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ST. LOUIS — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones again failed to keep pace with the fundraising of her challenger, Alderwoman Cara Spencer, a task made harder in recent weeks following the mayor’s distant second-place finish in the March 4 primary.

Spencer and her political action committee together raised over $375,000 over the last month, according to the most recent campaign finance filings, compared to about $179,000 Mayor Jones and the PAC supporting her raised.

Spencer’s haul put her campaign at almost $1.1 million in total contributions this election, according to the reports, filed Monday. The PAC supporting her raised another $580,000. 

Jones’ campaign has raised $991,000 over the course of the campaign, while her PAC raised another $232,000.

Spencer’s campaign and PAC spent almost $380,000 over the last month, and a combined $1.4 million on the campaign thus far, with about $140,000 left to spend in the campaign’s final days. 

Jones and her PAC spent $280,000 over the last month, bringing their combined spending to more than $1.3 million over the whole campaign cycle and leaving the mayor’s campaign and PAC with about $80,000 in the bank. 

Spencer in March won votes from some 68% of voters. Jones finished with 33%.

Donors to the two camps followed familiar patterns. Developers in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ have flocked to Spencer. Clayco founder Bob Clark has been a prolific donor to Spencer, with he and his companies sending over $130,000 Spencer’s way. In March, the alderwoman’s PAC received another $50,000 from a Clayco affiliated firm, the Lamar Johnson Collaborative, an architecture firm that works with Clayco, according to the Monday filings. Clark, his wife and other Clayco executives donated at least another $8,000 to Spencer’s campaign.

Also kicking in for Spencer, according to the new filings: former Mayor Lyda Krewson; Byron Clemens, with the local teacher’s union; Tom Carnahan, a Democratic party fundraiser and son of former Gov. Mel Carnahan; Lacy Clay, the former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ congressman; John Dubinsky, a retired banker and civic booster; and Tim Person, treasurer of Comptroller Darlene Green’s PAC.

Jones, meanwhile, took in big money from her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, which gave $10,000 to her PAC. Also donating to Jones were Ken and Nancy Kranzberg, the Grand Center Arts District boosters; former Build-A-Bear CEO Maxine Clark; political consultants David Barklage and Richard Callow; the United Auto Workers; and Alderman Shane Cohn.

For campaign finance reports in the comptroller race, please see Baringer outraises Green in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ comptroller race.