State Rep. Nick Collins (D-South Boston) won a write-in campaign to grab a Democratic state committee seat, according to unofficial results. Collins won 1,518 votes to local activist Craig Galvin’s 535 votes.
At Tuesday’s presidential primary election, voters could choose a party committeeman and a woman for their respective state Senate district. State Sen. Jack Hart (D-South Boston) chose not to run for the First Suffolk committee seat, leading Galvin, who last year ran for Dorchester’s District 3 City Council seat, to launch his candidacy.
But a signature-gathering snafu prevented him from getting his name on the ballot and caused him to wage a write-in campaign.
Collins jumped in last weekend. Galvin claimed Collins had endorsed him for the committee seat. Collins disputed the claim.
Former City Councillor Maureen Feeney, who did not have an opponent, won the race for First Suffolk committeewoman with 97 percent of the vote.
