St Charles County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

The incumbent county executive since 2007, seeking a sixth term, per the county's official voter guide. A former teacher and lawyer, he has served as a state representative, state senator, circuit judge, and director of administration, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Keep the county real property tax rate at zero for an 11th year, per his voter-guide response · Complete jail expansion, a drug treatment center, and parks projects, per his response · Complete I-64 and I-70 improvements and a regional law enforcement training center, per his response

A former state senator who ran for governor in 2024, per Fox 2 News and his campaign site.

Priorities: Personal property and real estate tax cuts, per his campaign site · Support for law enforcement and first responders, per his site · Density guidelines opposing new apartments and data centers, per Spectrum News forum coverage

Mayor of Lake St. Louis from 2021 to 2025 and a lieutenant colonel with the St. Louis County Police Department, where he has served since 1998, per his campaign site and STLPR.

Priorities: Keep St. Charles County safe, per his campaign site · Cut county taxes, per his site · Smart, managed growth, per his site and STLPR

Described by Spectrum News and Fox 2 News as a longtime self-styled public advocate at O'Fallon City Council meetings. He did not respond to the county's voter-guide survey.

Unopposed on the Democratic side. He holds a physics degree and an MBA and has spent about twenty years in biotechnology manufacturing quality roles, currently as site quality head at a nonprofit blood-testing lab, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Housing reform including renter protections, per his voter-guide response · Term-limit and campaign-finance reform for county offices, per his response · Regional cooperation with neighboring counties, per his response

The sitting District 1 councilmember and council vice chair, a lifelong county resident who teaches American history in the Fort Zumwalt School District and served three terms as a Wentzville alderman, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Infrastructure and responsible budgeting, per his voter-guide response · Public safety and constituent engagement, per his response · Managed, responsible growth, per his response

The sitting District 3 councilmember and current council chair, a Navy corpsman veteran appointed to the council in 2013 who helped create the county's Port Authority, per his voter-guide submission and the county's council roster.

Priorities: Safe neighborhoods, good roads, low taxes, per his voter-guide response · Workforce training for nearby AI-driven growth, per his response · Keeping the county affordable for families, per his response

Annette Sieve is on the county's certified candidate list for the County Council District 3, per the county election authority.

The sitting District 5 councilmember, a 50-year educator and coach who has represented the district since 2008, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Infrastructure, business growth, and job creation, per his voter-guide response · Hold the line on property taxes, per his response · Public safety and the county park system, per his response

Judi Gambino is on the county's certified candidate list for the County Council District 5, per the county election authority.

The sitting District 7 councilmember, a retired professional civil engineer who worked for the St. Louis County Highway Department and as St. Charles city public works director, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Responsive constituent service and planning-board work, per his voter-guide response · Stormwater fixes for 1980s-era subdivisions, per his response · First responders and slower residential speeds, per his response

A retired IT systems and cybersecurity specialist and Army Reserve veteran who spent his career at AT&T, per his campaign site.

Priorities: Conditional use permit reform, per his voter-guide response · Blocking development that outpaces infrastructure, per his response · Citizen oversight of county agencies, per his response

Unopposed on the Democratic side, with over 15 years at the intersection of government, public safety, and data, starting as a crime and GIS analyst for the St. Charles City Police Department, per her voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Verify infrastructure capacity before new developments, per her voter-guide response · Fiscal accountability and transparent budgeting, per her response · Data-driven council decisions, per her response

The incumbent assessor for the past four years, with county government since 2007, serving on the Missouri State Assessors Association executive board, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Fair and equitable assessments, per his voter-guide response · Transparency in the assessment process, per his response · Responsive customer service, per his response

The incumbent collector since 2007, who established the county's Senior Property Tax Relief Program, per her voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Expand digital services like e-billing, per her voter-guide response · Eliminate annual renewal for senior tax relief, per her response · Better call handling during peak season, per her response

The county's appraisal manager overseeing the real estate department in the assessor's office, with nearly a decade in county government, per her voter-guide submission and campaign site.

Priorities: Modern software for senior tax relief applications, per her campaign site · Adequate peak-season staffing, per her site · Stronger collaboration between departments, per her site

The incumbent director of elections for eight years, an Air Force veteran and former state representative with a national election-administration credential, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Accurate rolls, trained poll workers, reliable results, per his voter-guide response · Paper ballots and documented chain of custody, per his response · Public hand-count audits after every election, per his response

A former Wentzville school board member with a background in accounting and election-law research work, per her voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Hand-counted paper ballots, per her voter-guide response · Keeping election spending with domestic vendors, per her response · Restoring public trust in elections, per her response

Carl Herman Freese is on the county's certified candidate list for the Director of Elections, per the county election authority.

The incumbent prosecuting attorney, elected in 2024 after more than 20 years with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department including homicide investigation, per his voter-guide submission.

Priorities: Victims' rights and offender accountability, per his voter-guide response · Support for treatment courts, per his response · Transparency about prosecutorial decisions, per his response

Mary E. Dempsey is on the county's certified candidate list for the Recorder of Deeds, per the county election authority.

Scott A. Lewis is on the county's certified candidate list for the Sheriff, per the county election authority.