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Map changes incumbents’ terrain

Keating will move to avoid race against Lynch

Leading legislators released a sweeping new plan for the state’s congressional districts yesterday that straightens out a decades-old snarl of seats, creating serious new political hurdles for the nine remaining members of the US House delegation. The plan will likely force one incumbent, William R. Keating, a Quincy Democrat, to move his residence to his summer home in Cape Cod, in order to avoid running against fellow House Democrat Stephen F. Lynch of South Boston.

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