Before (end of 1979) (45 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 26 · Labour 19 · Other 0 · The Liberal Party 0
After (end of 1980) (45 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 24 · Conservative 21 · The Liberal Party 0 · Other 0
Ward results
Blackbird Leys1 seat
| B. Gatehouse | Labour | 1,899 |
| J. Bartlett | Conservative | 387 |
Central1 seat
| A. Griffiths | Labour | 776 |
| M. O'Reilly | Conservative | 756 |
| D. Quigley | LIB | 147 |
Cherwell1 seat
| F. Garside | Conservative | 1,299 ✓ |
| S. Spencer | Labour | 676 |
| S. Griffiths | LIB | 242 |
| R. Helling | Ecol | 64 |
East1 seat
| S. Martin | Labour | 1,207 ✓ |
| J. Matthews | Conservative | 732 |
| M. Butler | RES | 168 |
| R. Brooker | LIB | 129 |
| A. Cheke | Ecol | 59 |
Headington1 seat
| N. Tiffany | Conservative | 1,167 |
| D. Phillips | RES | 139 |
Iffley1 seat
| A. Fenley | Labour | 1,526 ✓ |
| F. Shellard | Conservative | 1,345 |
| D. Robinson | LIB | 160 |
| N. Hawkins | Ecol | 30 |
Marston1 seat
| J. Deegan | Labour | 1,535 |
| Watkins J. | Conservative | 895 |
North1 seat
| A. Turner | Conservative | 949 ✓ |
| T. Richardson | Labour | 633 |
| D. Roaf | LIB | 631 |
| R. Jaques | Ecol | 94 |
Quarry1 seat
| D. Frith | Conservative | 1,147 ✓ |
| R. Lawrence | Labour | 728 |
| F. Cave | LIB | 242 |
| P. Hull | Ecol | 50 |
St Clement's1 seat
| P. Moss | Labour | 1,265 ✓ |
| G. Thompson | Conservative | 979 |
| M. Godden | LIB | 237 |
| P. Foggitt | Ecol | 136 |
Temple Cowley1 seat
| H. Nimmo | Labour | 1,346 |
| G. Dixon | Conservative | 1,126 |
West1 seat
| J. Power | Labour | 1,351 ✓ |
| G. Gunn | Conservative | 716 |
| J. Hannon | LIB | 148 |
| J. Carpenter | Ecol | 148 |
Wolvercote1 seat
| R. Macdonald | Conservative | 1,381 ✓ |
| C. Ruse | Labour | 613 |
| V. Pasley | LIB | 308 |
| J. Helling | Ecol | 96 |
Wood Farm1 seat
| A. Ramsay | Labour | 1,245 |
| J. Campbell | Conservative | 637 |
| B. Ashton | LIB | 298 |