Joan Lovely secured a spot in the Second Essex Senate race in Thursday's Democratic primary election.
The unofficial results show Lovely winning in a landslide with 7,450 votes (50 percent), followed by John Slattery with 4,418 votes (30 percent), Mary-Ellen Manning with 2,610 (17 percent) and Edward Carroll with just 309 votes (2 percent).
Lovely will go on to face Republican challenger Richard A. Jolitz in the November election.
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