user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: Name the total number of incumbent for first elected of 1944
Columns: ['District', 'Incumbent', 'Party', 'First elected', 'Result', 'Candidates']
Types: ['text', 'text', 'text', 'real', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: ['Illinois 2', 'Morgan F. Murphy', 'Democratic', 1970.0, 'Re-elected', 'Morgan F. Murphy (D) 84.7% Spencer Leak (R) 15.3%']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT COUNT("Incumbent") FROM "Table" WHERE "First elected" = 1944.0;