The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1985
Democrat Jim Chapman barely won a congressional seat his party has held for 114 years in the largely rural northeast part of Texas. His opponent, Republican convert Edd Hargett, claimed that he had “made history” for the GOP with his close finish. Chapman received 52,670 votes, or 50.9%, to Hargett’s 50,737 votes, or 49.1%. National and state GOP leaders had viewed the race as a test to determine true Republican strength in rural Texas.
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