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spokesman, led challenger Daniel P. Matthews of Needham by only 800 votes early this morning.

And Sen. Francis X. McCann of Cambridge was trailing George Bachrach, a former Democrat from Watertown running as an Independent [See page 3].

Republican State Rep. Lincoln P. Cole Jr. was defeated by a 25-year-old liberal Democrat, Stephen W. Doran. In Springfield, liberal Democratic Rep. Richard Roche lost to Robert L. Howarth. Conservative Rep. Charles R. Doyle of Boston defeated Robert Godino, running as an Independent, by 170 votes.

Republicans won the House seat vacated by Democratic Rep. Alfred Almeida of Plymouth, a Senate candidate, but lost the seat long held by retiring Rep. Belden G. Bly of Saugus.