With 34 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Yildirim stands 64th among the 68 localities of Diyadin, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
24 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 20; CHP followed with 3. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 21.3 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 21 of 24 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 13.2 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 18 of 30 valid votes were 'yes' — 28.1 points above the district average.
The electorate shrank from 58 registered voters in 2011 to 34 in 2023 — a change of about 41 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 80.0%, 13.0 points above the district average.