But neither incumbency nor Golkar's backing is a guarantee of victory, as Mr Sondakh's defeat illustrates.
Incumbency is a powerful barrier in industries, such as finance, where there are strong network effects.
If Rogan doesn't seek re-election, Republicans lose the advantage of incumbency in the district.
Moreover, the filing of the WTO case reveals some of the unseemly perquisites of incumbency.
Might the incumbency advantage save the Tories from the expected drubbing on May 1st?
And with constituency boundaries remaining unchanged, the power of that incumbency will be undiminished.
Apart from the obvious advantages of money and incumbency, it has developed an almost unbeatable structure.
Despite the advantages of incumbency such as fawning state-controlled media the main challenger, Sarath Fonseka, might yet sneak home.
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He blamed the anti-incumbency factor, or the well-known penchant of voters to throw out governments every five years.
Privileged with incumbency and a populism that still strikes a chord with poorer Iranians, he remains their best chance.
At the latest count, 73 are retiring, around one-fifth of the total, and their incumbency effect retires with them.
Since 1980 your endorsements have displayed a clear anti-incumbency bias (see article).
Yet the advantage of incumbency that helped him did not save unpopular governors.
VeriFone is continuing to prove that widespread incumbency combined with market-leading innovation is a winning formula for the payments marketplace.
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The House of Representatives can turn over in two years, and in 2006 it did, despite a modern incumbency bias.
Nevertheless, the National Front could claim 60% control of the new parliament, thanks to various electoral prerogatives from its long incumbency.
Due to incumbency and age, both iOS and Android have a significantly larger pool of applications than any other mobile platform.
He has money, media and the power of incumbency to stage events.
"Seminar" publisher Singh debunked the general view that the outcome will be a close call, saying that the anti-incumbency factor is overstated.
In Britain, unlike America, the advantage of incumbency used to be weak.
But incumbency may still enable some Tories to cling on to seats which otherwise would have been swept away by a Blairite tide.
If she does make it to the run-off, she will have the benefits of incumbency to promote herself for the next two-and-a-half months.
She will be able to use all the benefits of incumbency to promote her candidacy over the next two and a half months.
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MPs who had won for this first time in 1987, and were therefore benefiting from an incumbency effect for the first time in 1992.
Another reason for a new golden age of small companies is that size and incumbency breed inertia, faster than ever--even in the best of companies.
Conservative political analysts console themselves with the thought that the Republicans have certain structural advantages such as gerrymandering and incumbency that could protect them from public disillusionment.
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That suggests incumbency was not a factor in the original result.
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It's not really that simple, but there's no denying that incumbency has its advantages in a re-election campaign, as this week's "How it Works" explains.
They point out that the ruling party's structural advantages such as the power of incumbency and the protections of gerrymandering are bigger than they were in 1994.
But another reason Mr Brown is safe is that he has deprived himself of what ought to be one of the few advantages of long incumbency.
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