29. If a vacancy occurs after a general election and before the first meeting of the new Legislature, the election to be held under a writ issued pursuant to the vacancy does not affect the rights of any person entitled to contest the previous election; and the report of the court appointed to try such previous election, if in favor of any other candidate than the person returned therefor, shall void the subsequent election and entitle the candidate, so declared duly elected at the previous election, to take his seat as if no subsequent election had taken place.
R. S. 1964, c. 6, s. 41; 1979, c. 56, s. 251.