Election slogans are among the important promises of city council candidates, in order to attract public favor to enter the city hall. However, there is no study that determines the adherence of members of Islamic councils to their election promises. Therefore, the present study tries to examine this issue in the actions of the members of the fifth term of the Islamic Council of Mashhad based on the central slogan "Mashhad, a smart city". The study is descriptive-analytical based on quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis), the statistical population includes all actions of the Fifth Council during 4 years, and the research variables are words related to the smart city based on theoretical foundations. In the first step, by referring to Mashhad City Council's database archive, all the actions of the Fifth Council during 4 years, including 604 resolutions, were stored in the statistical information database of Excel software. In the following, by rereading all the measures, activities related to smartness were identified and categorized based on the 6 dimensions of the smart city. The use of quantitative methods such as descriptive and inferential statistics clarified the general trends of actions. Next, using the "content analysis" method, actions were coded and analyzed. The findings showed that a total of 16.2% of the Council's actions were related to "Smart City" and only 30.6% of the decisions were specific to the fifth period and the rest were the continuation of the activities of the previous periods. In the coding process, by identifying 98 open codes, 51 central codes and 16 selective codes, it was determined that the most attention was paid to smart life and the least to smart economy. Data analysis according to the dimensions of the smart city shows the lack of comprehensive guidelines to guide actions, lack of inclusion, non-compliance with the scientific foundations of the smart city, lack of attention to issues such as population redistribution, safe access to virtual space and public services, optimal energy consumption And economy is knowledge-based, which should be mentioned as the most important challenges in the Council's actions.