The election saw the Labour Party taking a significant number of seats back from the Conservatives.
[1] The councillors elected in 1971 would serve for less than three years, before the dissolution of the present Council in April 1974.
In what was described as a "night of disaster for the Conservatives" the Labour Party more than recovered the position they had been in Cardiff prior to the 1967 elections.
[2] Labour gained a total of 11 seats, including one in the previous Tory stronghold of Whitchurch.
[3] A number of former Cardiff Labour councillors won their seats back, including Eva Davies, Emyr Currie-Jones, Philip Dunleavy, Harold Bartlett and Dengar Evans.