St. Louis County

Open seat. County Executive Sam Page, indicted in 2025, did not run. Zimmerman won the August 4 Democratic primary with 46% over state Sens. Brian Williams and Angela Walton Mosley.

No Republican filed. Price Smith beat David L. Bryant in the August primary with 74%.

Open seat, since Zimmerman is running for county executive. Clemens beat Tommie Pierson Jr. in the August primary with 57%.

Open seat; Hancock is running for county executive. The district covers Fenton and Sunset Hills and part of West County.

Harder is the incumbent. The district includes Ballwin, Chesterfield, Ellisville and Wildwood.

County Council District 1 (Rita H. Days) and District 5 (Lisa Clancy), both Democrats.

Yes or no on keeping Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Judges Virginia W. Lay, Rebeca Navarro-McKelvey and Angela Turner Quigless; 21st Circuit Judges Richard M. Stewart, John Borbonus, Mary Elizabeth Ott, Amanda B. McNelley, Jeffery McPherson, Lorne Baker, Matt Hearne and Ellen Wyatt Dunne; and Associate Circuit Judges Julia Pusateri Lasater, Nicolette Antonia Klapp, Justin W. Ruth, Jason K. Lewis, Kelly Snyder, Mondonna L. Ghasedi and Chastidy Dillon-Amelung. Supreme Court Judge Paul C. Wilson is covered with the statewide races.

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.

Proposition A, on this ballot, decides whether Missouri keeps the 2025 congressional map. Until then the courts have put that map on hold, so these races use the 2022 districts. Florissant, Ferguson, University City, Clayton and most of North County are in the 1st District.

Chesterfield, Wildwood, Ballwin and Kirkwood are in the 2nd District; Webster Groves, Maryland Heights, Creve Coeur and unincorporated South County are split between the two.

Open seat. Sen. Brian Williams ran for county executive. North County.

Central and west-central St. Louis County.

Mostly Franklin County; only a few precincts in far western St. Louis County vote in this race.

District 4 (Gina Mitten, Democrat).

Open seat; Clemens is running for assessor.

Open seat; Proudie is running for state Senate.

Open seat; Rep. Jim Murphy is term-limited.

Open seat, vacant since January 2025.

Open seat.

District 67 (Tonya Rush), 68 (Kem Smith), 70 (Stephanie Boykin), 71 (Nicole Greer), 86 (Jeff Hales), 90 (Mark Boyko), 91 (Jo Doll), 93 (Bridget Walsh Moore) and 99 (Tori Schafer), all Democrats.

A county property tax of 5 cents per $100 of assessed value to pay for services for people 60 and older. Missouri assesses homes at 19% of market value, so on a $250,000 home that is about $24 a year. Every voter in the county sees it. Look up your sample ballot.

Amends Sections 2.200 and 2.210 of the county charter to remove the term of office for the County Auditor. Every voter in the county sees it. Not the same as statewide Proposition A on the congressional map. Look up your sample ballot.

Raises the operating tax ceiling by 46 cents per $100 of assessed value, which the district says is to retain and attract teachers and staff. The residential operating levy would go from $2.6736 to $3.1336. Look up your sample ballot.

Raises the operating levy by 65 cents per $100 of assessed value, to an estimated $4.0448, for teacher pay and general operating costs. Look up your sample ballot.

Proposition I is a $42 million bond for safety and security systems, classroom technology and building repairs, which the district says would not change the debt tax rate (needs four-sevenths to pass). Proposition N raises the operating tax ceiling by 15 cents in 2027 and 15 more in 2030, which the district says it would offset by cutting its debt levy the same amount. Look up your sample ballot.

Proposition N raises the operating tax ceiling by 55 cents per $100 of assessed value for teacher recruitment and retention, which the district says it would offset with a matching cut to its debt levy. Proposition B is a $40 million bond for buildings, sites and vehicles, with the debt levy expected to stay at $1.80 (needs four-sevenths). Look up your sample ballot.

Chesterfield Proposition A ($34.5 million bond to rebuild the city's aquatic center) and Proposition Q (a local use tax on out-of-state purchases, matched to the city sales tax rate, for the aquatic center or public safety); Creve Coeur Proposition G ($14 million bond to replace its 75-year-old Government Center); Florissant Propositions A and B (charter changes to the public works director's qualifications and to the rules for resolutions); Webster Groves Amendment 1 (drops the city manager residency requirement); and Meramec Valley R-III School District Proposition K ($45 million bond, including a new middle school). Bonds need four-sevenths of the vote. Look up your sample ballot.