Labour: 33
Liberal Democrat: 26
Conservative: 1
Electorate: 157,369
Overall percentage poll: 32.7% (1998: 31%)
* Denotes standing Councillor
| Alexandra (30%) 31.8% | ||
|---|---|---|
| Riaz Ahmad | Lab | 1171 |
| Robert Anderson | Ind | 333 |
| Angela Mary Farrell | Lib Dem | 629 |
| Susannah Dawn Rooney | Green | 95 |
| Chadderton Central (26%) 25.9% | ||
| Edward Bennett | Con | 639 |
| *Tony Brownridge | Lab | 906 |
| Joyce Mercer | Lib Dem | 618 |
| Chadderton North (32%) 32.1% | ||
| John Joseph Curran | Con | 1087 |
| Steven Farrimond | Lib Dem | 451 |
| *Leonard Quinn | Lab | 1032 |
| Chadderton South (25%) 22.5% | ||
| Marie Curran | Con | 444 |
| *David Alan Heyes | Lab | 761 |
| Philip Norman Renold | Lib Dem | 450 |
| Coldhurst (38.1%) 42.7% | ||
| *Kevin Leyden | Lab | 1337 |
| Mohib Uddin | Lib Dem | 1571 |
| Keith Whitehead | Con | 421 |
| Crompton (31.9%) 30% | ||
| Philomena Dillon | Lib Dem | 1589 |
| David William Dunning | Con | 615 |
| Joseph Fitzpatrick | Lab | 365 |
| Failsworth East (22.1%) 38.6% | ||
| *John Bernard Battye | Lab | 730 |
| Graham Drinkwater | Con | 102 |
| Charles Leslie Glover | Lib Dem | 2335 |
| Failsworth West (22.7%) 22.5% | ||
| *John Johnson | Lab | 1034 |
| David Stanton | Lib Dem | 631 |
| Hollinwood (37.3%) 36% | ||
| Stephen Barrow | Lib Dem | 1367 |
| William Lockett | BNP | 229 |
| Kevin Moores | Green | 57 |
| *Ian Affleck Thompson | Lab | 704 |
| Lees (36%) 33.8% | ||
| Bernard Francis Fletcher | Lab | 837 |
| William Lee | Con | 278 |
| *Valerie Sedgwick | Lib Dem | 1346 |
| Royton North (29.2%) 40.2% | ||
| Karen Evans | Lib Dem | 2226 |
| Barbara Mary Jackson | Con | 358 |
| *Tony Larkin | Lab | 760 |
| Royton South (35.4%) 38.5% | ||
| Joseph Alexander Farquhar | Con | 634 |
| *Philip James Harrison | Lab & Co-op | 1164 |
| Dolores Phelan | Lib Dem | 1280 |
| Saddleworth East (43%) 41.4% | ||
| Harold Neild | Lab | 588 |
| *Brian John Mather | Lib Dem | 2759 |
| Richard Esmond Postle | Con | 944 |
| Saddleworth West (34.6%) 36.5% | ||
| Pam Byrne | Con | 742 |
| Jack Schofield | Lab | 602 |
| *Christine Wheeler | Lib Dem | 1904 |
| Shaw (28.1%) 26.6% | ||
| David James Bentley | Con | 388 |
| *Rod Blyth | Lib Dem | 1413 |
| Gertrude Rita Hewitt | Lab | 323 |
| St James (30.5%) 24.5% | ||
| Norman Bennett | Lab & Co-op | 299 |
| *Roger Stephen Hindle | Lib Dem | 1100 |
| Eileen Mary Hulme | Con | 123 |
| St Mary’s (45.8%) 44.2% | ||
| David Allen Atherton | Con | 279 |
| Mohammed Masud | Lab | 1607 |
| Bronwyn Thackery | Lib Dem | 1327 |
| St Paul’s (36.4%) 33.6% | ||
| *John Raymond Crowther | Lab | 881 |
| John Hudson | Con | 820 |
| John Francis McCann | Lib Dem | 681 |
| John David Roney | Green | 199 |
| Waterhead (30.1%) 29.2% | ||
| Christopher Jones | Lab | 472 |
| *Kay Knox | Lib Dem | 2015 |
| Kenneth Middleton | Con | 211 |
| Werneth (44.3%) 44.8% | ||
| Shaob Akhtar | Lab | 1618 |
| Peter Robbie | Green | 82 |
| Kenneth Stocks | Lib Dem | 1385 |
| Raymond Walmsley | Con | 213 |