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Incumbent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Popularly known as the anti-incumbency factor, situations of this kind occur when the incumbent has proven himself not worthy of office during his tenure and the challenger demonstrates this fact to the voters. Incumbency is an especially powerful force within political parties. An election (especially for a legislature) in which no incumbent is running is often called an open seat ; because of the lack of incumbency advantage, these are often amongst the most hotly-contested races in any election. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Incumbent

Anti Anti Cheat Anti Cheat is a generic term for all sorts of technologies that attempt to prevent players from cheating. Anti The prefix anti- means "the opposite of". Anti Revolutionaire Partij The Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (Dutch for Anti Revolutionary Party) was the first Dutch polit... www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/anti.html

Badal up against anti-incumbency wave - NDTV.com - News on Badal up against anti-incumbency wave A buoyant Congress riding on the anti incumbency wave is sure that Badal is on his way out but he has often managed to prove his critics wrong in the past. But opinion polls suggest that Badal will have to combat an anti incumbency wave to return to power in the forthcoming polls. In the turbulent history of the state this is the first Akali government that has lasted its full five-year term. www.ndtv.com /template/template.asp?template=Punjabpolls&id=20508&callid=1

No anti-incumbency against NDA: Advani - Sify.com Advani said "it is perhaps for the first time that incumbency is not a liability" for the six years of "good governance" provided by the Vajpayee government. sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13437598

Media Blog on National Review Online Charles Krauthammer wrote a column for the Post in November of 1994 about the “anti-incumbency” myth that was already taking hold among devastated Democrats: I did some more looking and found out that incumbency reelection rates in 1994 were 92.3 percent for the Senate and 90 percent for the House. A look around Open Secrets.org indicates that such rates are on par with the average incumbency re-election rates for those august bodies. media.nationalreview.com /065399.asp

Public fury eliminates AIADMK though there was a strong anti incumbency sentiment amongst the electorate it should be remembered that the aiadmk as a party still managed to retain its vote share of around 30%. for example if the alliance arithmetic of 1999 or 2001 continued in this election the result would have been different though the anti incumbency would still have taken a toll. Public anger against the AIADMK government, coupled with numerical supremacy of DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA), ensured a washout for the AIADMK-BJP combination in the Lok Sabha polls. www.expressindia.com /messages.php?newsid=31449

'Is this an attempt to put a positive spin?' Rajasthan and Chattisgarh, the party took the help of the caste card to supplement the anti incumbency factor, in Delhi, a metropolis, it was unable to find any method of loosening Sheila Dikshit's grip on the middle classes and realised very late that anti incumbency against its own government was huge. Gaurang Anti-incumbency against Centre helped Congress in Delhi Pankaj Vohra http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/6560_483595,001600290006.htm New Delhi, December 4 If the Congress rout in the hindi heartland was halted by Delhi it was essentially because the anti incumbency factor against the Centre proved to be greater than than the anti incumbency factor against the Delhi government. The evidence of the strong anti feeling vis-a-vis the Central government came to fore in the New Delhi Parliamentary constituency as also in R.K.Puram where a large number of government employees live. www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/alt.religion.hindu/messages/63323.html

Anti-incumbency factor reason for defeat: Ayanur - Deccan Herald The strong anti incumbency feeling which has been noticed throughout the country, and which was particularly strong in Karnataka is the reason for his defeat, Mr Manjunath said. The only reason for the BJP to have won six seats in shimoga is the anti incumbency feeling and the lack of any viable alternative before the voters. Addressing a press conference in Shimoga city on Tuesday, Mr Manjunath expressed his gratitude to the voters and the supporters who had voted in his favour during the election. www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may192004/d18.asp

WWW Lecture 7 outline: Change in 1996 largely due to 42 retirees/ 10 representatives seeking higher office; 2 open seats /power of incumbency in Senate. Break power of incumbency, increase electoral competitiveness and improve representation, break links with PACs, improve turnout. In open seats, where no incumbent running, 76% of candidates who spent more were successful (so NOT just money that explains incumbency advantage). www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/Politics/u_grad/notes01-02/226wk7.htm

Welcome to rediff.com What one cannot understand is the so called anti-incumbency factor which all the loosing parties crow about, soon after the results are known. Is the Indian voter that intelligent to be influenced by the factor of incumbency? What matters to him is who would fulfill his wants, needs and aspirtaions. mboard.rediff.com /board/board.php?boardid=news2003dec12ash

Talent leads Carnahan in Missouri Senate Race ZOGBY poll shows: 47.3% to 40.8% Yeah, this is the first I have heard of an "anti incumbency wave." Methinks the St. Louis Post Dispatch is spinning a possible Dem loss. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo., may be caught in an anti- incumbency wave that's threatening members of Congress around the country. ....an anti- incumbency wave that's threatening members of Congress around the country. www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/768317/posts

