| Pos | Band | Conductor | Dr | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Dyke Mills | Major Peter Parkes | 6 | 190 |
| 2 | Brighouse & Rastrick | Derek Broadbent | 14 | 188 |
| 3 | Whitburn | Geoffrey Whitham | 3 | 187 |
| 4 | Yorkshire Imperial Metals | John Pryce-Jones | 10 | 186 |
| 5 | Sun Life | Christopher Aidey | 9 | 185 |
| 6 | Besses o' th' Barn | Roy Newsome | 20 | 183 |
| 7= | GUS | Keith Wilkinson | 21 | 181 |
| 7= | Loughborough | Charles Fisher | 11 | 181 |
| 9 | Solent Concert Brass | Wesley Garner | 17 | 180 |
| 10= | Grimethorpe Colliery | Ray Farr | 5 | 177 |
| 10= | Leyland Vehicles | Richard Evans | 19 | 177 |
| 12 | Lewis Merthyr | Nigel Seaman | 11 | 176 |
| 13= | Cory | Denzil Stephens | 16 | 175 |
| 13= | Newtongrange & Bilston Colliery | Nigel Boddice | 1 | 175 |
| 15 | Tredegar | Albert Meek | 13 | 174 |
| 16 | Ever Ready | Howard Snell | 4 | 173 |
| 17 | Point of Ayr Colliery | Gwyn Jones | 8 | 172 |
| 18 | Albourne | Don Keene | 2 | 171 |
| 19 | Hendon | Don Morrison | 12 | 170 |
| 20 | Morris Motors | Clifford Edmunds | 18 | 169 |
| 21 | Dalmellington | Archie Hutchinson | 7 | 168 |
| 22 | Northumbria Police | John Foxcroft | 22 | 165 |
Prizes:
First: £2000
Second: £1000
Third: £500
Fourth: £250
The winning conductor received a presentation score of the test piece.
Due to the change in the way the Regional contests were to be run from 1982, both Black Dyke Mills and Brighouse and Rastrick were given byes to the 1982 final. From 1982 the winners and runners up would gain automatic qualification.
The event was sponsored by the National Westminster Bank
