The results did enable Labour to take back control of the Inner London Education Authority and were one of the factors used by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in deciding to call a general election soon after.

The election is also significant as it was at a meeting in support of the Conservative candidates in Lambeth that John Major met Norma Johnson, who became his wife.

1 These parties were created by a group of students standing in Haringey, who declared that they intended to make a mockery of the election.

Alfred Frederick Joseph Chorley (Labour) was elected by the council on 4 May 1971, to serve until 1976.

Gordon William Herbert Taylor (Conservative) was elected by the council on 3 October 1972, to serve until 1976.