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On Monday, the Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof was laid to rest in a lipstick-red casket strewn with roses. A floral arrangement approximating the silhouettes of two mating rabbits marked his grave.

The next day, he was elected to the Nevada State Assembly.

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Hof, the owner of several legal brothels including the Love Ranch and the Moonlite BunnyRanch, died in his sleep at the age of 72 on Oct. 16, four months after winning the Republican primary for his district. On Tuesday, unofficial results from the Nevada Secretary of State showed him beating Democrat Lesia Romanov with 63 percent of the vote.

The Clark County Coroner’s Office has not yet determined the cause of Hof’s death.

His victory, however unusual, was not unexpected. The sprawling district is reliably conservative, and under state law, candidates who are elected posthumously are replaced by another member of their party. After Hof’s death, his campaign manager, Chuck Muth, urged supporters to vote for him anyway, writing that a victory would send a message to “the Carson City ‘establishment’ that tried to destroy him politically.” Electing Hof would also prevent a reliably Republican seat from falling into Democratic hands, he added.