Candidates of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election

This is a list of candidates for the 1898 New South Wales colonial election. The election was held on 27 July 1898.

The Protectionist Party contested this election under the name "National Federal Party", reflecting their focus on the issue of Federation.

Retiring members

National Federal

Michael Phillips MLA (Cowra)

Free Trade

Labor

Thomas Davis MLA (Sydney-Pyrmont)
George Smailes MLA (Granville)

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Electorate	Held by	National Federal candidate	Free Trade candidate	Labor candidate	Other candidates

Albury	Free Trade	Thomas Griffith	Richard Ball
Alma	Labor	William Harding		Josiah Thomas	Charles Counsell (Ind)
Annandale	Free Trade	Reginald Cohen	William Mahony
Argyle	National Federal	Thomas Rose	Francis Isaac
Armidale	Free Trade	Charles Wilson	Edmund Lonsdale
Ashburnham	National Federal	Joseph Reymond	Albert Gardiner
Ashfield	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise	Thomas Bavister
Ballina	National Federal	John Perry			Thomas Temperley (Ind Fed)
Balmain North	Free Trade	Leonard Green	Bill Wilks		Alexander Milne (Ind Fed)
Balmain South	Labor	William Traill		Sydney Law	Gilbert Murdoch (Ind Fed) Charles Taylor (Ind)
Barwon	National Federal	William Willis		Donald Macdonell
Bathurst	Free Trade	Francis Suttor	Sydney Smith
Bega	National Federal	Henry Clarke			William Boot (Ind Fed) William Braine (Ind Fed)
Bingara	Free Trade	William McIntyre	Samuel Moore
Boorowa	National Federal	Kenneth Mackay		James Toomey
Botany	Labor	Charles Swinbourne		John Dacey	James Macfadyen (Ind Fed) William Stephen (Ind FT) William Wall (Ind Fed)
Bourke	Free Trade	William Davis	Edward Millen
Bowral	Free Trade	F. N. Yarwood	William McCourt
Braidwood	National Federal	Austin Chapman	Charles Beale
Broken Hill	Labor	Alexander Hendry		John Cann
Burwood	Free Trade	William McMillan			William Archer* (Ind FT) James Eve (Ind FT)
Camden	Free Trade	John Kidd	Charles Bull		Henry Willis (Ind)
Canterbury	Free Trade	Thomas Bavin	Varney Parkes		George Rundle (Ind Fed)
Clarence	National Federal	John McFarlane
Cobar	National Federal	Michael O'Halloran		William Spence	Richard Machattie (Ind Fed) Samuel Wood (Ind)
Condoublin	Labor	Andrew Stewart		Thomas Brown
Coonamble	Labor	William Alison		Hugh Macdonald
Cowra	National Federal	Thomas Waddell		Hector Lamond
Darlington	National Federal	William Schey	Thomas Clarke		William Hall (Ind FT) James Jones (Ind) Michael Keating (Ind Fed)
Deniliquin	National Federal	John Chanter			George Berryman (Ind)
Dubbo	Free Trade	James Morgan	Simeon Phillips
Durham	National Federal	Herbert Brown			Walter Bennett (Ind Fed)
East Maitland	Free Trade	Samuel Clift	James Brunker
Eden-Bombala	National Federal	William Wood			Henry Dawson (Ind Fed) Samuel Woods (Ind Fed)
Glebe	Free Trade	Bruce Smith	James Hogue
Glen Innes	National Federal	Francis Wright			Thomas Chandler (Ind) John Wetherspoon (Ind)
Gloucester	National Federal	Richard Price	Frederick Hooke
Goulburn	Free Trade	Arthur Barrett	James Ashton
Grafton	National Federal	John See			Frederick McGuren (Ind Fed)
Granville	Labor	William Windsor	John Nobbs	Charles Dyer
Grenfell	Free Trade	Andrew Kelly		William Holman
