Sentence examples for In incumbency from inspiring English sources

Mr Young considers only the latter, but factors in incumbency and augments the small historical sample by drawing on elections elsewhere in the world.

A few months ago, the political scientist Douglas Hibbs reported that his venerable "bread and peace" model gave Obama 47 percent of the vote based on current economic conditions (the model doesn't directly factor in incumbency so I'd guess it would understate the president's vote share).

But in general, incumbency effects are rather weak in Britain (Liberal Democrat MPs are a slight exception, because their party has a habit of building seats into strongholds through years of hyper-local campaigning).

About the only circumstance in which incumbency isn't a big advantage is when the country is in dire economic straits.

Neither do many still active in the incumbency, not least Total's head of exploration, who recently warned that peak is just around the corner.

The Lib Dems are set to put their electoral hope in the "incumbency factor" after a ComRes poll showed a double-digit swing to the Tories across 14 constituencies in the south-west of England.

A global crisis takes national forms, in which economic success, incumbency in the downturn and ideological credibility all matter, but in changing combinations.

But this year's primary features races in the Democratic Party in which the challengers are either elected officials with years of incumbency in their own right or candidates who gave incumbents a close race in earlier elections.

Application of the limit to these offices would make incumbency in them less valuable (like governors, many recent incumbents in these other statewide offices have stayed three or more terms), and thus encourage well-known potential candidates to throw their hats in the ring for governor.

PRESIDENT 97% reporting Kerry: 2,393,251 -- 51% Bush: 2,249,215 -- 48% Nader: 23,171 -- 0% MINNESOTA -- KERRY The power of incumbency in the House of Representatives was clear in the land of 10,000 lakes, where all eight officeholders won re-election.

The weak power of incumbency in Seattle actually helped Mr. McGinn in the past.He replaced Greg Nickels as mayor after Mr. Nickels was eliminated in the primary election in 2009.Mr.