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BOSTON--Less than a third of Boston's 207,000 registered voters are expected to turn out in today's non-partisan mayoral primary which is likely to produce a general election showdown between Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and City Councilor Joseph Tierney in November...
City elections officials yesterday predicted a turnout of 15 to 30 percent of Boston's voters in the so-called "preliminary" election in which Flynn and Tierney are vying with two lesser-known candidates to become the top two vote-getters to advance to the Nov. 3 general election...
Flynn, 48, is seeking his second term as mayor of the nation's 20th-largest city and hub of the country's 10th-largest metropolitan area. Tierney, 46, is making his first run for the $100,000-a-year job after 16 years on the City Council, 10 years as its president...
...Tierney, considered more conservative than Flynn, spent the day "out in the community" campaigning, said campaign director Evelyn Friedman, who described Tierney's chances heading into the preliminary as "great...
Flynn has raised $1 million for the race, while Tierney has collected...