Before (end of 1987) (35 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 19 · Labour 9 · Other 5 · SDP-Liberal Alliance 2
After (end of 1988) (35 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 19 · Labour 9 · Other 5 · Liberal Democrats 2
Ward results
Abbey North1 seat · turnout 35.4%
| M. Gauton | Labour | 660 |
| W. Tutcher | Conservative | 281 |
Abbey South1 seat · turnout 42.5%
| C. Over | Conservative | 602 |
| A. Stevens | Labour | 518 |
Boughton and Pitsford1 seat · turnout 43.9%
| John Shephard | Conservative | 401 |
| B. McGowan | Labour | 67 |
Brixworth1 seat · turnout 40.9%
| I. Bates | Conservative | 925 |
| P. Williams | SLD | 345 |
| J Saffer | Labour | 138 |
Drayton1 seat
| W. Goodridge | Labour | 0 ✓ |
Flore1 seat · turnout 43.6%
| F. Chaplin | Conservative | 522 |
| C. Matthews | Labour | 157 |
Hill1 seat · turnout 27.8%
| J. Humphreys | Labour | 590 |
| B. McClean | Conservative | 200 |
Kilsby1 seat · turnout 48.2%
| J. Cox | Conservative | 584 |
| M. Boniface | Labour | 198 |
Ravensthorpe1 seat · turnout 51.6%
| J. Powell | Conservative | 531 |
| J. Penrose | Labour | 157 |
Welford1 seat · turnout 59.1%
| R. James | Conservative | 313 |
| J. Woolley | Labour | 173 |
| J. Corbett | SDP | 148 |
