Before (end of 1974) (63 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 33 · Labour 18 · The Liberal Party 12 · Other 0
After (end of 1975) (63 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 42 · Labour 13 · The Liberal Party 8 · Other 0
Ward results
No. 1 (Altrincham: Dunham & South West)1 seat · turnout 41.6%
| A. Whitehurst | Conservative | 1,147 |
| J. Kenny | LIB | 806 |
| R. Crossman | Labour | 721 |
No. 10 (Stretford: Cornbrook & Talbot North)1 seat · turnout 34.9%
| H. Cronshaw | Labour | 1,406 |
| E. Kelson | Conservative | 950 |
| T. Dixon | LIB | 729 |
No. 11 (Stretford: Clifford Andtrafford)1 seat · turnout 34.9%
| R. Corke | Conservative | 1,309 |
| J. Maher | Labour | 981 |
No. 12 (Stretford: Talbot South & Longford)1 seat · turnout 35.6%
| A Kelly | Conservative | 1,844 |
| K. Silcock | Labour | 1,064 |
| J. Stockley | LIB | 557 |
No. 13 (Stretford: Stretford)1 seat · turnout 39.8%
| H. Walker | Conservative | 1,468 |
| G. Scott | Labour | 588 |
| R. Sangster | LIB | 268 |
No. 14 (Stretford: Park)1 seat · turnout 39.9%
| J. Schofield | Conservative | 1,061 ✓ |
| J. Haydock | Labour | 1,032 |
| W. Munden | LIB | 324 |
| A. Jarratt | COMM | 61 |
No. 15 (Bowdon & Hale: Central)1 seat · turnout 49.9%
| J. Humphreys | Conservative | 2,520 |
| G. Willmott | LIB | 545 |
| A. Johnson | Labour | 440 |
No. 16 (Hale: North-Bollin-Well Green)2 seats · turnout 40.4%
| N. Barrett | Conservative | 3,208 |
| R. Godwin | Conservative | 3,058 |
| R. Allen | LIB | 1,047 |
No. 17 (Partington)1 seat · turnout 27.6%
| M. Barltrop | Conservative | 996 |
| C. Younghusband | Labour | 991 |
| E. Wilkinson | COMM | 140 |
No. 18 (Urmston East & West)1 seat · turnout 43.3%
| A. Platt | Conservative | 1,968 |
| D. Taylor | Labour | 854 |
| G. Davies | LIB | 790 |
No. 19 (Flixton)1 seat · turnout 93.9%
| G. Lumby | Conservative | 2,363 ✓ |
| D. Gilbert | LIB | 1,123 |
| C. Nightingale | Labour | 851 |
No. 2 (Altrincham: East Central & Timperley 2 & 3)1 seat · turnout 44.8%
| P. Leigh | Conservative | 2,016 ✓ |
| J. Richardson | The Liberal Party | 1,574 |
| J. Gregory | Labour | 632 |
No. 20 (Flixton West & Davyhulme West)1 seat · turnout 43.1%
| D. Harding | Conservative | 2,414 |
| L. Seex | Labour | 1,088 |
| E. Teal | LIB | 598 |
No. 21 (Davyhulme East)1 seat · turnout 41.6%
| R. Crosbie | Conservative | 1,125 |
| W. Williams | Labour | 566 |
| T. Owen | LIB | 554 |
No. 3 (Altrincham: North & Timperley 1)1 seat · turnout 44.1%
| C. Harrison | Conservative | 1,387 |
| E. Faulkner | LIB | 803 |
| B. Jones | Labour | 704 |
No. 4 (Altrincham: Timperley 4)1 seat · turnout 42.6%
| J. Robertson | Conservative | 1,626 |
| J. Webb | Labour | 1,026 |
| C. Gibson | LIB | 741 |
No. 5 (Sale: St. Marys & Mersey)1 seat · turnout 41.4%
| R. Bannister | Conservative | 2,069 |
| K. Humber | LIB | 1,591 |
No. 6 (Sale: St. Martins)1 seat · turnout 30.4%
| S. Brownhill | Conservative | 2,276 |
| J. Morgan | Labour | 1,020 |
No. 7 (Sale: Sale Moor)1 seat · turnout 39.4%
| A. Rhodes | Conservative | 1,105 ✓ |
| Barry Brotherton | Labour | 888 |
| M Woods | LIB | 550 |
| A. Burrage | COMM | 61 |
No. 8 (Sale: St. Annes & St. Pauls)1 seat · turnout 41.0%
| New K. | Conservative | 1,642 |
| A. Thorpe | LIB | 1,195 |
| D. Teasdale | Labour | 631 |
No. 9 (Sale: Brooklands & St.Johns)1 seat · turnout 45.7%
| J. Taylor | Conservative | 2,362 |
| S. Evans | LIB | 1,375 |
| E. Wollaston | Labour | 338 |