Tek Bahadur Gurung of the Nepali Congress has been elected member of the House of Representatives from Manang. Gurung defeated his closest rival Folden Chopang Gurung of CPN (UML) by 328 votes. Gurung got 2,575 votes while UML candidate Gurung got 2,247 votes. Gurung, a central member of the Congress, is also a former Minister