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Braidwood - 1898 (Roll: 2,198) Retained by National Federal Nominations: Wednesday, 20 July 1898 Candidate Party Votes Votes % Beale, Charles Gordon Lennox Griffin Free Trade 307 26.93 Chapman, Austin (Re-elected) National Federal 833 73.07 Formal Votes 1,140 Informal Votes 12 1.04 Total Votes / Turnout 1,152 52.41 Source: Year Book of Australia (1899) p.336. SMH 28 July 1898, p.7 has incomplete results but reports a final majority of 453, a figure that does not correspond to the Year Book result.