From president to local contests in Missouri, St. Louis County and South County, a number of important elections were decided on Nov. 5.

Though St. Louis County has released 100% of votes, results are unofficial and will remain so until no later than Dec. 10, per the Missouri Secretary of State.

There were few upsets on Election Night in South County, as incumbents appeared to easily win reelection.

Incumbent Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin, will serve a seventh consecutive term after defeating Ray Hartmann (D), founder of the Riverfront Times, for Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District seat.

In state legislative races, all South County incumbents were victorious.

Incumbent Doug Beck, D-Affton, defeated Robert Crump (R) for the Missouri Senate District 1 seat, incumbent Michael Burton, D-Lakeshire, defeated Kenneth Abram (R) for the 92nd Missouri House District seat, incumbent Bridget Walsh Moore, D-Affton, defeated third-party candidate James O’Donnell (L) for the 93rd Missouri House District, incumbent Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, defeated Kyle Kerns (D) for the 94th Missouri House District seat, incumbent Michael O’Donnell, R-Oakville, defeated Deb Langland (D) for the 95th Missouri House District and incumbent Brad Christ, R-Sappington, defeated Leslie Derrington (D) for the 96th Missouri House District seat.

One newcomer to public office, Mike Archer (R), won the District 6 St. Louis County Council seat over Kevin Schartner (D). Incumbent Ernie Trakas, R-Oakville, lost his third term reelection bid in the Republican primary against Archer on Aug. 6.

Statewide, Amendments 2, 3 and 7 passed, legalizing sports betting, enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution and prohibiting ranked choice voting, respectively. 

Missouri Proposition A, an initiative that will increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour and require businesses to provide their employees with paid sick days, and Green Park Proposition M, imposing an additional 3% sales tax on all retail sales of adult-use marijuana sold within the city also passed.

Additionally, all three St. Louis County propositions – Proposition A, Proposition C and Proposition O – passed.

Missouri Amendments 5 and 6 did not pass.

Republican incumbent Josh Hawley defeated Democrat Lucas Kunce for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat, a trend that continued statewide as every open position that was voted on by all Missourians was won by the GOP candidate.

Mike Kehoe (R) defeated Crystal Quade (D) in the governor race, Dave Wasinger (R) defeated Richard Brown (D) in the lieutenant governor race, Denny Hoskins (R) defeated Barbara Phifer (D) in the secretary of state race, incumbent Vivek Malek (R) defeated Mark Osmac (D) in the state treasurer race and incumbent Andrew Bailey (R) defeated Elad Jonathan Gross (D) in the attorney general race.