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The 2021 St. Louis mayoral election occurred in two stages, with a unified primary on March 2, 2021, and a two-candidate general election on April 6, 2021. [1] The election was the first in the nation to use approval voting for a primary. [2]
The mayor of St. Louis is the chief executive officer of St. Louis's city government. The mayor has a duty to enforce city ordinances and the power to either approve or veto city ordinances passed by the Board of Aldermen. [2] The current mayor is Tishaura Jones, who took office on April 20, 2021.
Jones was elected as Mayor of St. Louis in 2021, after losing in 2017. Her first mayoral race (2017 St. Louis mayoral election), she lost a bid to become Mayor of St. Louis after being narrowly defeated in the city's Democratic primary by moderate [49] Lyda Krewson. On November 4, 2020, after being elected treasurer for a third term, Jones ...
St. Louis elected its first Black female mayor on Tuesday. Tishaura Jones will lead a city beset by violent crime. Jones has pledged to bring in more social workers plus mental health and ...
The 2025 St. Louis mayoral election is scheduled to be held on April 8, 2025, to elect the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri.The election will be non-partisan and will use a unified primary (known as "approval voting" in local election literature), with the top-two candidates in the March 4 primary advancing to the general election.
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All 14 members of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen and the President of the Board of Aldermen were elected. These were the first elections held after Proposition R (2012) came into effect, reducing the number of alderpersons from 28 to 14. Numerous incumbent alderpersons ran in the newly drawn 14 wards.
Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr. (born October 30, 1946, in St. Louis) was the 42nd mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, serving three terms from 1981 to 1993.At the time of his first election, he was one of the city's youngest mayors.