---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 395"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "395"
heading: "Death of contestant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/395"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Contested Elections"
---

# §395. Death of contestant


In the event of the death of the [contestant](/usc/2/381.md?p=3), the contested [election](/usc/2/381.md?p=1) case shall abate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–138, § 16, Dec. 5, 1969, 83 Stat. 290.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to any general or special election for Representative in, or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress of the United States occurring after Dec. 5, 1969, see section 19 of Pub. L. 91–138, set out as a note under section 381 of this title.