Before (end of 1990) (42 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 24 · Liberal Democrats 10 · Other 7 · Labour 1
After (end of 1991) (42 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 25 · Liberal Democrats 10 · Other 6 · Labour 1
Ward results
Birchanger1 seat · turnout 53.2%
| D. Haggerwood | Conservative | 302 |
| K Williams | Labour | 117 |
Clavering1 seat
| E. Abrahams | Independent | 0 |
Elsenham1 seat
| J. Hurwitz | Conservative | 340 ✓ |
| A. Whitehouse | Liberal Democrats | 158 |
| M. Mott | Labour | 98 |
Felsted2 seats · turnout 39.7%
| D. Gregory | Liberal Democrats | 636 |
| J. Berry-Richards | Conservative | 588 |
| R. Head | Liberal Democrats | 501 |
Great Dunmow North2 seats
| M. Gaylor | Liberal Democrats | 632 ✓ |
| G. Powers | Liberal Democrats | 493 ✓ |
| M. Davey | Conservative | 385 |
| R. Handy | Conservative | 377 |
| K. Blackburn | Labour | 172 |
Great Dunmow South2 seats · turnout 39.5%
| Westcott D. | Conservative | 816 |
| N. Prowse | Liberal Democrats | 575 |
| D James | Conservative | 566 |
| D. Cole | Labour | 305 |
Great Hallingbury1 seat
| A. Streeter | Independent | 0 |
Hatfield Broad Oak1 seat
| R. Wood | Conservative | 0 |
Hatfield Heath1 seat · turnout 43.3%
| I. Delderfield | Conservative | 324 |
| W McCarthy | Labour | 177 |
Henham1 seat · turnout 54.8%
| F. Braeckman | Conservative | 326 |
| J Gibb | Liberal Democrats | 277 |
| J. Graddon | Labour | 56 |
Little Hallingbury1 seat
| A. Row | Conservative | 0 |
Littlebury1 seat
| J. Menell | Conservative | 0 |
Rickling1 seat · turnout 63.0%
| B. Smith | Conservative | 267 |
| Julie Westerby | Liberal Democrats | 231 |
Saffron Walden Audley2 seats · turnout 55.6%
| D. Miller | Conservative | 554 |
| J Lefever | Liberal Democrats | 554 |
| A. Walters | Conservative | 524 |
| J. Porter | Liberal Democrats | 519 |
| J. Evans | Labour | 184 |
| S Lake | Labour | 169 |
Saffron Walden Castle2 seats
| P. Paget | Liberal Democrats | 652 ✓ |
| K. Bigsby | Liberal Democrats | 518 ✓ |
| D. Cornell | Labour | 449 |
| R. Eastham | Conservative | 446 |
| D. Barrs | Labour | 409 |
| B. Chandler | Conservative | 372 |
Saffron Walden Plantation2 seats
| J. Ketteridge | Conservative | 583 ✓ |
| S. Neville | Conservative | 495 ✓ |
| R. Bunn | Labour | 358 |
| Yvonne Lily Morton | Labour | 356 |
| V. Hunter | Liberal Democrats | 350 |
| J. Drinkwater | Liberal Democrats | 346 |
Saffron Walden Shire2 seats · turnout 38.8%
| R. Green | Labour | 628 |
| R. Dean | Conservative | 398 |
| P. Price-Smith | Liberal Democrats | 322 |
| K. Pipe | Labour | 262 |
| F. Whittington | Liberal Democrats | 259 |
Stansted Mountfitchet3 seats · turnout 40.1%
| A. Dean | Liberal Democrats | 905 |
| M. Caton | Liberal Democrats | 850 |
| R. Clifford | Liberal Democrats | 828 |
| B. Gott | Conservative | 773 |
| P. Wellings | Independent | 723 |
| R Wallace | Conservative | 722 |
Stort Valley1 seat
| D. Collins | Conservative | 0 |
Takeley2 seats
| P. Macphail | Conservative | 412 ✓ |
| J. Cheetham | Conservative | 382 ✓ |
| J. Backus | Liberal Democrats | 304 |
| J. Oliveira | Labour | 302 |
Thaxted2 seats
| E. Walsh | Conservative | 609 ✓ |
| P. Leeder | Independent | 460 ✓ |
| S. Corke | Liberal Democrats | 367 |
| K. Donovan | Labour | 183 |
| D. Morgan | Independent | 118 |
| R Morgan | Independent | 91 |
The Canfields1 seat
| J. Wright | Conservative | 0 |
The Chesterfords1 seat
| A. Lightning | Conservative | 0 |
The Eastons1 seat
| P. Thorburn | Conservative | 0 ✓ |
| P. Thorburn | Conservative | 0 |
The Rodings1 seat
| K. Tivendale | Conservative | 0 |
The Sampfords1 seat · turnout 47.3%
| Hugh Hughes | Independent | 316 |
| R. Lander | Independent | 298 |
Wenden Lofts1 seat · turnout 58.9%
| R. Chambers | Conservative | 369 |
| R. Harcourt | Liberal Democrats | 285 |
Wimbish and Debden1 seat · turnout 48.8%
| N. Belcher | Conservative | 311 |
| R Stone | Independent | 233 |