St. Paul, Minnesota
| St. Paul, Minnesota | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of St. Paul
Melvin Carter III | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2021 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2025 |
| Last city council election: | 2023 |
| Next city council election: | 2027 |
| City council seats: | 7 |
| City website | |
| Composition data (2019) | |
| Population: | 304,547 |
| Race: | White 57.0% African American 16.1% Asian 18.7% Native American 0.8% Pacific Islander 0.0% Two or more 4.9% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic 9.2% |
| Median household income: | $57,876 |
| High school graduation rate: | 86.6% |
| College graduation rate: | 40.8% |
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St. Paul is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota. The city's population was 311,527 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of St. Paul uses a strong mayor and city council system. In this form of municipal government, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body while the mayor serves as the city's chief executive.[1]
Mayor
The mayor serves as the city's chief executive and is responsible for proposing a budget, signing legislation into law, appointing departmental directors, and overseeing the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor also represents the city on the state, national, and international levels.[2]
The current Mayor of St. Paul is Melvin Carter III. Carter assumed office in 2018.
City council
The St. Paul City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[3][4]
The St. Paul City Council is made up of seven members, each of whom is elected by one of the city's seven districts. Council members serve four-year terms.[4]
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Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mayoral partisanship
St. Paul has a Democratic mayor. As of November 2024, 63 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 25 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, four are independents, five identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2023
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, held general elections for city council on November 7, 2023. The filing deadline for this election was August 15, 2023.
2021
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, held a general election for mayor on November 2, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was August 10, 2021.
2019
2018
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, held a special election for the Ward 4 seat on the city council on August 14, 2018. The filing deadline to run in this election was June 5, 2018.[5][6]
2017
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, held an election for mayor on November 7, 2017. The filing deadline for this election was August 15, 2017. Mayor Chris Coleman (D) did not file for re-election because of his 2018 campaign for governor.[7]
2015
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, held elections for city council on November 3, 2015. Because the city uses instant-runoff voting, there was no primary election. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was August 11, 2015. All seven city council seats were up for election.[8]
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for St. Paul | |
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| St. Paul | |
| Population | 311,527 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 51 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 54.3% |
| Black/African American | 15.6% |
| Asian | 18.4% |
| Native American | 0.7% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% |
| Two or more | 7.8% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 8.6% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 88.2% |
| College graduation rate | 42.8% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $69,919 |
| Persons below poverty level | 11.8% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2017-2022). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates by fiscal calendar years running from January 1 to December 31.[9] In St. Paul, the mayor presents a proposed budget to the city council by August 15. The city council must approve a budget after holding public hearings. The council may make changes to the mayor's proposal, and the mayor holds line-item veto power over the council's adopted budget.[10]
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[11]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[12] |
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The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[11]
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Contact information
Mayor's office
5 Kellogg Blvd. West
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Phone: 651-266-8510
City Clerk's office
310 City Hall
15 Kellogg Blvd. West
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Phone: 651-266-8688
Click here for city council contact information.
Ballot measures
- See also: Ramsey County, Minnesota ballot measures
The city of St. Paul is in Ramsey County. A list of ballot measures in Ramsey County is available here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including St. Paul, following the death of George Floyd. Events in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area began on Tuesday, May 26, the day after George Floyd's death.[14] On May 28, Gov. Tim Walz (D) activated and deployed the Minnesota National Guard to the cities at the request of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D).[15] That night, people occupied and set fire to the Third Precinct police department building in Minneapolis.[16] On May 29, Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III (D) instituted curfews in the cities.[17]
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described St. Paul, Minnesota, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[18]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Municode, "St. Paul City Charter Ch. 3.01 and 4.01," accessed October 27, 2014
- ↑ Municode, "St. Paul City Charter Ch. 3.01," accessed October 27, 2014
- ↑ Municode, "St. Paul City Charter Ch. 4.01," accessed October 27, 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 St. Paul, Minnesota, "City Council," accessed September 1, 2021
- ↑ St. Paul Legistar, "Legislation: RES 18-234," accessed February 19, 2018
- ↑ Ramsey County, "Candidate Filing," accessed February 19, 2018
- ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "2017 Municipal and School District Elections," accessed August 9, 2017
- ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "Election Results," accessed September 17, 2021
- ↑ Municode, "Saint Paul, Minnesota City Charter - Chapter 10," accessed August 28, 2023
- ↑ Saint Paul, Minnesota, "Saint Paul's Budget," accessed August 28, 2023
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 28, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 28, 2023
- ↑ Minnesota Public Radio, "Tear gas, chaos, rain: Protests rage after man dies in Mpls. police custody," May 26, 2020
- ↑ NBC DFW 5, "Nationwide Protests Over George Floyd’s Death Turn Violent," May 29, 2020
- ↑ Fox 9 KMSP, "Rioters set Minneapolis police precinct on fire as protests reignite over George Floyd's death," May 28, 2020
- ↑ NBC 10 News, "More National Guard members to be called up after 4th night of Minneapolis unrest," May 30, 2020
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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