# Candidates of the 1901 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1901 Australian federal election. The election was held on 29/30 March 1901.

## House of Representatives

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

### New South Wales

| Electorate | Protectionist candidate | Free Trade candidate | Labour candidate | Other candidates |
| Barrier | | | Josiah Thomas | Benjamin Long (Ind) |
| Bland | | William Lucas | Chris Watson | Patrick Heffernan (Ind Prot) |
| Canobolas | Bernhard Wise | | Thomas Brown | Thomas Dalveen (Ind Prot) William Melville (Ind Prot) |
| Cowper | Francis Clarke | Robert Davidson | | Hugh McKinnon (Ind Prot) |
| Dalley | Reginald Cohen | Bill Wilks | Sydney Law | |
| Darling | Patrick Quinn | Thomas Bertram | William Spence | |
| East Sydney | | George Reid | | John Cleary (Ind Prot) Harry Foran (Ind Prot) James Toomey (Ind) |
| Eden-Monaro | Austin Chapman* William Wood | | | |
| Gwydir | George Cruickshank | Edward Foxall | William Webster | William Buchanan (Ind FT) |
| Hume | Sir William Lyne | William Goddard | | |
| Hunter | Edmund Barton | | | |
| Illawarra | Alexander Hay | George Fuller | | Andrew Lysaght (Ind Prot) |
| Lang | James Edwards | Francis McLean | James Watson | James Mitchell (Ind Prot) |
| Macquarie | William Ferguson | Sydney Smith | | |
| Newcastle | | Owen Gilbert | David Watkins | John Bailey (Ind Lab) |
| New England | William Sawers | Edmund Lonsdale | | George Simpson (Ind) |
| North Sydney | | Dugald Thomson | | Edward Clark (Ind FT) |
| Parkes | Robert Thomson | Bruce Smith | | George Burns (Ind Lab) |
| Parramatta | William Sandford | Joseph Cook | | |
| Richmond | Thomas Ewing | | | Robert Pyers (Ind Prot) |
| Riverina | John Chanter | James Ashton | | |
| Robertson | Jack FitzGerald | Henry Willis | | |
| South Sydney | | George Edwards | James McGowen | Henry Hoyle (Ind Prot) |
| Wentworth | John Gannon | Sir William McMillan | | |
| Werriwa | Thomas Rose | Alfred Conroy | | |
| West Sydney | James Beer | | Billy Hughes | James Hanrahan (Ind Prot) |

### Queensland

| Electorate | Protectionist candidate | Free Trade candidate | Labour candidate | Other candidates |
| Brisbane | Charles Hardie Buzacott Thomas Macdonald-Paterson* | | Daniel Guilfoyle | |
| Capricornia | | | Wallace Nelson | Alexander Paterson (Ind FT) |
| Darling Downs | William Henry Groom* Horace Ransome | | | |
| Herbert | William Brown | | Fred Bamford | |
| Kennedy | | Maurice Barnett | Charles McDonald | |
| Maranoa | | George Bunning | Jim Page | |
| Moreton | Anthony Darvall William Kellett William Ryott Maughan | | | Edward Kretschmer (Ind) Robert Neilson (Ind) James Wilkinson* (Ind Lab) |
| Oxley | Richard Edwards | | Harry Turley | |
| Wide Bay | John Annear | | Andrew Fisher | |
^ There was no Protectionist organisation in Queensland. Elected candidates joined the Protectionists in Parliament. ^ There was no Free Trade organisation in Queensland.

### South Australia

Note that South Australia was constituted as one seven-member division, with each elector casting seven votes.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Labour candidates | Independent candidates |
| Sir Langdon Bonython* Robert Caldwell John Cooke Charles Kingston* John O'Connell George Wyld | Henry Baker Paddy Glynn* Frederick Holder* Alexander Poynton* Vaiben Louis Solomon* Crawford Vaughan Thomas Webb Richard Wood | Lee Batchelor* Thomas Price | George Mitchell |

### Tasmania

Note that Tasmania was constituted as one five-member division, with each elector casting one vote.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Independent candidates |
| Charles Fenton Sir Philip Fysh* King O'Malley* James Whitelaw | Sir Edward Braddon* Norman Cameron* William Hartnoll Frederick Piesse* | David Blanshard |
^ There was no Labour organisation in Tasmania; O'Malley joined the Labour Caucus when Parliament sat.

### Victoria

| Electorate | Protectionist candidate | Free Trade candidate | Labour candidate | Other candidates |
| Balaclava | Sir George Turner | | | |
| Ballaarat | Alfred Deakin | | | Richard Vale (Ind Prot) |
| Bendigo | Sir John Quick | | | |
| Bourke | James Hume Cook | Frederick Hickford | Martin Hannah | James Mirams (Ind Prot) James Rose (Ind Prot) |
| Corangamite | Chester Manifold | | | John Woods (Ind Prot) |
| Corinella | James McCay | Nicholas Fitzgerald | | |
| Corio | Richard Crouch | James Boyd | | Jonas Levien (Ind Prot) Angus McNaughton (Ind Prot) |
| Echuca | James McColl | Max Hirsch | | |
| Flinders | Louis Smith | Arthur Groom | | Alfred Downward (Ind Prot) |
| Gippsland | Allan McLean | | | |
| Grampians | Alfred Rinder | Thomas Skene | | Holford Wettenhall (Ind Prot) |
| Indi | Isaac Isaacs | Thomas Ashworth | | |
| Kooyong | Theodore Fink | William Knox | | John Rogers (Ind Prot) |
| Laanecoorie | Carty Salmon | | | Walter Grose (Ind Prot) |
| Melbourne | Sir Malcolm McEacharn | | William Maloney | |
| Melbourne Ports | Samuel Mauger | | | |
| Mernda | Robert Harper | | | Thomas Hunt (Ind Prot) Sydney Stott (Ind Prot) |
| Moira | Thomas Kennedy | John West | | |
| Northern Melbourne | Robert Barr | | | H. B. Higgins* (Ind Prot) Isaac Selby (Ind Prot) |
| Southern Melbourne | Donald McArthur | Alexander Sutherland | James Ronald | David Gaunson (Ind Prot) |
| Wannon | Louis Horwitz | Samuel Cooke | | Leo Cussen (Ind Prot) |
| Wimmera | Pharez Phillips | William Irvine | | Henry Williams (Ind FT) |
| Yarra | William Wilson | | Frank Tudor | John Gahan (Ind Prot) Patrick O'Connor (Ind Prot) |

