The most recent incumbent president is Barack Obama. For the upcoming 2016 presidential election there are no candidates yet.
President: James Madison Vice President: George Clinton
An incumbent agency is the advertising agency that has the business of a client or company. It is the agency that is currently under contract with a client to advertise their products or services.
A congressman who was already in office and was reelected.
John Adams and his vice president Charles Pickney ran as Federalist ain 1796 and 1800. After Adams lost , the Federalists began to break up and were not a national force in future elections. Thomas Jefferson and his vice president Aaron Burr ran against him
The party that controls a particular office before and during an election.
Barack Obama is the incumbent president.
Barack Obama is the incumbent democratic president.
Barack Obama is the incumbent US President, now campaigning for election to a second term.
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The word "incumbent" refers to the person who is currently in office. So, the incumbent president refers to President Obama. His challenger in the 2012 election was Mitt Romney. In politics, the incumbent is the one who holds the job-- whether it's the governor or mayor or president; the person trying to win that job in an election is the challenger, who is trying to defeat the incumbent.
President Barack Obama is an incumbent becsuse he is currently in office
If an incumbent president is willing and qualified to run for reelection, his party does not contest his nomination, most likely because of the message that would be interpreted if the party does not support its incumbent president. However, that was not always the case. Before the Civil War, several incumbent presidents, including Franklin Pierce in 1856, sought but did not receive their parties' nominations for president.
14 U.S. Vice Presidents to date have also been U.S. President. 13 of them were Vice President immediately before becoming President, and one became President eight years after the end of his Vice Presidency.Incumbent Vice President John Adams was elected President in 1796.Incumbent Vice President Thomas Jefferson was first elected President in 1800.Incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren was elected President in 1836.Vice President John Tyler assumed the Presidency when incumbent President William Henry Harrison died in 1841.Vice President Millard Fillmore became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President Zachary Taylor died in 1850.Vice President Andrew Johnson became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President Abraham Lincoln died in 1865.Vice President Chester A. Arthur became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President James A. Garfield died in 1881.Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President William McKinley died in 1901.Vice President Calvin Coolidge became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President Warren G. Harding died in 1923.Vice President Harry S Truman became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945.Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became President by Tyler's Precedent when incumbent President John F. Kennedy died in 1963.Former Vice President Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968 and 1972.Vice President Gerald R. Ford became President according to the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified in 1967) when incumbent President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.Incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush was elected President in 1988.
The incumbent is the current holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent
William Howard Taft, the incumbent President, was nominated by the Republicans for a second term in 1912.
Benjamin Harrison ousted an incumbent President Grover Cleveland from office but then lost to him in the next election. This made Grover to be the 22nd and 24th President of USA.