Greene County

The only contested county race. Stein has held the office since winning it in 1994.

Presiding Commissioner (Bob Dixon), Circuit Clerk (Bryan Feemster), County Clerk (Shane Schoeller), Recorder of Deeds (Cheryl Dawson-Spaulding), Prosecuting Attorney (Dan Patterson), Collector of Revenue (Allen Icet) and Sheriff, a two-year term (Jason B. Johnson, endorsed by the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police), all Republicans.

Yes or no on keeping Court of Appeals Judge Matthew P. Hamner (Southern District); 31st Circuit Judge Nathan Taylor (Division 7); and Associate Circuit Judges Philip M. Fuhrman (Division 21) and Margaret Palmietto (Division 22). Supreme Court Judge Paul C. Wilson is covered with the statewide races. We haven't profiled judges yet.

Fitzpatrick has done the job straight, including standing up to the attorney general in 2023, but he took Missouri Right to Life's endorsement. Wilson has no such ties.

We describe what each measure does and don't make recommendations.

• Amendment 3, abortion: Put on the ballot by the Republican-led Legislature. Repeals the abortion-rights amendment voters passed in 2024, which protects abortion up to fetal viability. In its place it would allow abortion only for medical emergencies, fetal anomalies, and rape or incest before 12 weeks; let the Legislature regulate abortion; require parental consent for minors; limit public funding of abortion; and ban gender transition surgery, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors, which a 2023 state law already bars. A yes vote makes those changes; a no vote keeps the 2024 amendment.
• Amendment 6, voter-approved laws: A citizen initiative from Respect Missouri Voters, put on the ballot by the Missouri Supreme Court after Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected it. Makes initiative and referendum a fundamental right and bars the Legislature from changing or repealing a law voters passed unless 80% of each chamber agrees, and then the change goes back to voters. It also lets courts rewrite ballot summaries and keeps today's signature and majority-vote rules. Backers point to lawmakers' repeal of the paid sick leave voters approved in 2024. A yes vote adds these limits; a no vote leaves the constitution as it is.
• Amendment 7, Show-Me Prosperity Fund: Put on the ballot by the Legislature. Creates a state endowment meant to earn enough someday to replace state taxes. It starts with no money; the Legislature would decide how to fill it. Nothing could be spent until the state treasurer certifies the earnings can replace state taxes, and then those taxes would end and could not come back unless the fund fails. The sponsor's goal is ending most state taxes in about 100 years; the Missouri Budget Project says it risks taking money from state services.
• Amendment 8, sheriffs: Put on the ballot by the Legislature. Writes into the constitution that every county elects a sheriff to a four-year term, which state law already requires, along with sheriffs' duties, and says a sheriff can be removed only by a quo warranto case brought by the attorney general. The Missouri Sheriffs Association and Missouri Sheriffs United worked on it; Democratic Rep. Mark Boyko says it could keep a sheriff in office for months or years even after a felony conviction. St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County are exempt.
• Proposition A, congressional map: A referendum, forced by more than 300,000 signatures from People Not Politicians, on the U.S. House map the Legislature passed in 2025 after President Trump demanded Republicans flip the Kansas City district held by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver. A yes vote approves the 2025 map for future elections; a no vote keeps the 2022 map. Under a Missouri Supreme Court order, this November's House races use the 2022 map either way.
• Supreme Court: Judge Paul C. Wilson, on the court since 2012, is up for a yes-or-no retention vote. Court of Appeals judges appear only on ballots in their own district. We haven't profiled judges yet.

Springfield. Open seat: Republican Lincoln Hough is term-limited. Both major candidates are sitting state representatives.

Rural Greene County, plus Webster, Dade and Barton counties. Open seat: Rook beat Sen. Curtis Trent in the August primary.

West Springfield and Republic.

North-central Springfield.

Open seat: Stinnett is running for state Senate.

Northeast Springfield. Open seat: Fogle is running for state Senate.

Amends the city charter so the city manager can hand charter duties, and the power to hire and fire employees, to assistant city managers and department directors, and so directors can hand their charter duties to staff in their departments. Ballot language.

Replaces the three-step process for adopting city merit (civil service) rules with a two-step process that takes the personnel board out of it, and lets the human resources director approve job application forms instead of the board. Ballot language.

Lets the City Council set up city purchasing rules by ordinance, including dollar thresholds and types of purchases, makes the city manager the default signer for purchases, and applies the charter's competitive bidding requirement to more kinds of purchasing. Ballot language.

Replaces gendered pronouns and references in the city charter with gender-neutral wording. Ballot language.