PROVIDENCE,—Forty year-old Angel Taveras, a Dominican-American lawyer, became the state’s first elected Latino mayor Tuesday, trouncing independent Jonathan P. Scott to assume the seat being vacated by Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, who won the 1st Congressional District seat the same night, Rhode Island media report.

The Democrat Taveras’ victory, which seemed all but assured after his September primary victory, came on an election that also marked a changing of the guard in the 15-member City Council. Seven new council members will take office in January, following the decision by a number of long-serving council members not to seek reelection and surprise losses by other incumbents in the primary, news source projo.com reports.

It said among the significant winners Tuesday was 21-year-old Democrat Davian Sanchez, who emerged from a three-way race in Ward 11 (Upper South Providence) to become the youngest elected councilman in city history.

“At 10:25 p.m., with about 77 percent of polls reporting, Taveras announced his victory. With 98 percent of polls reporting at 10:55 p.m., he had more than 82 percent of the vote,” projo.com said.

Taveras, speaking at the state Democratic Party gathering at the Biltmore, thanked his mother, Amparo “Milagro” Ovalles, a Dominican immigrant who had raised him and his two immediate siblings largely on her own while working at local factories.