A number of prominent candidateswere not able to win seats in the 9thparliament elections.
Mostafa Kavakebian one of theoutstandingof Reformist figureswas not reelected.He was a member of Reformist faction in the Parliament.
Formerdeputy representative of the Supreme Leaderinthe 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-Nourihave not won the vote in their constituencies.