Before (end of 1982) (49 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 38 · Other 9 · SDP-Liberal Alliance 1 · Labour 1
After (end of 1983) (49 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 37 · Other 8 · SDP-Liberal Alliance 3 · Labour 1
Ward results
ACLE1 seat · turnout 39.5%
| R. Clarke | Independent | 549 |
| B. McCloughan | Labour | 87 |
Blofield1 seat · turnout 52.0%
| L. Ballard | Conservative | 839 |
| P. Moulding | Lib/Sdp | 336 |
Burlingham1 seat · turnout 39.7%
| C. Bardwell | Independent | 462 |
| E. Mills | Independent | 373 |
Buxton1 seat
| D. Smithson | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
Freethorpe1 seat
| F. Siddall | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Hainford1 seat · turnout 52.9%
| F. Edge | Conservative | 354 |
| W. Richards | Lib/Sdp | 305 |
Horsford1 seat · turnout 47.4%
| G. Godfrey | Independent | 511 |
| V. Shaw | Lib/Sdp | 137 |
| B. Stubbs | Labour | 108 |
South Walsham1 seat
| C. Everson | Independent | 0 ✓ |
Sprowston Central1 seat · turnout 42.0%
| M. Hardingham | Conservative | 775 |
| K. Lashley | Labour | 446 |
| D. Dewgarde | Lib/Sdp | 182 |
Sprowston East1 seat · turnout 48.1%
| L. Woolf | Conservative | 839 |
| R Dyball | Labour | 463 |
| C. Randall | Lib/Sdp | 388 |
Sprowston South1 seat · turnout 50.4%
| S. Beadle | Lib/Sdp | 548 |
| E. Gross | Conservative | 503 |
| S. Smitton | Labour | 242 |
Sprowston West1 seat · turnout 39.8%
| H Maidment | Conservative | 307 |
| J. Farrington | Labour | 244 |
| S. Nicholson | Lib/Sdp | 88 |
| A. Halliday | Conservative | 687 |
| S. Riseborough | Labour | 229 |
| A. Young | Lib/Sdp | 122 |
Thorpe St. Andrew Northeast1 seat · turnout 40.4%
| E Harris | Conservative | 720 |
| J. Clayton | Lib/Sdp | 336 |
| P. Ducker | Labour | 285 |
