A single ballot box served Ortakent at the 2023 parliamentary election, with 141 registered voters; that places it 64th among the 124 localities of Ağrı.
122 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 74; AK Parti followed with 27. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 18.8 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 47 of 80 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 5.2 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 45 of 86 valid votes were 'yes' — 1.5 points below the district average.
The electorate shrank from 195 registered voters in 2011 to 141 in 2023 — a change of about 28 percent. The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2014: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 6 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 85.3%, 16.2 points above the district average. At the 2023 parliamentary election 10 of 122 ballots cast were ruled invalid (8.2%), well above the district average.