The Nation - News from April 5, 1987

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Annette Strauss won more than 40% of the vote against three other millionaires in a bid to become Dallas’ first female mayor but was forced into an April 18 runoff against former county Republican Chairman Fred Meyer in the nonpartisan election. Strauss, sister-in-law of former Democratic National Chairman Robert S. Strauss, had 44,853 votes, or 43.2%, with 273 of 295 precincts reporting. Meyer had 27,106, or 26.1%; former U.S. Rep. Jim Collins had 16,350, or 15.7%, and publisher Jim Buerger, 13,856, or 13.3%. Five other candidates shared less than 2%.