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Newtown-Erskine - 1898 (Roll: 2,352)
Retained by Free Trade
Nominations: Thursday, 21 July 1898
Candidate Party Votes Votes %
Molesworth, Edmund William (Re-elected) Free Trade 860 61.34
Morgan, Harold Thomas National Federal 542 38.66
Formal Votes 1,402
Informal Votes 3 0.21
Total Votes / Turnout 1,405 59.74
Source: SMH 28 July 1898, p.7, while Year Book of Australia (1899) reports Molesworth 859 votes and Morgan 543.