Payamli ranks 148th by electorate among the 184 localities of Adıyaman. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 89 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
The neighborhood parts ways with the district as a whole. At the 2023 parliamentary election it went to Yeşil Sol Parti with 41 votes, while across Adıyaman the leading party was AK Parti, with Yeşil Sol Parti here running 38.8 points above its district average. In the presidential runoff, 77 of 79 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 59.5 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 95 of 97 valid votes were 'no' — 61.7 points above the district average.
The tightest race came at the 2024 local election: CHP took 42 votes to DEM Parti's 37 — a margin of just 5 votes. First place has changed hands 5 times here since 2009. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 81.2%, 8.9 points above the district average. The electorate shrank from 140 registered voters in 2011 to 89 in 2023 — a change of about 36 percent.