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Challenger Tom Kearney, left, and Stan Rebert square off in a Rotary forum earlier this month. The forum was streamed live via the York Daily Record's Web site, www.ync.com/ydr. (Stan Rebert conceded defeat in the primary to Tom Kearney at about 10:30 p.m. on primary day. Unless he faces an unexpected challenge in November, Kearney will be York County's 11th D.A. in the past 60 years.) Background posts: York County Dems slumped, GOP prospered in 1980s and Noted York family produced Pa. Supreme Court justice and For years, York countians part of major court cases

If Tom Kearney unseats Stan Rebert to win the Republican primary today, he will have displaced a York County institution.

Of course, Kearney is an institution himself, handling the defense of many of the highest profile capital cases in the past two decades.

It's a battle between York County's most prominent defense counsel vs. its top law enforcement officer.

Whoever wins, the district attorney's office has housed some of York County's highest profile lawyers for decades.

The following were York County's district attorneys since 1950, according to Georg Sheets' "Lawyers and Leaders":

John Thompson Sr., right, with District Attorney Stan Rebert in 1998, led the county Republican Party when it surpassed the Democratic registration lead in the 1980s. In 1979, York County Dems enjoyed a 10,000-person registration lead. Today, the Republicans have a 45,000 voter advantage. Background posts: York County elections, by the numbers and Giving news, sports junkies their fix.

Newcomers to York County might assume Republicans, with their big registration advantage, have always led the county election parade.

The fact is that York County took a liking to Jeffersonian and later Jacksonian politics in the 1800s and continued to hold onto their Democratic Party registrations for decades.

That's, in part, why Abraham Lincoln did not carry York County either in 1860 or 1864... .