2025 St. Louis mayoral election

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2025 St. Louis mayoral election
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Turnout25.76% [1]
  Cara Spencer crop.jpg Tishaura Jones tight crop.jpg
Candidate Cara Spencer Tishaura Jones
Popular vote32,16217,974
Percentage64.15%35.85%
St. Louis, Missouri mayoral election results by ward, 2025 (nonpartisan color scheme).svg
St. Louis, Missouri mayoral election results by precinct, 2025.svg
Spencer:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     90–100%
Jones:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     90–100%
     No votes     Tie
Mayor before election

Tishaura Jones
Democratic

Elected Mayor

Cara Spencer
Democratic

The 2025 St. Louis mayoral election was held on April 8, 2025, to elect the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri. The non-partisan election used approval voting, with the top-two candidates in the March 4 primary advancing to the April general election. In a rematch of the 2021 election, first-term incumbent mayor Tishaura Jones was defeated by alderwoman Cara Spencer by a wide margin.

Contents

Candidates

Candidates who advanced to the general election

CandidateExperienceAnnouncedRef
Tishaura Jones tight crop.jpg
Tishaura Jones 		Incumbent mayor (2021–present)
Treasurer of St. Louis (2013–2021)
State representative for the 63rd district (2009–2013)		May 16, 2024
(Website)		 [2]
Cara Spencer crop.jpg
Cara Spencer 		Alder for the 8th ward [a] (2015–present)
Candidate for mayor in 2021 		May 23, 2024
(Website)		 [3]

Candidates eliminated in the primary

CandidateExperienceAnnouncedRef
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Michael Butler 		St. Louis Recorder of Deeds (2019–present)
Chair of the Missouri Democratic Party (2020–2023)
State representative for the 79th district (2013–2019)		August 2, 2024
(Website)		 [4]
Mayoral candidate Andrew Jones in 2025 (cropped).jpg
Andrew Jones		Utility executive
Perennial candidate		(Website) [5]

Primary election

Endorsements

Tishaura Jones
Local officials
Organizations
Cara Spencer
Individuals
Organizations
Party chapters
  • St. Louis Democratic Party [11]

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Michael
Butler		Andrew
Jones		Tishaura
Jones		Cara
Spencer		Undecided
Remington Research (R) [12] [A] February 26–27, 2025416 (LV)± 4.9%24%13%34%51%—

Results

Approval vote for each candidate by ward St. Louis mayoral unified primary results by candidate, 2025.svg
Approval vote for each candidate by ward

Because the primary election was conducted using approval voting (and voters had the opportunity to mark their approval of more than one candidate), the percentages add up to more than 100 percent; they reflect what percentage of voters voted for that candidate.

2025 St. Louis mayoral primary [13]
CandidateVotes %
Cara Spencer 23,82668.11%
Tishaura Jones (incumbent)11,61233.19%
Michael Butler 8,70124.87%
Andrew Jones4,76913.63%
Total votes34,982

General election

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Tishaura
Jones		Cara
Spencer		Undecided
Remington Research (R) [14] [A] March 25–27, 2025622 (LV)± 4.0%31%55%14%

Results

2025 St. Louis mayoral general election [15]
CandidateVotes %
Cara Spencer 32,16264.15%
Tishaura Jones (incumbent)17,97435.85%
Total votes50,137 [b] 100.00%

Notes

  1. ↑ Represented the 20th ward prior to the 2023 redistricting
  2. ↑ One vote went to write-in candidate Jerome Bauer
Partisan clients
  1. 1 2 Poll conducted for the local nonpartisan tipsheet Missouri Scout

References

  1. ↑ "Cumulative Results Report" (PDF). City of St. Louis. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
  2. ↑ First Alert 4 Staff (May 16, 2024). "St. Louis Mayor Tishuara Jones officially running for re-election". First Alert 4 .{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Somers, Jennifer (May 23, 2024). "Alderwoman Cara Spencer announces campaign for St. Louis mayor". KSDK]. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  4. ↑ First Alert 4 Staff (August 2, 2024). "Michael Butler announces St. Louis City mayoral campaign". First Alert 4 . Retrieved February 3, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Rosenbaum, Jason (January 3, 2025). "Jones to face off against three challengers for St. Louis mayoral reelection bid". KWMU . Retrieved January 7, 2025.
  6. ↑ Huguelet, Austin (December 6, 2024). "St. Louis board president Megan Green endorses Mayor Tishaura O. Jones". St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  7. ↑ "EMILYs List Endorses Mayor Tishaura Jones for Reelection as Mayor of St. Louis". EMILYs List (Press release). February 11, 2025. Retrieved February 12, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Endorses Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chair Tishaura Jones for Re-election". Everytown for Gun Safety (Press release). February 25, 2025. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
  9. 1 2 "C.O.P.E. Endorsements". Missouri AFL-CIO (Press release). February 4, 2025. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  10. ↑ Kukuljan, Steph (January 28, 2025). "St. Louis mayoral race challenger nets $100,000 from Clayco exec". St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Retrieved January 29, 2025.
  11. ↑ Maxwell, Mark; Barczewski, Laura (March 8, 2025). "St. Louis Democratic Party endorses Cara Spencer for mayor in 'unprecedented' vote against incumbent mayor". KSDK .
  12. ↑ "Poll shows Cara Spencer, Tishaura Jones as No. 1 and 2 choices in St. Louis mayor's race". St. Louis Business Journal . March 1, 2025. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
  13. ↑ "March 4, 2025 Primary Election Final Official Results" (PDF). March 11, 2025. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
  14. ↑ Kirn, Jacob (March 29, 2025). "Poll has Cara Spencer with big lead over Tishaura Jones in St. Louis mayor's race". St. Louis Business Journal . Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  15. ↑ "April 8, 2025 General Election Final Official Results" (PDF). April 14, 2025. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
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