Elaheh Rastgou

Elaheh Rastgou (Persian: الهه راستگو‎, 'The Veracious Goddess') is an Iranian conservative-minded reformist politician who is currently an outgoing member of City Council of Tehran. She was formerly a Member of Parliament.

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.In 2000 elections, she ran for a seat in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr as Freethinkers' Pinnacle Party's candidate and was defeated. Backed by reformist 'Coalition For Iran', 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.

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

2013 allegiance switch

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. Following the vote, she was 'fired' from Islamic Labour Party because allegedly 'breaking her oath to vote for the reformist mayor'.

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

Electoral history

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