Before (end of 1999) (60 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 56 · Liberal Democrats 4 · Conservative 0 · Other 0
After (end of 2000) (60 seats, Elections Centre)
Labour 52 · Liberal Democrats 5 · Conservative 3 · Other 0
Ward results
Blackfriars1 seat
| J. Hincks | Labour | 455 ✓ |
| M Peach | Liberal Democrats | 310 |
Broughton1 seat
| J. King | Labour | 832 ✓ |
| Susan Carson | Liberal Democrats | 304 |
Claremont1 seat
| B. Carson | Liberal Democrats | 1,224 ✓ |
| Barbara Sylvia Russell Miller | Labour | 717 |
| C. Davies | Conservative | 574 |
Eccles1 seat
| E. Sheehy | Labour | 1,015 ✓ |
| M. Edwards | Conservative | 791 |
| Christine Lomax | Liberal Democrats | 422 |
Irlam1 seat
| R. Lightup | Labour | 814 ✓ |
| Elizabeth Hill | Conservative | 596 |
| Julie Wenham | Liberal Democrats | 214 |
Kersal1 seat
| D. Miller | Labour | 890 ✓ |
| H. Lingard | Conservative | 362 |
| S Portnoy | Liberal Democrats | 223 |
| C Barlow | LIB | 88 |
Langworthy1 seat
| C Beaumont | Labour | 407 ✓ |
| C. Barnes | LIB | 323 |
| B Jones | Liberal Democrats | 233 |
Little Hulton1 seat
| Alice Smyth | Labour | 725 ✓ |
| J. McInnes | Conservative | 226 |
| Jean Blainey | Liberal Democrats | 163 |
Ordsall1 seat
| P. Dobbs | Labour | 426 ✓ |
| A. Gibbons | Independent | 232 |
| Mariska Jones | Liberal Democrats | 75 |
| C Broadhurst | LIB | 66 |
Pendlebury1 seat
| Patricia Lea | Labour | 1,023 ✓ |
| Marjorie Weston | Conservative | 540 |
| Valerie Gregory | Liberal Democrats | 461 |
Swinton North1 seat
| C. Hinds | Labour | 915 ✓ |
| N. Levay | Conservative | 551 |
| L. Revell | Liberal Democrats | 410 |
Swinton South1 seat
| Christine Upton | Conservative | 984 ✓ |
| J. Short | Labour | 851 |
| P. Gregory | Liberal Democrats | 469 |
Walkden South1 seat
| S. Witkowski | Labour | 1,008 ✓ |
| J. Mosley | Conservative | 830 |
| A. Hunt | Liberal Democrats | 554 |
| P McHale | Independent | 128 |
Weaste & Seedley1 seat
| Janice Heywood | Liberal Democrats | 868 |
| S. Cooper | Conservative | 415 |
Weaste and Seedley1 seat
| Janice Heywood | Liberal Democrats | 868 ✓ |
| D. Jolley | Labour | 634 |
| S. Cooper | Conservative | 415 |
Winton1 seat
| D. Eglin | Labour | 838 ✓ |
| Pauline Ogden | Liberal Democrats | 436 |
| Judith Tope | Conservative | 402 |
Worsley & Boothstown1 seat
| Karen Garrido | Conservative | 1,597 ✓ |
| Sara Bradbury | Liberal Democrats | 1,474 |
| Phil Wheeler | Labour | 447 |