Second thoughts in Andhra Pradesh The Chief Minister believes that if leaders begin to fear the incumbency factor, none of them would be able to take decisions and the development of States would come to a halt. He said that it was for the leaders to explain their policies to the people and convince them of their efficacy. He no longer emphasises his achievements on the information technology front; instead he speaks about constructing five lakh houses for the weaker sections by March 1999, distributing house sites to the poor and supplying improved tool-kits to artisans. www.flonnet.com /fl1526/15260370.htm

Maharashtra polls: Can Shinde beat anti-incumbency? The findings of this poll suggest that there is a strong incumbency effect. When Sonia Gandhi declined to be PM, some hailed it as an act of sacrifice; others felt it was a political stunt to win the sympathy of the electorate. Most surveys conducted when Vajpayee was PM, showed he was well ahead of Sonia. www.expressindia.com /election/maharashtra04/fullestory.php?type=ei&content_id=36871

Article - Devender Goud no longer no 2 Goud, reportedly, told the TDP Polit Buro that he predicted the TDP forming the government and also spoke about the anti incumbency factor. “But media had high lighted the anti incumbency factor more than my statement about TDP coming back to power, Goud reportedly told Naidu. But it is certain that many senior ministers like Goud, Vidyadher Rao, and Yanamala Ramakrishnudu would be drafted for the party work if TDP comes to power again. www.greatandhra.com /articles/goud_remarks.html

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation One region where incumbency seems to work in favour of parties. Candidates of ruling parties in each of the seven states have done well here. www.telegraphindia.com /1040514/asp/nation/story_3245841.asp

National It was not a surprise that the Congress won Himachal Pradesh if one goes by the anti incumbency theory. It was a surprise that despite the two Congress rivals—PCC chief Vidya Stokes and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh—trying to sabotage each other’s group, the party won a handsome victory. Even before the elections, the BJP strategists had admitted that it was going to be a tough fight. www.dayafterindia.com /mar2/ls.html

FEATURES SAMACHAR -- The only bookmark on Features you'll ever need Thus it acts both ways while adding to the incumbency, the friendly opposition also simultaneously robs much of its benefits from the real opposition. The cumulative effect of a stepped up campaign by both the opposition and ruling allies has raised the incumbency pitch. Had Bihar witnessed a clear two-alliance contest, will the perception of anti-government feelings have reached at the present level? www.samachar.com /features/230205-features.html

BJP’s Finest Hourof life The country's most exhaustive political tracker, the India Today- ORG-MARG Mood of the Nation poll last August (it, August 26, 2002) detected the first signs of the anti- incumbency tide being rolled back. The talk of a snap poll any time between October and February next year is doing the rounds. Nearly six months later, the trend has crystallised quite dramatically. www.hvk.org /articles/0203/226.html

Are you famous? BJP wants you : HindustanTimes.com How do you plan to overcome the anti-incumbency factor and, in some NDA-ruled states, the double anti- incumbency? Are you depending on the divided opposition and a weak Congress to put you back in power? I am depending on my leader and my party's performance. www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_673255,001300940010.htm

NDTV Message Board States like AP and Karnatake which hv taken up aggressive reforms have suufered anti incumbency. But why this is not true for Biha, where absolutely u don't see any development and still the ruling RJD wins!!! Don't develop ur state and u will win - www.ndtv.com /mb/readreply.asp?topicid=793&tablename=news&id=617787

One Arif Khan does not make a Muslim summer for BJP in UP Except that given the many khichdi sarkars in both Lucknow and Delhi, it is the sitting MP who is the victim of anti-incumbency more than any party. If there is one wave in UP today, it is the wave of anti-incumbency. Almost everyone you meet in Kaisarganj—Muslim and non-Muslim—will tell you that Arif is ahead for two reasons—because he is a ‘‘good candidate’’ and had done a lot for the area in his various terms as MP from neighbouring Bahraich; and because the SP’s veteran leader and three-term MP Beni Prasad Varma ‘‘has done nothing’’. www.expressindia.com /election/fullestory.php?type=ie&content_id=45804

Excelsior... Nation Controlling groupism in the party unit and helped by the anti-incumbency sentiment against the then BJP Government mainly because of the onion crisis, Sheila led her party to an impressive victory grabbing 52 out of 70 seats at stake in the last assembly polls. Leading Congress to an impressive victory in Delhi when anti-incumbency wave swept away party’s Governments in three other states, Sheila Dikshit takes reins of power for the second time with an inflated stature, virtually marginalising her detractors. The 65-year-old, who was dubbed as an "outsider" by her critics, including those within the party, demonstrated her popularity and prowess besides political and administrative acumen as she commandered her party to a two-third majority victory for second time in the December 1 assembly polls. www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03dec16/national.htm

