Notes: Waddell had been the MP for Cobar. Sitting MP M T Phillips did not re-contest.
Source: Cowra Free Press, 4 August 1898, p.2 col.4 including booths. Same figures used in Year Book of Australia (1899), and both figures match the total of votes published in the Statistical Regiser. Result in SMH 29 July 1898, p.6 col.1, noted as 'complete' in col.4, is slightly different with Lamond on 582 and Waddell 831.