Here's your Patch Election Guide for the Nov. 6 election, including a list of the candidates on the ballot in contested races in the Fenton and High Ridge area, including links to the candidate's profile or website, if any.

If you are uncertain as to where to vote, here's where you can look it up. You also can view a sample of the Nov. 6 ballot customized to your address.

Patch will provide vote totals all evening Nov. 6 as the ballots are counted by the Jefferson and St. Louis County election authorities. We would appreciate any insights or interesting anecdotes about the process of voting on election day -- crowds, or lack thereof, at the polling places, ease of voting or any problems that may occur. You can provide those by using the "comment" box at the end of this article.

And now, on to the candidate list. Note: D=Democrat, R=Republican, LIB=Libertarian Party, CST=Constitution Party.

President/Vice President

Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D)
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R)
Gary Johnson and James P. Gray (LIB)
Virgil Goode and Jim Clymer (CST)

U.S. Senator

Claire McCaskill (D)
Todd Akin (R)
Jonathan Dine (LIB)

Governor

• Jay Nixon (D)
• Dave Spence (R)

Lieutenant Governor

Susan Montee (D)
Peter Kinder (R)

Secretary of State

Jason Kander  (D)
Shane Schoeller (R)

State Treasurer

Clint Zweifel (D)
Cole McNary (R)

Attorney General

Chris Koster (D)
Ed Martin (R)

U.S. Representative - District 2

Glenn Koenen (D)
Ann Wagner (R)

State Senate - District 1

Scott Sifton (D)

State Representative - District 97

Sam Komo (D)
John McCaherty (R)

State Representative - District 111

Michael Frame (D)
Derrick R. Good (R)

JEFFERSON COUNTY GOVERNMENT OFFICES

County Council - District 2

Cheryl Hermann (D)
Renee Reuter (R)

Sheriff

Oliver "Glenn" Boyer (D)
Dan Stallman (R) 

Treasurer

Linda Nees (D)
Ken Horton (R)

Assessor

Terry Roesch (D)
Robert Boyer (R)

Public Administrator

Bruce King (D)
Steve Farmer (R)

Constitutional Amendment No. 3

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to change the current nonpartisan selection of supreme court and court of appeals judges to a process that gives the governor increased authority to appoint a majority of the commission that selects these court nominees; and appoint all non-lawyers to the commission by removing the requirement that the governor's appointees be non lawyers?

There is no estimated costs or savings expected if this proposal is approved by voters.

YES
NO

Proposition A

Proposed by Initiative Petition

Shall Missouri law be amended to:
• allow any city not within a county (the City of St. Louis) the option of transferring certain obligations and control of the city’s police force from the board of police commissioners currently appointed by the governor to the city and establishing a municipal police force;
• establish certain procedures and requirements for governing such a municipal police force including residency, rank, salary, benefits, insurance, and pension; and
• prohibit retaliation against any employee of such municipal police force who reports conduct believed to be illegal to a superior, government agency, or the press?

YES
NO

Proposition B

Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall Missouri law be amended to:
• create the Health and Education Trust Fund with proceeds of a tax of $0.0365 per cigarette and 25% of the manufacturer’s invoice price for roll your-own tobacco and 15% for other tobacco products;
• use Fund proceeds to reduce and prevent tobacco use and for elementary, secondary, college, and university public school funding; and
• increase the amount that certain tobacco product manufacturers must maintain in their escrow accounts, to pay judgments or settlements, before any funds in escrow can be refunded to the tobacco product manufacturer and create bonding requirements for these manufacturers?
Estimated additional revenue to state government is $283 million to $423 million annually with limited estimated implementation costs or savings. The revenue will fund only programs and services allowed by the proposal.
The fiscal impact to local governmental entities is unknown. Escrow fund changes may result in an unknown increase in future state revenue.

YES
NO

Proposition L
St. Louis County only

For the purpose of renovating and replacing aging facilities, enhancing children's spaces and youth, adult and senior programs, constructing, improving, operating and maintaining facilities of St. Louis County Library District, and acquiring necessary property, shall the $0.20 per hundred dollars assessed valuation tax for the Library District be increased to $0.26 per hundred
dollars assessed valuation?

YES
NO

Proposition E
Proposed by the 96th General Assembly

Shall Missouri law be amended to prohibit the Governor or any state agency, from establishing or operating state-based health insurance exchanges unless authorized by a vote of the people or by the legislature? No direct costs or savings for state and local governmental entities are expected from this proposal. Indirect costs or savings related to enforcement actions, missed federal funding, avoided implementation costs, and other issues are unknown.

YES
NO