What is Wave elections in the United States?
In [[political science]], a '''wave election''' is one in which a [[political party]] wins a lot more than the other. In the [[United States]], there is no agreement of how many wins are needed to be called a wave election.<ref name=AAbramowitz>{{cite news|last1=Abramowitz|first1=Alan|title=The Anti-Incumbent Election Myth|url=http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-anti-incumbent-election-myth/|access-date=23 June 2014|publisher=University of Virginia Center for Politics|date=22 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Wave_elections_(1918-2016)/Full_report|title=Wave elections (1918-2016)/Full report|website=Ballotpedia|language=en|access-date=2019-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/13/was-it-a-blue-wave-or-not-that-depends-on-how-you-define-a-wave/|title=Was it a 'blue wave' or not? That depends on how you define a 'wave.'|last=Green|first=Matthew|date=2018|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Congressional [[incumbent]]s in the United States have an advantage over challengers, but a wave election often helps challengers. This results in many more incumbents losing than usual during wave elections.<ref name=AAbramowitz/> ==Related pages== * [[Landslide victory]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:Elections in the United States]]