Elaheh Rastgou

Rastgou entered Islamic Consultative Assembly's 5th term in Malayer's 1997 by-election, defeating the incumbent Hassan Zamanifar. She was a sympathizer of Executives of Construction fraction at the time.^[7] In 2000 elections, she ran for a seat in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr as Freethinkers' Pinnacle Party's candidate and was defeated.^[8][7] Backed by reformist 'Coalition For Iran',^[4] she was defeated in 2004 from the same district. In 2008 parliamentary elections, she lost again while listed in both Islamic Iran Participation Front and National Trust Party endorsing lists.^[9]

She lost 2003 and 2006 elections of City Council of Tehran, but eventually won a seat in 2013 while being supported by reformists coalition.

A sudden switch of allegiance by Rastgou, reformist-backed member of the Tehran City Council, helped Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf to retain his seat by a vote margin of one.^[6] Following the vote, she was 'fired' from Islamic Labour Party because allegedly 'breaking her oath to vote for the reformist mayor'.^[10]

In 2017, she officially joined the conservative alliance Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces.^[11]

Year	Election	Votes	%	Rank	Notes
1996	Parliament By-election	112,396	44.6	1st	Won[7]
2000	Parliament	No Data Available			Lost[7]
2003	City Council of Tehran	19,015	3.61	41st	Lost[12]
2004	Parliament	74,111	3.76	38th	Lost[13]
2006	City Council of Tehran	No Data Available			Lost[14]
2008	Parliament Round 1	228,571	13.12	37th	Went to Round 2[15]
	Parliament Round 2	191,097	28.47	16th	Lost[16]
2012	Parliament	90,003	4.24	64th	Lost[17]
2013	City Council of Tehran	179,982	8.02	10th	Won[18]
2017	City Council of Tehran	444,635	N/A	27th	Lost[19]