The English term 'incumbency' has several distinct senses or meanings: 1: a duty that is incumbent upon you; 2: the term during which some position is held; 3: the office of an incumbent
Some of the advantages an incumbent may have are franking privilege, staffers, patronage, name recognition, casework, and money (especially from PAC's)
Incumbency has better financed campaigns, for starters. But also, people feel like they are in good hands when they vote for an incumbency b/c that person has already dint this before so they have...
The advantages that elected representatives have over newcomers in getting re-elected. For example: prior experience, familiar face to voters, access to funding, etc.
In every district. Incumbents, which are defined as any politician currently holding the office they are seeking re-election in, historically and statistically always hold an advantage over a...