Before (end of 1974)
Not known.
After (end of 1975)
Not known.
Ward results
No. 1 (Great Lever)1 seat · turnout 29.5%
| L. Huyton | Conservative | 2,031 |
| A. Perry | Labour | 1,027 |
No. 10 (Bradford)1 seat · turnout 34.6%
| C. Scull | Labour | 1,014 |
| S. Haslam | Conservative | 593 |
No. 11 (Heaton)1 seat · turnout 47.8%
| B. Hurst | Conservative | 2,038 |
| S. Harrison | Labour | 172 |
No. 12 (Rumworth & Hulton)1 seat · turnout 37.8%
| R. Carr | Conservative | 2,032 ✓ |
| D. Vause | Labour | 1,367 |
| D. Roberts | NF | 293 |
| G. Stewart | Anti Fascist | 35 |
No. 13 (Church-East-North)1 seat · turnout 40.3%
| A. O'Neill | Conservative | 1,689 |
| J. Perry | Labour | 791 |
| J. Walton | LIB | 217 |
No. 14 (Farnworth North)1 seat · turnout 28.8%
| A. Royse | Conservative | 1,266 ✓ |
| G. Brown | Labour | 1,145 |
| J. Lever | LIB | 271 |
| T. Hill | COMM | 77 |
No. 15 (Farnworth South)1 seat · turnout 21.9%
| D. Gilligan | Labour | 1,007 |
| J. Barrow | LIB | 513 |
| C. Gregory | Conservative | 508 |
No. 17 (Blackrod & Horwich South)1 seat · turnout 40.3%
| J. Jolley | Conservative | 1,271 |
| G. Gardiner | Labour | 779 |
| G. Farrington | LIB | 534 |
No. 18 (Kearsley)1 seat · turnout 37.1%
| D. Bedford | LIB | 1,188 |
| R. Cornthwaite | Labour | 1,126 |
| T. Rothwell | Conservative | 858 |
No. 19 (Little Lever)1 seat · turnout 38.4%
| A. Lawton | Conservative | 1,333 |
| R. Richardson | LIB | 769 |
| J. Robinson | Labour | 753 |
No. 20 (Bradshaw)1 seat · turnout 46.5%
| K. Howarth | Conservative | 1,462 ✓ |
| D. Hewitt | RES | 722 |
| J. Webster | LIB | 565 |
| C. Benjamin | Labour | 173 |
No. 21 (Bromley Cross-Eagley-Egerton)1 seat · turnout 44.2%
| H. Bennett | Conservative | 2,096 |
| G. Coomer | LIB | 843 |
| M. Moloney | Labour | 713 |
No. 22 (Westhoughton North Central & South)1 seat · turnout 37.4%
| P. Woodcock | Labour | 1,390 |
| R. Hart | Conservative | 1,268 |
No. 23 (Westhoughton East & Hulton)1 seat · turnout 39.2%
| J. Smith | Conservative | 1,688 |
| P. Jones | Labour | 579 |
No. 3 (Tonge)1 seat · turnout 33.6%
| J. Rigby | Conservative | 2,396 |
| J. Knight | Labour | 1,323 |
No. 4 (Smithills)1 seat · turnout 35.6%
| S. Collier | Conservative | 2,938 |
| N. Morlidge | Labour | 711 |
| M. Taylor | Independent | 214 |
No. 5 (Halliwell)1 seat · turnout 33.0%
| J. Walsh | Conservative | 1,804 |
| G. Riley | Labour | 1,256 |
| J. Walsh | NF | 202 |
No. 7 (West)1 seat · turnout 24.5%
| D. Chinn | Conservative | 1,017 |
| H. Devenish | Labour | 972 |
No. 8 (Deane-Cum-Lostock)1 seat · turnout 38.0%
| R. Ward | Conservative | 2,015 |
| J. Walker | Labour | 590 |
No. 9 (Derby)1 seat · turnout 28.1%
| S. Walsh | Labour | 1,052 |
| D. Smith | Conservative | 659 |