The race for an open state Senate seat in Boston and three adjacent communities was sure to shake up the status quo, with no Italian-American son of East Boston in the race — the profile that has defined the district's senator for 40 years.

But voters did not seem hungry for too much change, as Joseph Boncore, an Italian-American son of next-door Winthrop, topped a seven-way field to capture the Democratic primary special election.

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Source: http://commonwealthmagazine.org/