Before (end of 1974) (60 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 37 · Conservative 14 · The Liberal Party 9 · Other 0
After (end of 1975) (60 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 28 · Conservative 22 · The Liberal Party 10 · Other 0
Ward results
No. 1 (Healey)1 seat · turnout 40.2%
| Jenkins | LIB | 913 ✓ |
| Chowdry | Labour | 825 |
| Carter | Conservative | 762 |
| Sunderland | Independent | 177 |
No. 10 (Heywood West)1 seat · turnout 24.3%
| H. Kelly | Conservative | 808 |
| D. Beeny | Labour | 741 |
| Davenport | LIB | 295 |
No. 11 (Heywood North)1 seat · turnout 32.4%
| E. Aspinall | Conservative | 1,074 |
| B. Warburton | Labour | 805 |
| A. Ryan | LIB | 506 |
No. 12 (Heywood South)1 seat · turnout 36.6%
| M. Ingoe | Conservative | 1,301 ✓ |
| M. Fergus | Labour | 896 |
| C. Gee | LIB | 334 |
| McCulloch | Independent | 239 |
No. 13 (Middleton East)1 seat · turnout 32.9%
| Bonner | Conservative | 1,112 |
| N. Haslam | Labour | 631 |
No. 14 (Middleton South)1 seat · turnout 45.0%
| P. Hawton | Conservative | 2,306 |
| Holland | LIB | 891 |
| Hunt | Labour | 635 |
No. 15 (Middleton West)1 seat · turnout 19.8%
| J. Brown | Labour | 1,081 |
| Mannion | Conservative | 536 |
| M. Massey | COMM | 116 |
No. 16 (Middleton Central & Hollin)1 seat · turnout 30.4%
| Ogden | Conservative | 1,145 |
| D. Brereton | Labour | 1,128 |
No. 17 (Middleton North)1 seat · turnout 32.7%
| J. Hatton | Conservative | 1,584 |
| J. Evans | Labour | 789 |
| N. Needham | Independent | 183 |
No. 18 (Littleborough)1 seat · turnout 36.6%
| J. Angus | Conservative | 1,903 |
| McHugh | LIB | 880 |
| Wade | Labour | 869 |
No. 19 (Milnrow)1 seat · turnout 39.0%
| H. Greenwood | Conservative | 1,771 |
| Brewin | Labour | 823 |
| Williams | LIB | 625 |
No. 2 (Newbold & Wardleworth)1 seat · turnout 28.8%
| P. Howarth | Labour | 805 ✓ |
| J. Sunderland | Independent | 488 |
| Riley | Conservative | 457 |
| McGrath | NF | 200 |
No. 20 (Wardle)1 seat · turnout 43.5%
| H. Chesney | Conservative | 777 |
| E. Mellowdew | Labour | 690 |
| Philbin | LIB | 316 |
No. 3 (Deeplish & Brimrod)1 seat · turnout 31.3%
| J. Fletcher | Conservative | 1,406 ✓ |
| Haslam | Labour | 1,100 |
| McKeon | Ind LIB | 307 |
| Aerstall | NF | 167 |
No. 4 (Balderstone)1 seat · turnout 34.2%
| G. Ogden | Conservative | 1,723 ✓ |
| J. Ashworth | Labour | 1,178 |
| Owen | Independent | 194 |
| S. Hodgkinson | COMM | 95 |
No. 5 (Castleton)1 seat · turnout 34.6%
| T. Booth | Labour | 1,300 |
| A. Threlfall | LIB | 1,042 |
| Shepherd | Conservative | 597 |
No. 6 (Spotland)1 seat · turnout 40.8%
| Smith | LIB | 1,659 |
| Brown | Labour | 454 |
| H. Cockburn | NF | 196 |
No. 7 (Central & Falinge)2 seats · turnout 34.5%
| A. Taylor | LIB | 1,140 ✓ |
| B. Rostron | LIB | 1,087 ✓ |
| M. Randle | Labour | 983 |
| W. Quinn | Labour | 889 |
| Campion | Conservative | 500 |
| Bent | Conservative | 483 |
| Sellors | NF | 246 |
| McGrath | NF | 196 |
| P. Atkinson | COMM | 72 |
No. 8 (Norden & Bamford)1 seat · turnout 45.2%
| G. Keegan | Conservative | 2,002 |
| Webster | LIB | 1,060 |
| Jeffrey | Labour | 298 |
No. 9 (Smallbridge)1 seat · turnout 33.7%
| A. Sanderson | Labour | 764 ✓ |
| N. Paterson | LIB | 708 |
| Smith | Conservative | 273 |
| S. Hoyle | COMM | 40 |