With voter turnout soaring, Ferguson voters remade the racial makeup of their City Council on Tuesday in the St. Louis suburb’s first municipal election since a white police officer killed an unarmed black man last summer.

Of three new council members elected, two are black. Once they are sworn in later this month, the council will consist of three blacks and three whites.

Turnout was nearly 30 percent — more than double the last municipal election.

Before the election, Ferguson, which is 67 percent black, had five white City Council members and one black member. Three of those white council members did not run for re-election.

The disproportionate makeup of Ferguson’s government had been attributed to poor turnout among black voters. On Tuesday, activists and candidates knocked on doors and gave residents rides to the polls.

The Ward 2 race offered a clear matchup of establishment versus upstart — and there, the establishment won. Former Ferguson Mayor Brian Fletcher defeated street protester-turned-candidate Bob Hudgins, 58 percent to 42 percent.

Both men are white, but Hudgins had the support of prominent black activists. “Technically, if we get Bob a seat, it’s like having another black person,” said one activist, Tony Rice.