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You have to understand the 13th District. It is evenly split between Northeast Philly (very union and Dem Catholic) and Eastern Montgomery County (getting more liberal with each passing week). When the GOP drew the district maps in 2011, they lopped off the western sections of Monto that were more GOP and added more NE Philly, making it more Dem, and they largely gave up on what used to be a leaning GOP district that elected a Republican twice in the Nineties (Jon Fox).

There were three candidates from Montco and one from Philly. The Philly guy won with the least amount of money but with very strong union support. He also was tepidly pro-life (while claiming to support Roe) so that gave him an advantage with Catholic Dems. The outgoing incumbent, Allyson Schwartz who tried and failed to gain the Dem gov nomination, was a pro-abort ghoul so this was the first contested Dem primary in some time with a marginally pro-life candidate, and the three Montco Dems tried to bash Boyle's abortion stance, and IMO it backfired on them.