---
kind: "unit"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
key: "ch12"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 12"
heading: "Contested Elections"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/ch12"
sections_count: 16
---

# Chapter 12 — Contested Elections

Title 2 — The Congress

## Sections

- [§381. Definitions](/usc/2/381.md)
- [§382. Notice of contest](/usc/2/382.md)
- [§383. Response of contestee](/usc/2/383.md)
- [§384. Service and filing of papers other than notice of contest](/usc/2/384.md)
- [§385. Default of contestee](/usc/2/385.md)
- [§386. Deposition](/usc/2/386.md)
- [§387. Notice of depositions](/usc/2/387.md)
- [§388. Subpena for attendance at deposition](/usc/2/388.md)
- [§389. Officer and witness fees](/usc/2/389.md)
- [§390. Penalty for failure to appear, testify, or produce documents](/usc/2/390.md)
- [§391. Certification and filing of depositions](/usc/2/391.md)
- [§392. Record](/usc/2/392.md)
- [§393. Filing of pleadings, motions, depositions, appendixes, briefs, and other papers](/usc/2/393.md)
- [§394. Computation of time](/usc/2/394.md)
- [§395. Death of contestant](/usc/2/395.md)
- [§396. Allowance of party’s expenses](/usc/2/396.md)