Election result
| 1996 Broadland District Council election | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Labour | 7 |  7 | 43.8 | 14 | 21 | 42.9 | 7,861 | 40.7 | +0.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 3 | 1 | 18.8 | 10 | 13 | 26.5 | 3,956 | 20.5 | -6.4 | |
| Conservative | 5 |  9 | 31.3 | 5 | 10 | 20.4 | 6,729 | 34.9 | +7.4 | |
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 4 | 5 | 10.2 | 683 | 3.5 | +1.1 | |
| Green | 0 |  | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 69 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
