article_snippet.sent: The lone black incumbent councilman, Dwayne James, was not up for re-election.
article_snippet.sent: Wesley Bell Jr., 18, left, casts his vote alongside his father Wesley Bell who claimed victory in the race for Ferguson City Council Ward 3 seat .
article_snippet.sent: Unofficial results showed that Wesley Bell defeated another black candidate to win in Ferguson City Council Ward 3 seat; Ella Jones defeated another black candidate and two white candidates in Ferguson City Council Ward 3 seat; and Brian Fletcher, a former mayor who is white, won a 2nd Ward race against another white candidate. '
article_snippet.sent: Ferguson City Council ward three candidates Lee Smith (R) and Wesley Bell
article_snippet.sent: Wesley Bell is a lawyer and a criminology professor who had to defend Wesley Bell because of a third job - municipal judge in a neighboring town of Velda City that, like Ferguson, derives a large percentage of Wesley Bell budget from municipal court fines.
highlights_snippet.sent: The elected black officials include Wesley Bell and Ella Jones, while Dwayne James, the incumbent, was not up for reelection .