(St. Louis Public Radio) – Lyda Krewson emerged from a crowded field of candidates, many of them well-known St. Louis leaders, to win Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary.
With all precincts reporting, Krewson had 32.04 percent of the vote to city Treasurer Tishaura Jones’ 30.38 percent.
On the Republican side, utility executive Andrew Jones handily beat out his two competitors — one of whom, Crown Candy Kitchen owner Andy Karandzieff, had said he entered on a whim and didn’t really want to be mayor. Both Jones and Krewson move on to the April 4 general election.
In Krewson’s wake are six Democrats, including Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, Aldermen Antonio French and Jeffrey Boyd, Bill Haas and Jimmie Matthews. The vote totals can be found here.
Turnout was light for the primary election, according to the Board of Elections Commission. There were a total of 53,398 votes in the Democratic mayoral primary.
As for potential voting problems, Susan Ryan with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office said the office had fielded 15 phone calls by late afternoon. Two issues were being reviewed by the office to see whether they merit criminal charges. Other calls were about a broken voting machine and too few ballots.
Krewson earned 1102 absentee votes, or about 33 percent. Andrew Jones had about 50 percent of the absentee vote for Republicans.
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