Before (end of 2007) (45 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 28 · Labour 17 · Liberal Democrats 0 · Other 0
After (end of 2008) (45 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 29 · Labour 14 · Other 2 · Liberal Democrats 0
Ward results
ALFRETON1 seat
| Marlene Bennett | Labour | 872 ✓ |
| David Cantrill | Conservative | 731 |
| Paul Robin Gibbons | Liberal Democrats | 206 |
Belper Central1 seat
| John Nelson | Conservative | 894 ✓ |
| David Wells | Green | 292 |
| Ben Hobbs | Labour | 286 |
Belper North1 seat
| Antonia Cox | Conservative | 797 ✓ |
| Ben Bellamy | Labour | 286 |
| Richard Alan Salmon | Liberal Democrats | 279 |
| Colin Grimley | Green | 202 |
Codnor and Waingroves1 seat
| Chris Emmas-Williams | Labour | 573 ✓ |
| Robert Philips-Forsyth | Conservative | 572 |
| Alan Warner | BNP | 228 |
HEAGE & AMBERGATE1 seat
| Juliette Blake | Conservative | 1,000 ✓ |
| Paul Arnold | Labour | 463 |
Heanor and Loscoe1 seat
| Alan Longdon | Labour | 513 ✓ |
| Paul Snell | BNP | 512 |
| Jade Wiltshire | Conservative | 417 |
Heanor East1 seat
| Callum Roper | BNP | 537 ✓ |
| Linda Edwards-Milsom | Conservative | 482 |
| Kenneth Armstrong | Labour | 454 |
Heanor West1 seat
| Lewis Allesbrook | BNP | 727 ✓ |
| Celia Mary Cox | Labour | 560 |
| Steven Grainger | Conservative | 412 |
| Sally McIntosh | Liberal Democrats | 137 |
Ironville and Riddings1 seat
| Jack Brown | Conservative | 900 ✓ |
| Robert Johnston | Labour | 636 |
| Terence Thorpe | Conservative | 423 ✓ |
| Eileen Hamilton | Labour | 408 |
| Kaith Falconbridge | Liberal Democrats | 123 |
Ripley1 seat
| David Bowley | Conservative | 1,259 ✓ |
| Charles Cutting | Labour | 646 |
| Christopher Bown | Liberal Democrats | 200 |
Ripley & Marehay1 seat · turnout 36.0%
| R. Ashton | Conservative | 827 ✓ |
| L. Cox | Labour | 482 |
| K Cooper | BNP | 369 |
| Horsley Shipley Park | Horsley & | 0 |
SOMERCOTES1 seat
| John Gerard McCabe | Labour | 660 ✓ |
| Sally West | Conservative | 388 |
| John Dudley | BNP | 309 |