# 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

* George Greene MLA (Grenfell)
* Leslie Hollis MLA (Goulburn)
* Adrian Knox MLA (Woollahra)

### 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 | Jack 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 | |