Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Tanahun-1. He defeated his closest contender Ek Bahadur Rana of CPN-UML by a margin of 5,388 votes. He got 25,318 votes while Rana secured 19,925. Out of the total 66,584 votes cast in the constituency, 4,000 were invalid, according to the office of the chief returning officer.