Esenbel ranks 95th by electorate among the 122 localities of Patnos. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 110 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
87 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 55; AK Parti followed with 23. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 12.7 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 48 of 69 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 2.8 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 41 of 58 valid votes were 'no' — 5.3 points above the district average.
At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to DEM Parti with 26 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 7 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: Saadet Partisi took 20 votes to Demokrat Parti's 16 — a margin of just 4 votes. Turnout at the 2023 parliamentary election was 79.1%, 10.4 points above the district average.