### Western Australia

| Electorate | Protectionist candidate | Free Trade candidate | Labour candidate | Other candidates |
| Coolgardie | | John Archibald | Hugh Mahon | |
| Fremantle | | Elias Solomon | Tom O'Beirne | William Adcock (Ind FT) Charles Jones (Ind FT) |
| Kalgoorlie | | John Kirwan | | John Marquis Hopkins (Ind FT) |
| Perth | Michael Cavanagh | | James Fowler | |
| Swan | Sir John Forrest | | | |

## Senate

Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

### New South Wales

Six seats were up for election.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Labour candidates | Socialist Labor candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates |
| Mark Hammond John Kidd Kenneth Mackay Sir William Manning Richard O'Connor* George Waddell | Albert Gould* John Gray Edward Millen* John Neild* Edward Pulsford* James Walker* | Donald Macdonell Samuel Smith | Harry Holland Thomas Melling James Moroney James Morrish John Neill Andrew Thomson | Francis Abigail (Ind FT) Andrew Armstrong (Ind FT) John Blake (Ind) Francis Brown (Ind) Richard Colonna-Close (Ind Prot) John Cook (Ind) Francis Cotton (Ind FT) George Cox (Ind FT) Thomas Edwards (Ind) David Fealy (Ind Prot) William Flynn (Ind) David Gash (Ind) Eden George (Ind Prot) William Gocher (Ind) John Griffin (Ind FT) | Harry Lassetter (Ind FT) Patrick Lynch (Ind Prot) Richard Meagher (Ind Prot) James Moriarty (Ind FT) John Norton (Ind Prot) Denis O'Sullivan (Ind) Walter Quinn (Ind Prot) William Read (Ind Prot) William Richardson (Ind Prot) Sam Rosa (Ind FT) Charles Royle (Ind FT) William Shipway (Ind FT) Edward Terry (Ind FT) Lindsay Thompson (Ind FT) Harrie Wood (Ind Prot) |

### Queensland

Six seats were up for election.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Labour candidates | Independent candidates |
| John Bartholomew Charles Hardie Buzacott Alfred Cowley James Drake* Thomas Glassey* John Hamilton Thomas Murray-Prior Edmund Plant David Seymour Andrew Thynne | Joseph Ahearne John Ferguson* | Anderson Dawson* William Higgs* James Stewart* | John Hoolan |
^ There was no Protectionist organisation in Queensland. Glassey and Drake, when elected, sat with the Protectionists in Parliament. ^ There was no Free Trade organisation in Queensland. Ferguson, when elected, sat with the Free Traders in Parliament.

### South Australia

Six seats were up for election.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Labour candidates |
| Thomas Burgoyne Sir John Downer* Andrew Kirkpatrick Thomas Playford* | Arthur Addison Sir Richard Baker* David Charleston* William Copley Sir Josiah Symon* | Gregor McGregor* James O'Loghlin |

### Tasmania

Six seats were up for election.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Independent candidates |
| Cyril Cameron* John Keating* William Moore David O'Keefe* | Jonathan Best John Clemons* Henry Dobson* James Macfarlane* Henry Murray Robert Patterson | Arthur Morrisby (Ind FT) Alfred Page (Ind FT) Don Urquhart (Ind FT) James Waldron (Ind FT) Joseph Woollnough (Ind FT) |
^ O'Keefe joined the Labour Party when Parliament sat (there was no Labour organisation in Tasmania).

### Victoria

Six seats were up for election. Fraser and Zeal sat as Protectionists once elected.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Labour candidates | Independent candidates |
| Robert Best* John Dow William Kelly James Styles* William Watt | John Duffy William Moule James Purves Robert Reid Sir Frederick Sargood* John Wallace | Stephen Barker John Barrett* Alfred Hampson | Richard Baker (Ind Prot) Simon Fraser* (Ind Prot) Charles Sargeant (Ind Prot) George Wise (Ind Prot) Sir William Zeal* (Ind Prot) |

### Western Australia

Six seats were up for election.
| Protectionist candidates | Free Trade candidates | Labour candidates | Independent candidates |
| Joseph Charles John Phair | Norman Ewing* Edward Harney* Alexander Matheson* Staniforth Smith* Joseph Thomson Louis Wolff | Hugh de Largie* George Pearce* | Julius Bowen (Ind FT) Henry Ellis (Ind FT) Richard Gell (Ind FT) Henry Saunders (Ind FT) Walter Phillips (Ind FT) Horace Stirling (Ind FT) |