In what would be a first in decades, Cumberland County has likely elected a Democrat as a Court of Common Pleas judge.

Sasha Sacavage is projected to win the Cumberland County judge seat made vacant with the retirement of former President Judge Ed Guido, according to Cumberland County’s count of complete precinct votes.

Sacavage received 40,394 votes, placing her 1,574 votes ahead of the Republican candidate, Magisterial District Judge Kathy Silcox, according to Cumberland County’s website.

Silcox’s term as an MDJ in Mechanicsburg will expire at the end of this year. Democrat Christine Line flipped that MDJ office blue.

The election of Sacavage to county court, if it stands following the counting of provisional ballots, would be the first time the Democrats have won a Cumberland County

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