Most of us treat “incumbency advantage” as axiomatic. Incumbents, particularly in the House, generate significant advantages over challengers by using the perks of office to increase their name ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is an unlikely candidate to be in a competitive race. He is an incumbent U.S. Senator and a Republican running for re-election when a Democrat sits in the White ...

In India, anti-incumbency is often used as a catch-all term to explain a poll result. Rahul Verma, a political scientist and Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), explains why it does not ...

Donald Trump may have won Iowa and New Hampshire, but nearly half of Republican voters there cast ballots for someone else. And many say they wouldn’t vote for Trump in November, either. Who are these ...

Indiana Republicans dominated for years without serious opposition. Now primary voters are forcing incumbents to defend their ...

On Wednesday night, Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn posted a video on Twitter that appears to show masked protesters marching outside a graffiti-covered federal building in Portland. The ...

Editor’s Note: Deep-red Kansas was supposed to be a lock for incumbent Republicans Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts. With less than two weeks to go until midterm elections, though, both ...

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A busy day at Indiana's House of Representatives in the state Capitol building. In the 2020 election season, 85 percent of the more than 7,000 sitting state legislators waged campaigns for new terms.

For years in Nigerian politics, incumbency was seen as almost untouchable. Once you occupied political office, many believed securing another party ticket was only a formality. But the latest APC ...

As Court watchers eagerly await the latest decision on campaign finance in a case called Citizens United, new research from the Brennan Center indicates that the Roberts’ Court’s first campaign ...