A number of prominent candidates were not able to win seats in the 
9th parliament elections.
Mostafa Kavakebian one of the outstanding of Reformist figures was not reelected. He was a member of Reformist faction in the Parliament.
Former deputy representative of the Supreme Leader in the Revolutionary Guards, Hojjat al-Eslam Mojtaba Zolnour failed to attend the 9th parliament.
Besides,Parvin Ahmadinejad, the sister of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and long-time Principlist lawmaker Ahmad Nateq-Nouri, brother of former Majlis speaker Ali-Akbar Nateq-Nouri have not won the vote in their constituencies.