Before (end of 1989) (66 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 58 · Liberal Democrats 4 · Conservative 3 · Other 1
After (end of 1990) (66 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 60 · Liberal Democrats 4 · Conservative 2 · Other 0
Ward results
Birtley1 seat · turnout 50.5%
| J. Bonney | Labour | 1,961 |
| S. King | LIB | 1,164 |
| D. Edwards | Conservative | 154 |
Crawcrook & Greenside1 seat · turnout 41.9%
| R Highmoor | Labour | 2,041 |
| N. Rippeth | SLD | 729 |
| D. Stokoe | Conservative | 247 |
Deckham1 seat · turnout 35.4%
| June Joyce | Labour | 1,652 |
| Ada Callanan | Conservative | 262 |
| M. Sweeney | SLD | 193 |
Dunston2 seats · turnout 40.9%
| D. Bollands | Labour | 2,635 |
| A. Brooks | Labour | 2,565 |
| M. Bates | Conservative | 334 |
| S. Mitchell | Conservative | 266 |
| A. Cartwright | SLD | 257 |
| D. Cartwright | SLD | 207 |
High Fell1 seat · turnout 44.3%
| W Maddison | Labour | 2,620 |
| S. Sweeney | SLD | 174 |
| F. Scott | Conservative | 171 |
Ryton1 seat · turnout 58.5%
| S. Cowan | Labour | 2,062 |
| N. Callender | SLD | 1,917 |
| T. Wyrley-Birch | Conservative | 236 |
Teams1 seat · turnout 44.3%
| L. Carr | Labour | 2,934 |
| P. Maughan | SLD | 199 |
| Barbara Nye | Conservative | 170 |
Whickham North1 seat · turnout 44.5%
| A. Brazendale | Labour | 2,339 |
| M. Ord | SLD | 741 |
| I. McCarthy | Conservative | 642 |
