Sentence examples for incumbency factor from inspiring English sources

Name recognition and the incumbency factor will be enough to ensure that at least some of their targets survive, even in the face of a relatively large anti-Conservative swing.

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.

Optimists in the yellow camp say these will showcase the party's enduring electoral strengths: determined local campaigning, the ability to mobilise a tactical anti-Tory vote, and the incumbency factor.

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.

But their analysis is likely to conclude that the "incumbency factor" was blown away in a close election because many people voted for David Cameron to be prime minister and were not thinking about their constituency.

It argues that if "a more diverse group of candidates is not selected in these seats now, the incumbency factor makes it likely that many of the constituencies concerned will not see another opportunity for change for the next 15 to 20 years".

Lib Dem MPs didn't benefit from the incumbency factors they had hoped.

Labour are lucky that the Lib Dems are doing so badly in the polls but they will recover somewhat before the general election and incumbency factors make it likely that although they will lose seats they are not going to suffer a wipeout.

The "anti-incumbency" factor that tends to handicap all ruling parties worked against Congress.

"Whenever there is an anti-incumbency factor and people are fed up with the sitting government and they want change, more people come out to vote.

In most places, voters threw out the party in power at the state level the "anti-incumbency factor" that dominates Indian elections.