A single ballot box served Akcali at the 2023 parliamentary election, with 181 registered voters; that places it 100th among the 184 localities of Adıyaman.
The neighborhood parts ways with the district as a whole. At the 2023 parliamentary election it went to Yeşil Sol Parti with 100 votes, while across Adıyaman the leading party was AK Parti, with Yeşil Sol Parti here running 58.3 points above its district average. In the presidential runoff, 129 of 134 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 58.3 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 182 of 198 valid votes were 'no' — 55.7 points above the district average.
The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2014: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 7 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). The tightest race came at the 2024 local election: DEM Parti took 55 votes to CHP's 49 — a margin of just 6 votes. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 64.2%, 8.2 points below the district average. At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to DEM Parti with 55 votes, while Adıyaman as a whole was won by CHP.