Before (end of 1982) (56 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 37 · Conservative 11 · SDP-Liberal Alliance 8 · Other 0
After (end of 1983) (56 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 39 · Conservative 8 · SDP-Liberal Alliance 6 · Other 3
Ward results
Audley and Bignall End1 seat · turnout 44.2%
| M. Platt | Labour | 1,566 |
| B. Edwards | Conservative | 641 |
Bradwell1 seat · turnout 39.1%
| T. Meir | Labour | 1,301 |
| A. Goulden | All | 632 |
Butt Lane1 seat · turnout 39.7%
| B Campbell | Labour | 1,101 |
| J. Biegus | Conservative | 502 |
| J. Rosson | Independent | 188 |
Chesterton1 seat · turnout 35.2%
| J. Billington | Labour | 1,481 |
| C. Boden | Conservative | 210 |
Cross Heath1 seat · turnout 44.7%
| G. Green | Labour | 1,571 |
| A. Caddick-Adams | Conservative | 674 |
Halmerend1 seat · turnout 38.0%
| I. Williams | Labour | 655 |
| S. Chandler | Conservative | 312 |
Holditch1 seat · turnout 36.8%
| T. Bethell | Labour | 943 |
| S. Pickard | Conservative | 228 |
Keele1 seat · turnout 42.6%
| G Cairns | Labour | 694 ✓ |
| R. Wallace | All | 394 |
| C. Harrison | Independent | 293 |
| C. Fairholme | Conservative | 232 |
Loggerheads1 seat · turnout 42.3%
| A. Mills | Independent | 588 |
| J. Griffith | Conservative | 453 |
| J. Hind | Labour | 117 |
Madeley1 seat · turnout 50.9%
| J. Matthews | Labour | 817 |
| S. Higginson | Conservative | 713 |
| D. Balfour | All | 335 |
May Bank1 seat · turnout 49.0%
| J. McKimmie | Conservative | 760 ✓ |
| D. Maciver | All | 711 |
| M. Clarke | Labour | 589 |
| G. Poole | Independent | 167 |
Newchapel2 seats · turnout 38.6%
| D. Burch | Labour | 802 |
| L. Burch | Labour | 800 |
| A. Amos | Independent | 645 |
| K. Bolton | Independent | 436 |
| C. Jefferies | Conservative | 413 |
| C. Manley | Conservative | 389 |
Silverdale1 seat · turnout 40.1%
| Hughes B. | Labour | 1,807 |
| M. Johnson | Conservative | 209 |
| A. Sheeran | All | 185 |
Talke1 seat · turnout 54.3%
| P. Forster | All | 1,046 |
| J. Cooper | Labour | 644 |
| J. Shipley | Independent | 177 |
Thistleberry1 seat · turnout 56.3%
| R. Lane | Labour | 988 |
| F. Taylor | All | 921 |
| L. Chandler | Conservative | 842 |
