I am sure many of you saw the Globe article about redistricting.
(http://www.boston.com/... ) Basically, it said they would combine Olver and McGovern's districts and then create a Cape, Island, Fall River, New Bedford District which either Keating will move to or Frank will move to. Who moves there basically depends on what Keating does, because as Norfolk DA before, he has a home in two districts. If he chooses to run there, Lynch takes the Quincy/Southie district and Frank stays in Newton. If Frank moves down to the Coast, Keating flips over to his original home in Sharon and takes the Norfolk based district. There isn't election data for Mass, but I tried to solidify each district as much as possible, but I suppose both the Lynch district and the Newton/West Norfolk districts could be competitive, but I am not sure. Here are some maps:
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