article_snippet.sent: Two black candidates were among three people elected to the Ferguson City Council Tuesday, tripling African-American representation in the St. Louis suburb where poor race relations have been a focal point since the August shooting death of an 18-year-old black by a white police officer.
article_snippet.sent: The election means that half of the six-member city council in Ferguson, a town where two-thirds of the 21,000 residents are black, will now be African-American.
article_snippet.sent: That was about double the overall turnout in St. Louis County, where Ferguson is located.
article_snippet.sent: the limit was the first municipal election in Ferguson since officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, on Aug. 9.
article_snippet.sent: Fletcher, the former mayor who started the I Love Ferguson campaign after the unrest that ravaged the community, also won easily in the 2nd Ward.
article_snippet.sent: She was voting in the 3rd Ward, which includes the Canfield Green apartment complex where Brown was fatally shot. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Ferguson, Missouri elected three black officials to city council seats on Tuesday, up from one last term .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Black officials now comprise half of the Ferguson City Council .
  