A single ballot box served Arakonak at the 2023 parliamentary election, with 118 registered voters; that places it 75th among the 124 localities of Ağrı.
The neighborhood parts ways with the district as a whole. At the 2023 parliamentary election it went to AK Parti with 73 votes, while across Ağrı the leading party was Yeşil Sol Parti, with AK Parti here running 33.7 points above its district average. In the presidential runoff, 88 of 101 valid votes went to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — 40.7 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 83 of 97 valid votes were 'yes' — 31.8 points above the district average.
The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: AK Parti took 52 votes to Saadet Partisi's 46 — a margin of just 6 votes. At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to AK Parti with 31 votes, while Ağrı as a whole was won by DEM Parti. The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2015: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 5 elections. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 50.4%, 18.7 points below the district average.