Akyemis ranks 112th by electorate among the 122 localities of Patnos. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 47 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 CHP with 29 votes, while across Patnos the leading party was Yeşil Sol Parti, with CHP here running 58.3 points above its district average. In the presidential runoff, 19 of 37 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 21.1 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 28 of 31 valid votes were 'yes' — 55.7 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2023 parliamentary election was 80.9%, 12.1 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2018 parliamentary election: Yeşil Sol Parti took 21 votes to AK Parti's 19 — a margin of just 2 votes. First place has changed hands 5 times here since 2009. The electorate shrank from 63 registered voters in 2011 to 47 in 2023 — a change of about 25 percent.