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The '''incumbent''' is the current holder of a political [[official|office]]. This term is usually used in reference to [[election]]s, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent(s). For example, in the [[Hungarian presidential election, 2017]], [[János Áder]] was the incumbent, because he had been the president in the term before the term for which the election sought to determine the president. A race without an incumbent is referred to as an '''open seat'''.
 
==Etymology==