2 U.S.C. § 395 — Death of contestant

This is a very short, single-sentence rule. If the person who is contesting a House election^* — the "contestant^*" — dies, the contested election case must "abate," meaning it automatically ends and does not continue. The section does not describe any way for someone else to take over the case or continue it after the contestant's death; it only states that the case stops.