By Aeden Evenson-McDermott

Molly Coleman wins Ward 4 seat for the St. Paul City Council. 

There will not be a reallocation process as Coleman won by more than half the vote with 52% of the vote and by nearly 2,000 votes at 3,359. Carolyn Will comes in at second with 21% at 1,369 votes. Cole Hanson comes in at third with 18% at 1,124 votes. Chauntyll Allen finishes in fourth with 9% at 552 votes.

“I really just wanted to say a huge thank you to the community,” Coleman said. “We’ve had an incredible coalition of people who believe in St.Paul and a brighter future in front of us.”

On the minds of many voters were issues of affordable housing, property taxes and city infrastructure. 

“A top priority for me is to build an economic just city as we can’t expect folks to pay more and more when they are already stretched to their limit financially. We know we need to know that funding of critical social services that uplift our communities,” Coleman said.  

Coleman will serve the three remaining three years of the term of former council member Mitra Jalali who resigned earlier this year due to health issues. Since Jalali’s resignation, her seat has been filled by interim City Council member Matt Privratsky, who agreed not to run in the special election.

Aeden Evenson-McDermott is a University of Minnesota journalism student and a freelance writer for the Bugle.