With 47 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Esence stands 175th among the 184 localities of Adıyaman, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
45 people voted at that election. AK Parti took the most votes with 30; CHP followed with 6. AK Parti's share here is 24.5 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 39 of 47 valid votes went to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — 21.0 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 39 of 40 valid votes were 'yes' — 33.7 points above the district average.
At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to AK Parti with 28 votes, while Adıyaman as a whole was won by CHP. The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 9 elections. Turnout at the 2023 parliamentary election was 95.7%, 15.5 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2015 parliamentary election: AK Parti took 16 votes to CHP's 6 — a margin of just 10 votes.