St. Louis Mayoral Election 2021

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones took her oath of office on Tuesday, promising to transform a city that's long struggled with a vexing racial divide and economic decline.

Less than 48 hours after her victory in Tuesday’s race and with only 12 days until she’ll be sworn into office, St. Louis Mayor-elect Tishaura Jones said Thursday on "St. Louis on the Air" that she’s ready to move fast on a number of fronts — including the critical issues facing the City Justice Center.

Three of the four candidates who received the backing of an initiative called Flip The Board won their aldermanic races in St. Louis, giving progressive-minded aldermen a working if fragile majority at City Hall.

St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones beat Alderwoman Cara Spencer, D-20th Ward, on Tuesday to become the city’s first Black woman mayor.

There are more than 3,400 St. Louisans who cannot vote Tuesday in the city’s mayoral election because they have not yet completed their probation or parole term. Missouri activists and lawmakers are pushing to restore voting rights more quickly to formerly incarcerated people so they can participate in local and state elections.

St. Louis voters will also decide races for mayor, aldermanic elections in 16 of the city’s 28 wards, whether again to retain the earnings tax and six ballot issues addressing the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District borrowing $500 million to improve wastewater service and changes to the utility’s charter. St. Louis County voters will also weigh in on MSD.

Alderwoman Cara Spencer, D-20th Ward, started her political career to keep a neighborhood pool open.

Here's what you need to know to vote absentee or in person in the April 6 St. Louis mayoral election between Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer.

If she is elected Tuesday, Treasurer Tishaura Jones will be the first Black woman to be mayor in St. Louis' history.

The debate between Alderwoman Cara Spencer and Treasurer Tishaura Jones, one week before the mayoral election, featured several pointed exchanges.