Missouri

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2015, 03:29 AM Apr 2015

Ferguson, MO election results

COUNCIL MEMBER FERGUSON WARD 1
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 7 OF 7 COUNTED)
ELLA M. JONES . . . . . . . . . 824 49.76
DOYLE McCLELLAN . . . . . . . . 217 13.10
ADRIENNE J. HAWKINS . . . . . . . 217 13.10
MIKE McGRATH . . . . . . . . . 389 23.49
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 9 .54

COUNCIL MEMBER FERGUSON WARD 2
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 4 OF 4 COUNTED)
BRIAN PATRICK FLETCHER . . . . . . 847 56.77
ROBERT (BOB) HUDGINS . . . . . . 636 42.63
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 9 .60

COUNCIL MEMBER FERGUSON WARD 3
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 6 OF 6 COUNTED)
WESLEY BELL . . . . . . . . . 494 66.94
LEE SMITH . . . . . . . . . . 242 32.79
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 2 .27

DIRECTOR FERGUSON REORGANIZED R-2 SCHOOL DISTRICT
(Vote for ) 2
(WITH 54 OF 54 COUNTED)
BRIAN SCOTT EBERT. . . . . . . . 4,685 30.01
ROGER HINES. . . . . . . . . . 2,726 17.46
DONNA MARIE DAMERON . . . . . . . 1,710 10.95
MICHAEL PERSON. . . . . . . . . 1,145 7.34
COURTNEY MICHELLE GRAVES . . . . . 5,262 33.71
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 82 .53

FERGUSON REORGANIZED R-2 SCHOOL DISTRICT - PROPOSITION I
**BONDS - CAPITAL IMPROV (57.15% NEEDED)**
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 54 OF 54 COUNTED)
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,263 73.25
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,653 26.75

http://electionresults.stlouisco.com/el150407/el45.html

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Ferguson, MO election results (Original Post) Sherman A1 Apr 2015 OP

Ferguson voters make history and increase turnout MADem Apr 2015 #1

unmentioned in the story Sherman A1 Apr 2015 #2

MADem

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1. Ferguson voters make history and increase turnout

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 03:40 AM

Apr 2015

Residents in Ferguson, Mo. Tuesday elected two black city council members, transforming the political body's racial composition after months of protests over racial profiling and police brutality.

One sitting black member of the council was not up for re-election. When the two new African-American council members take their seats it will be the first time that blacks have controlled half of the council, despite the fact that two-thirds of the city's 21,000 residents are black.

Demonstrations gave way to increased civic activism with 29% of eligible voters casting more than 3,700 ballots. That's more than double the 12% of eligible voters that came out for last April's mayoral election.

Since the shooting death last summer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer, activists in the St. Louis suburb have implored people to vote. That message came through Tuesday as voters elected Wesley Bell, who is black, in Ward 3, Ella Jones, who is also black, in Ward 1, and Brian Fletcher, who is white, in Ward 2....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/ferguson-voters-head-to-polls/25401037/

Sherman A1

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2. unmentioned in the story

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 03:44 AM

Apr 2015

are the Ferguson-Florissant School District results which I believe are also of importance and I added them to my OP.

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