Gundagai	National Federal	John Barnes		William Matchett	John Miller (Ind Fed) Waldo Sibthorpe (Ind Fed)
Gunnedah	National Federal	Thomas Goodwin	John Kirkpatrick		William Case (Ind Fed)
Hartley	Free Trade	John Tabrett	Joseph Cook
Hastings and Macleay	National Federal	Francis Clarke
Hawkesbury	Free Trade	John Paine	William Morgan		William Dean (Ind Fed) Brinsley Hall (Ind Fed)
Hay	Free Trade	James Newton	Frank Byrne		Allen Lakeman (Ind Fed)
Hume	National Federal	William Lyne	William Wiesner
Illawarra	Free Trade	Thomas Kennedy	Archibald Campbell
Inverell	National Federal	George Cruickshank			Thomas Jones (Ind)
Kahibah	Labor	Oswald Steel		Alfred Edden	William Richardson (Ind Fed) William Williams (Ind)
Kiama	National Federal	Alexander Campbell	George Fuller
Lachlan	National Federal	James Carroll			C. N. Broome (Ind FT) Alexander Cameron (Ind Fed)
Leichhardt	Free Trade	Richard Colonna-Close	John Hawthorne	George Clark
Lismore	National Federal	Thomas Ewing			James Walker (Ind Fed)
Macquarie	National Federal	William Hurley	Robert Thompson		Allen Carmichael (Ind FT) Frank Foster (Ind) William Paul (Ind FT) David Todd (Ind)
Manning	Free Trade	David Cowan	James Young
Marrickville	Free Trade	David Chenhall	Francis McLean		William Clarke (Ind Fed) Elliot Johnson (Ind FT) William Webster (Ind)
Molong	National Federal	Andrew Ross	Harrington McCulloch		William Shield (Ind Fed)
Monaro	National Federal	Gus Miller			Hugh MacDonnell Ind) Granville Ryrie (Ind FT)
Moree	National Federal	Thomas Hassall	Henry Joseph
Moruya	Free Trade	Albert Chapman	William Millard		John Brogan (Ind)
Mudgee	Free Trade	Edwin Richards	Robert Jones
Murray	National Federal	James Hayes
Murrumbidgee	National Federal	Thomas Fitzpatrick		Arthur Rae
Narrabri	Labor	George Dale		Hugh Ross	William Borthwick (Ind Fed)
Nepean	National Federal	Thomas Smith	Samuel Lees		Alfred Reid (Ind FT)
Newcastle East	Free Trade	Jefferson Hester	William Dick		Robert Huntly (Ind)
Newcastle West	Labor	James Ellis		James Thomson
Newtown-Camperdown	Free Trade	James Abigail	Francis Cotton	Edward Riley	Mikael Dunn (Ind) Thomas Evans (Ind Fed) James Smith (Ind Fed) George Spark (Ind Fed)
Newtown-Erskine	Free Trade	Harold Morgan	Edmund Molesworth
Newtown-St Peters	Free Trade	George Edwards	William Rigg		Ernest Dent (Ind Fed) James Mitchell (Ind Fed) William Sherley (Ind) Hugh St George (Ind Fed)
Northumberland	Free Trade	Richard Stevenson	Henry Wheeler
Orange	Free Trade	James Dalton	Harry Newman
Paddington	Free Trade	Thomas West	John Neild		Arthur Fletcher (Ind FT)
Parramatta	Free Trade	Edwin Brown	Dowell O'Reilly		William Ferris* (Ind Fed) Joseph Withers (Ind Fed)
Petersham	Free Trade	John Cohen	Llewellyn Jones		Percy Hordern (Ind FT)
Queanbeyan	National Federal	Edward O'Sullivan	Alfred Allen		John Harper (Ind) Percy Hodgkinson (Ind)
Quirindi	National Federal	William Clapin		John Perry	Robert Levien (Ind)
Raleigh	Independent	Patrick Hogan			John McLaughlin (Ind)
Randwick	Free Trade	George Raffan	David Storey
Redfern	Labor	William Cameron		James McGowen	Joseph Butterfield (Ind Fed) William Hunter (Ind)
Richmond	National Federal	Robert Pyers			John Willard (Ind FT)
Robertson	National Federal	Robert Fitzgerald	Thomas Houghton
