A single ballot box served Catmaoluk at the 2023 parliamentary election, with 49 registered voters; that places it 111th among the 122 localities of Patnos.
41 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 27; AK Parti followed with 7. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 15.4 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 27 of 36 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 2.6 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 13 of 20 valid votes were 'no' — level with the district average.
The tightest race came at the 2014 local election: BDP took 26 votes to AK Parti's 23 — a margin of just 3 votes. At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to DEM Parti with 18 votes, while Patnos as a whole was won by AK Parti. 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 52.5%, 15.4 points below the district average.