Editing Rustavi (section)

===Mayor===
[[File:Rustavi georgia.JPG|right|thumb|270px|Statue of [[Shota Rustaveli]]]]
[[File:Panoramic view of the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant. 1957.jpg|270px|thumb|view of the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant. 1957]]
The most recent mayoral election was held on 2 October 2021, with a runoff on 30 October which Nino Latsabidze ([[Georgian Dream]]) won from Davit Kirkitadze ([[United National Movement (Georgia)|United National Movement]]).<ref name="agenda-gvote21">{{Cite web | url=https://agenda.ge/elections/2021/dist/index.html? | title=Interactive results 2021 municipal elections | accessdate=2021-03-31 | work=Agenda.ge | language=en }}</ref>

The results were as follows:
<onlyinclude>{{Election results
|cand1='''Nino Latsabidze'''|party1=[[Georgian Dream]]|votes1=22352|votes1_2=27298
|cand2=David Kirkitadze|party2=[[United National Movement (Georgia)|United National Movement]]|votes2=21706|votes2_2=23523
|cand3=Beqa Liluashvili|party3=[[For Georgia]]|votes3=3401
|cand4=Tornike Arevadze|party4=[[Alliance of Patriots of Georgia|Alliance of Patriots]]|votes4=1231
|cand5=Vazha Bakhturidze|party5=[[European Democrats (Georgia)|European Democrats]]|votes5=751
|cand6=Elguja Kochiashvili|party6="Whites"|votes6=408
|invalid=2308 |invalid2=2205
|totalvote=52212|totalvote2=53037
|electorate=106895||electorate2=106869
|source=[https://results.cec.gov.ge/#/ka-ge/election_45/dashboard CEC], [https://results.cec.gov.ge/#/ka-ge/election_46 CEC]
}}</onlyinclude>

'''Previously elected mayors of Rustavi'''{{refn|Prior to the 2014 Local self-governance reform, mayors were elected by the city assembly.}}
* Irakli Tabagua ([[Georgian Dream|GD]]) (2017–2021)
* Davit Jikia ([[Georgian Dream|GD]]) (2014–2017)