| F. Brooke | LIB | 1,247 |
| R. Jones | Labour | 1,195 |
| R. Pattle | Independent | 1,110 |
| C. Soames | Labour | 1,093 |
| R. Hiron | Labour | 1,082 |
| E. Jones | Labour | 1,068 |
| P. Howard | Ind Lab | 1,063 |
| A. Clarke | Labour | 917 |
| E. Nunn | Labour | 817 |
No. 26 (Bacton)1 seat
| V. Beake | Independent | 0 ✓ |
| S. Edwards | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 29 (Badwell Ash)1 seat
| H. Linn | Independent | 0 ✓ |
No. 33 (Woolpit)1 seat
| R. Bland | Independent | 0 ✓ |
No. 34 (Rattlesden)1 seat
| L. Muir | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
No. 5 (Ringshall)1 seat · turnout 33.9%
| H. Crooks | Independent | 219 |
| H. Cartwright | Independent | 78 |
| A. Winchester | Independent | 49 |
No. 7 (Barking)1 seat
| E. Wilton | Independent | 0 ✓ |
No. 8 (Somersham)1 seat · turnout 33.8%
| S. Keyte | Independent | 225 |
| C. Bird | Independent | 197 |
No. 9 (Bramford)1 seat · turnout 24.3%
| G. Cunningham | Labour | 244 |
| E. Fisk | Independent | 145 |
Norton1 seat
| F. Armstrong | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Palgrave1 seat · turnout 45.8%
| W. Wickett | Independent | 362 |
| O. West | Conservative | 178 |
Rickinghall1 seat
| M. Gowen | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Stonham1 seat
| R. Penistan | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Stradbroke1 seat
| S. Hawes | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Thurston1 seat · turnout 38.7%
| Phil Howe | Independent | 251 |
| J. Moreland | LIB | 162 |
Wetheringsett1 seat · turnout 52.4%
| P. Sleigh | Independent | 328 |
| R. Mills | Labour | 291 |
Weybread1 seat
| F. Hadingham | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Worlingworth1 seat · turnout 46.4%
| R. Harvey | Conservative | 322 |
| R. Bushby | Labour | 211 |