Office-holder An anti-incumbency factor can also be responsible for bringing down incumbents who have been in office for many successive terms in spite of performance indicators, simply because the voters are convinced by the challenger of a need for change. Popularly known as the anti-incumbency factor, situations of this kind occur when the incumbent has proven himself not worthy of office during his tenure and the challenger demonstrates this fact to the voters. Other Sources: 99 percent of Senate and 90 percent of House incumbents were reelected. ashlandunited.com /wiki/Office-holder

Panhandle Pundit: My Take On Term Limits Term limits must be justified on some external effect of careerism that is negatively affecting the democratic process severely and unable to be checked in a less anti-democratic manner. Of course, term limits in the executive branch are also, in a sense, undemocratic, but these are much longer established and reflect the anti-authoritarian principles and precautions on which this nation was founded. Whether or not term limits will or won't alleviate the institutional advantages of incumbency is obvious: state and national term limits will effectively end the unfair perpetual incumbency that has kept not just good, decent politicians in office, but corrupt, power-mad politicos as well. rynemcclaren.typepad.com /blog/2005/11/my_take_on_term.html   (7456 words)

Argentina Israel's kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in May 1960, an episode generally seen in the country as the Jewish state's trampling on Argentine sovereignty, was among the factors exacerbating anti-Jewish attacks during the incumbency of Arturo Frondizi, a member of the League against Racism and Antisemitism a few decades earlier. Against the backdrop of the anti-leftist and anti-Jewish biases in Argentina and other countries in the region, immigration became increasingly restrictive vis-à-vis Spanish Republicans and Jews in the 1930s. Hostility continues unabated towards immigrants from neighbouring and nearby countries, especially Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru, some of whom entered Argentina illegally for economic reasons; towards immigrants from Korea, the first of whom arrived in Buenos Aires in 1965; and towards the offspring of the much older immigrant community from the Middle East. www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/argentina/argentina.htm   (6856 words)

Rediff On The NeT: The Rediff Election Profile/Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu In 1994, after the TDP regained power following an anti-Congress wave triggered by an anti-liquor agitation and a strong anti-incumbency factor, Naidu became the finance and revenue minister in the NTR cabinet. Chandrababu was fully in control of the party, and it was because of his efforts that NTR had regained his chair,'' says Subramaniam Naidu. In 1979, Chandrababu and then irrigation minister C Das were instrumental in ensuring G Kuthuhalamma's election as the Chittoor zilla parishad chief against the official Congress nominee. www.rediff.com /election/1999/sep/23naidu.htm   (2371 words)

On the defensive The Congress(I)'s calculations of taking on the NDA on the basis of the latter's dismal performance and cashing in on the anti-incumbency factor are being frustrated by the way in which the BJP has changed the course of political discourse. Congress(I) leaders disagree: "We have been criticising the anti-people policies of the NDA government since the AICC [All India Congress Committee (I)] plenary session in March 2001. As the campaign progresses, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), especially the Bharatiya Janata Party, is increasingly jettisoning issues of development and gradually concentrating on Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin. www.flonnet.com /fl2109/stories/20040507007400800.htm   (1371 words)

BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY Usually the ruling party has a liability in the form of anti-incumbency but this time due to our performance incumbency will work as an asset for the party. Party has successfully laid down core agenda for national debate for last two decades. In this endeavor, party and personalities are the means to the end. www.bjpap.org /nec/LKAdvani.htm   (328 words)

[DW] StarTribune - Minneapolis e-mail forum has become a force in Combine these online factors with anti-incumbency feelings that have built up since the last Minneapolis local elections four years ago and you have one heck of a challenging online political discourse environment. First, somewhere between 500-1000 participants either you must enforce the rules or they will not be followed, second after about two years many of the original participants pull back (often into more private spaces) often because of built up inter-personal "anti-bodies" that build up in the system. After three years, the Minneapolis Issues Forum has received finally received direct attention in the state's largest newspaper. www.mail-archive.com /do-wire%40tc.umn.edu/msg00345.html   (444 words)

Teresa Heinz Kerry Since that time, the local branch has tirelessly pushed an anti-business agenda in the name of “preserving the environment.” However, it is the Tides Foundation’s national organization whose connections are most disconcerting. Then-Gov. Robert P. Casey, a Democrat, was likely to appoint someone from his own party, which would mean a built-in incumbency advantage in the special election that would replace Heinz in November of that year. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates. teresa-heinz-kerry.blogspot.com   (444 words)

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