Voters in Pahrump on Tuesday picked Republican Dennis Hof, the legal pimp who died last month, to serve in state Assembly District 36.

Electing the former brothel baron and reality TV star Hof, who died at age 72, now sets off a competitive, and convoluted, tri-county process to appoint a living Republican to the seat.

Nye County Republican Central Committee Chairman Joe Burdzinski and former Assemblyman James Oscarson have been tipped as contenders for the job.

Hof jumped out to an apparently insurmountable 36-percentage point lead against Democratic hopeful Lesia Romanov after the first batches of ballots were counted late Tuesday night.

Nevada and Washoe County Election Results: General