The word "incumbency" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the period during which a person holds a particular office or position. Example: "During his incumbency, the mayor implemented several key reforms." Alternatives include "tenure" and "officeholding."
Such MPs gained 750-1,000 votes as a result of becoming incumbents, they concluded.The advantage of incumbency may be growing further.
The senator is, after all, a Washington incumbent at a time when both incumbency and all things federal are held to be wildly unpopular.
The shadow science minister has held the seat since 2001, but with a gradually decreasing vote each election, confounding the theory of beneficial incumbency.
This issue is Abbott's to exploit – Labor's response to the issue has all the problems of incumbency against the opposition's sloganeering.
Based on the limited data available, there is no discernible incumbency effect.
Tory strategists were hoping to see their party ahead by this stage of the campaign on the back of a strong economic message and the so called incumbency factor.
I imagine the anti-incumbent feeling will actually turn out to be a pro-incumbency feeling," she says.That is surely wishful thinking.
The probable cause of the BJP's calamity is a simple old-fashioned anti-incumbency vote.
The begums were freed and Bangladeshi politics has resumed its five-yearly anti-incumbency cycle.In this section The tenacity of hope A good vote in the angry valley Shadow movement Go for big chests and slim waists Don't bring me your huddled masses Reprints Related items Bangladesh: After we were so rudely interruptedDec 11th 2008The election, however, was something of a triumph.
This fits a welcome pattern of anti-incumbency in the state: the two parties alternate in office, and thus appear to be responsive to voters' demands.
"I tell people on my walks here every Saturday, 'It's a bad day when you see Beto O'Rourke walking up your sidewalk to talk to you,'" Reyes said.At a more substantive moment, Mr Reyes explained that he's taking the primary seriously because of "the anti-incumbency effort around the country".
