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Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England, the United Kingdom were held on 7 May 1979. All of the council was up for election and control of the council changed from Conservative control to no overall control.^[1]

Boundary changes since the 1976 local elections reduced the number of seats by 2.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1979^[2]^[3]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %
Conservative	22	0	5	-5	50
Labour	12	4	0	+4	27.3
Liberal	2	0	0	0	4.5
Independent	8	0	1	-1	18.2

Barmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Harold Henry Cartledge	622	73.35
	Labour	Peter Keith Jones	226	26.65
Majority			396	46.70
Turnout			848	81.1
	Independent win (new seat)

Buxton Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dennis Raymond Walter	unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)

Chapel East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Albert Phillips	622	55.59
	Conservative	Cheryl Mary Dawson	337	30.11
	Independent	Desmond Francis Bryan	160	14.30
Majority			285	25.47
Turnout			1119	82.0
	Independent win (new seat)

Hayfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Fred Barnes	854	57.16
	Conservative	Herbert David Mellor	407	27.24
	Labour	David John Wilcox	233	15.60
Majority			447	29.92
Turnout			1494	80.0
	Independent win (new seat)

Ladybower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Albert Bingham	775	82.53
	Labour	James Stanley Byford	164	17.47
Majority			611	65.07
Turnout			939	82.1
	Conservative win (new seat)

Limestone Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Evelyn May Tomlinson	unopposed
	Independent win (new seat)

New Mills North
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Dorothy May Brennand	1574
	Conservative	Dorothy Mary Livesley	1571
	Conservative	John Edward Mone	1545
	Liberal	Graham Martin Doughty	1525
	Labour	Stephen John Herbert Dearden	1152
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Peveril
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles David Lewis	unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)

St John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Brenda Tetlow	934	82.00
	Labour	Joan Wilcox	205	18.00
Majority			729	64.00
Turnout			1139	83.6
	Conservative win (new seat)

Simmondley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Roderick Heath	674	43.07
	Labour	Michael William Slattery	470	30.03
	Liberal	Joyce Ashley	421	26.90
Majority			204	13.04
Turnout			1565	82.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

Tintwistle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ralph Bennett	480	51.67
	Conservative	Clifford Pennington	449	48.33
Majority			31	3.33
Turnout			929	86.0
	Labour win (new seat)

Whaley Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	2193
	Independent	Fredrick Bonsall Woodward	1854
	Conservative	Harold Hastings Littlewood	1601
	Labour	Martin Struan Burch	1203
	Labour	George Kenneth Brown	1147
	Conservative	Bernard George Everett	887
Turnout
	Independent win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

^ "English local elections 2007". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 4 May 2007.
^ Colin Rallings; Michael Thrasher (1 May 2003). Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest. University of Plymouth Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre. ISBN 0948858354.
^ Colin Rallings; Michael Thrasher. "High Peak Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). www.electionscentre.co.uk. The Election Centre, Plymouth University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2020.