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Elections to Sale Council were held on Thursday, 9 May 1968. One third of the councillors were up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a three-year term of office. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council. [1] [2]
| Party | Votes | Seats | Full Council | |||||||
| Conservative Party | 10,132 (55.1%) |  2.9 | 9 (100.0%) | 9 / 9 |  3 | 24 (75.0%) | 24 / 32 | |||
| Liberal Party | 3,983 (21.7%) | 7.1 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 9 |  | 5 (15.6%) | 5 / 32 | |||
| Labour Party | 3,529 (19.2%) | 3.0 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 9 | 3 | 3 (9.4%) | 3 / 32 | |||
| Independent | 530 (2.9%) | 1.4 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 9 | | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 32 | |||
| Communist Party | 212 (1.2%) | 0.4 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 9 | | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 32 | |||
| 3 | 5 | 24 |
| 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 21 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | J. G. Blakeway | 1,158 | 64.7 | -0.3 | |
| Liberal | W. J. Golding | 633 | 35.3 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 525 | 29.4 | -0.6 | ||
| Turnout | 1,791 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | V. S. Webb* | 877 | 60.4 | +6.0 | |
| Liberal | J. B. Sullivan | 575 | 39.6 | +23.9 | |
| Majority | 302 | 20.8 | -3.7 | ||
| Turnout | 1,452 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | F. S. Laughton* | 1,248 | 58.6 | -10.3 | |
| Liberal | A. Ashcroft | 880 | 41.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 368 | 17.2 | -20.6 | ||
| Turnout | 2,128 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | K. Orton* | 1,325 | 68.2 | +9.4 | |
| Liberal | E. H. Faulkner | 619 | 31.8 | -9.4 | |
| Majority | 706 | 36.4 | +18.8 | ||
| Turnout | 1,944 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | P. A. G. Morgan Evans | 1,730 | 54.7 | -3.8 | |
| Labour | W. Munro | 1,432 | 45.3 | +3.8 | |
| Majority | 298 | 9.4 | -7.6 | ||
| Turnout | 3,162 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | J. Pollard* | 1,160 | 68.6 | -9.3 | |
| Independent | M. Brown | 530 | 31.4 | +20.2 | |
| Majority | 630 | 37.2 | -29.5 | ||
| Turnout | 1,690 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | H. Rigby | 707 | 56.3 | +1.6 | |
| Labour | T. A. Winnington* | 549 | 43.7 | -1.6 | |
| Majority | 158 | 12.6 | +3.3 | ||
| Turnout | 1,256 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | A. E. Thompson | 981 | 19.8 | ||
| Conservative | M. A. Hood | 946 | 19.1 | ||
| Labour | G. Ewing* | 795 | 16.0 | ||
| Labour | A. Z. Keller | 753 | 15.2 | ||
| Liberal | V. A. M. Flynn | 638 | 12.9 | ||
| Liberal | A. Roberts | 638 | 12.9 | ||
| Communist | A. Burrage | 118 | 2.4 | ||
| Communist | B. Panter | 94 | 1.9 | ||
| Majority | 151 | 3.1 | |||
| Turnout | 4,963 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
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