Ryde	Free Trade		Frank Farnell		Edward Foxall (Ind FT) Edward Terry* (Ind Fed)
Rylstone	Free Trade	John FitzGerald	John Fitzpatrick
St George	Free Trade	George Waddell	Joseph Carruthers		Francis Brown (Ind)
St Leonards	Free Trade	Fountain Winter	Edward Clark		Andrew Eaton (Ind Fed) Robert Moodie (Ind Fed)
Sherbrooke	Free Trade	Broughton O'Conor	Jacob Garrard		James Purser (Ind)
Shoalhaven	Independent	Philip Morton			David Davis (Ind Fed)
Singleton	Free Trade	Charles Dight	Albert Gould
Sturt	Labor	Thomas Walker		William Ferguson	Alexander Hendry (Ind)
Sydney-Belmore	Free Trade	Henry Hoyle	James Graham		Joseph Carlos (Ind Fed) Harry Foran (Ind)
Sydney-Bligh	Free Trade	Patrick Quinn	James Harvey		William McNamara (Ind)
Sydney-Cook	Free Trade	George Lewis	Samuel Whiddon		Suleman Amein (Ind) Daniel Healey (Ind)
Sydney-Denison	Free Trade	William Henson	Matthew Harris		Alexander Hutchison (Ind) Thomas O'Reilly (Ind)
Sydney-Fitzroy	Independent	John Norton	Henry Chapman		Patrick Dorahy (Ind Fed) Daniel Levy (Ind FT) Percy Tighe (Ind Fed)
Sydney-Flinders	National Federal	Arthur Nelson	John Dobbie	Robert Cropley	Ernest Gardner (Ind Fed) William Gocher (Ind)
Sydney-Gipps	Labor	Wilfred Spruson		George Black	Thomas Kohen (Ind Lab)
Sydney-King	Free Trade	Edmund Barton	George Reid		Robert Reid (Ind)
Sydney-Lang	Labor	Joseph Chuck		Billy Hughes	David Fealy (Ind Fed) John Strachan (Ind)
Sydney-Phillip	National Federal	Henry Copeland	Robert Hollis		Ralph Hodgson (Ind FT)
Sydney-Pyrmont	Labor	Daniel O'Connor		Samuel Smith	John Carter (Ind) Frederick Marshall (Ind FT)
Tamworth	Free Trade	William Sawers	Albert Piddington
Tenterfield	Free Trade	John Reid	Charles Lee
Tumut	National Federal	Travers Jones		Robert Joyce	Robert Donaldson* (Ind) John Keenan (Ind Fed) Daniel O'Brien (Ind Fed)
Tweed	National Federal	Joseph Kelly			William Baker (Ind FT) Richard Meagher* (Ind)
Uralla-Walcha	Free Trade	William Piddington	Cornelius Danahey		Robert Brown (Ind Fed)
Wagga Wagga	National Federal	James Gormly			John Norman (Ind)
Wallsend	Labor	William Fletcher		David Watkins
Waratah	Labor	John Gilbert		Arthur Griffith
Warringah	Free Trade	Dugald Thomson	Tom Rolin
Waterloo	Free Trade	William Martin	George Anderson	Frederick Flowers	Henry Maynard (Ind) Edward Sweeney (Ind)
Waverley	Free Trade	James Macarthur-Onslow	Thomas Jessep		William Blunt (Ind Fed)
Wellington	Free Trade	William Galloway	John Haynes
Wentworth	National Federal	Sir Joseph Abbott		Robert Scobie
West Macquarie	National Federal	Paddy Crick	John Hurley		Edward Goldsby (Ind Fed)
West Maitland	Free Trade	Walter Edmunds	John Gillies
Wickham	Free Trade	Eden George	John Fegan	Frank Butler
Wilcannia	Labor	Edmond O'Donnell		Richard Sleath
Willoughby	Free Trade	Joseph Cullen	George Howarth		William Brown (Ind) Herbert McIntosh (Ind) John Roberts (Ind) William Stoddart (Ind)
Woollahra	Free Trade	William Manning	John Garland		William Latimer (Ind FT)
Woronora	Independent	Albion Croft	John Nicholson
Yass	Free Trade	Bernard Grogan	William Affleck		George Harrison (Ind Fed)
Young	Labor	Richard O'Connor		Chris Watson

References

Green, Antony. "1898 election candidate index". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. New South Wales Parliament.

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