Outside of the hotly-contested Queens district attorney's race, Tuesday's primary election will likely be a sleepy one. Most voters going to the polls will find only judgeships on the ballot.

But one of those judicial races is generating intrigue in Brooklyn, where the party establishment has rallied behind one of the candidates for surrogate judge — which her opponents say is exactly the problem.

Judge Margarita Lopez Torres was once the ultimate outsider. She stood up to Brooklyn power brokers Vito Lopez and Clarence Norman, each of whom served as Democratic Party boss. Twice she won races without party support, and she challenged party control of judgeships in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

• Meet the Candidate: Margarita Lopez Torres

But now, her opponents are asking if the woman who took on the establishment has become part of it.

"I am the one who is the independent candidate," said Civil Court Judge Elena Baron, a Democrat. "I am doing it the right way."

• Meet the Candidate: Elena Baron

Baron is seeking to oust Lopez Torres, who's now running for reelection as surrogate judge with the party's full backing, from current Brooklyn party boss Frank Seddio, to a long list of elected officials — including City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Borough President Eric Adams, and multiple members of Congress — from every level of government.

"I think there's the recognition that I've done my job and that I've done it well," Lopez Torres said.

Lopez Torres says the party leadership is different now, and that in any case, she's running on her record.

"What people will get in the next two years is what they've gotten in the last, you know, 26 years as a judge: fiercely independent, I run a good courtroom," she said.

Surrogate's Court deals with the settlement of wills and estates. Each borough has just one or two surrogate judges, who serve 14-year terms.

But just two years from now, Lopez Torres will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70.

That's an issue, says her other opponent, attorney Meredith Jones, who's worked in Surrogate's Court herself since 2003, and says she'd focus, among other things, on combatting deed theft.

• Meet the Candidate: Meredith Jones

"I think that the people of Brooklyn deserve someone who would be able to serve the full term," said the Democrat Jones.

Baron, meanwhile, was found not qualified by judicial screening panels. She says she refused to go before them because they're tainted by politics.

"I do not have any connection or links to the political establishment that is backing my opponent," Baron said. "I think that judicial races should not be about politicians backing judges."

Now of course it's up to Brooklyn voters, who will render their verdict Tuesday.

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