Before (end of 1975) (63 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 42 · Labour 13 · The Liberal Party 8 · Other 0
After (end of 1976) (63 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 47 · Labour 12 · The Liberal Party 4 · Other 0
Ward results
No. 1 (Altrincham: Dunham & South West)1 seat · turnout 40.3%
| C. Gordon | Conservative | 1,373 |
| E. Axon | Labour | 687 |
| P. Fearnley | LIB | 506 |
No. 10 (Stretford: Cornbrook & Talbot North)1 seat · turnout 37.9%
| D. Sullivan | Labour | 1,786 |
| I. Thompson | Conservative | 1,143 |
| T. Dixon | LIB | 451 |
No. 11 (Stretford: Clifford Andtrafford)1 seat · turnout 41.5%
| V. Wynne | Labour | 1,355 |
| E. Kelson | Conservative | 1,172 |
| B. Stott | LIB | 206 |
No. 12 (Stretford: Talbot South & Longford)1 seat · turnout 39.0%
| O. Chandler | Conservative | 2,033 |
| A. Lloyd | Labour | 1,319 |
| H. Locksley | LIB | 446 |
No. 13 (Stretford: Stretford)1 seat · turnout 42.3%
| C. Warbrick | Conservative | 1,587 |
| G. Scott | Labour | 698 |
| C. Hedley | LIB | 181 |
No. 14 (Stretford: Park)1 seat · turnout 43.3%
| H. Pyper | Labour | 1,353 |
| W. Matthews | Conservative | 1,282 |
| M. Murray | COMM | 75 |
No. 15 (Bowdon & Hale: Central)1 seat · turnout 48.6%
| B. Hall | Conservative | 2,948 |
| J. Wynne | Labour | 534 |
No. 16 (Hale: North-Bollin-Well Green)1 seat · turnout 47.4%
| R. Godwin | Conservative | 3,807 |
| P. Scott | Labour | 560 |
No. 17 (Partington)1 seat · turnout 37.4%
| J Paul | Labour | 1,438 ✓ |
| M. Hindley | Conservative | 1,182 |
| P. Gallagher | COMM | 139 |
| W. Graham | Independent | 120 |
| K. Stewart | Independent | 72 |
No. 18 (Urmston East & West)1 seat · turnout 37.6%
| R. Higginson | Conservative | 1,798 |
| D. Taylor | Labour | 763 |
| A. Scanlon | LIB | 604 |
No. 19 (Flixton)2 seats · turnout 43.4%
| N. Fitzpatrick | Conservative | 2,492 |
| R. Hall | Conservative | 2,209 |
| G. Stuart | LIB | 1,153 |
| D. Watts | Conservative | 894 |
| R. Coulthard | Labour | 691 |
| M. Maxfield | LIB | 575 |
No. 2 (Altrincham: East Central & Timperley 2 & 3)1 seat · turnout 42.6%
| R. Hall | Conservative | 2,209 ✓ |
| G. Stuart | The Liberal Party | 1,153 |
| R. Coulthard | Labour | 691 |
No. 20 (Flixton West & Davyhulme West)1 seat · turnout 41.2%
| A Williams | Conservative | 2,432 |
| L. Seex | Labour | 1,212 |
| D. Gilbert | LIB | 384 |
No. 21 (Davyhulme East)1 seat · turnout 41.4%
| F. Eadie | Conservative | 1,348 |
| M. Treadaway | Labour | 685 |
| W. Munden | LIB | 218 |
No. 3 (Altrincham: North & Timperley 1)1 seat · turnout 45.0%
| G. Finch | Conservative | 1,610 |
| E. Faulkner | LIB | 719 |
| A. Hadley | Labour | 635 |
No. 4 (Altrincham: Timperley 4)1 seat · turnout 44.5%
| A. Weedall | Conservative | 1,695 |
| R. Bowker | LIB | 983 |
| J. Gregory | Labour | 884 |
No. 5 (Sale: St. Marys & Mersey)1 seat · turnout 45.0%
| I. Hurst | Conservative | 2,451 |
| R. Elliott | LIB | 1,184 |
| R. Tully | Labour | 393 |
No. 6 (Sale: St. Martins)1 seat · turnout 38.2%
| P. Morgan Evans | Conservative | 2,778 |
| G. Pollitt | Labour | 1,378 |
No. 7 (Sale: Sale Moor)1 seat · turnout 42.1%
| S. Turner | Conservative | 1,231 ✓ |
| Barry Brotherton | Labour | 1,221 |
| B. Willshaw | LIB | 301 |
| V. Eddisford | COMM | 49 |
No. 8 (Sale: St. Annes & St. Pauls)1 seat · turnout 45.3%
| J. Sutton | Conservative | 1,789 |
| W. Golding | LIB | 1,208 |
| J. Morgan | Labour | 858 |
No. 9 (Sale: Brooklands & St.Johns)1 seat · turnout 45.2%
| J. Ludlam | Conservative | 2,693 |
| H. Hughes | LIB | 1,302 |
