Yukariesen ranks 25th by electorate among the 41 localities of Taşlıçay. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 138 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
84 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 55; AK Parti followed with 15. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 6.6 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 72 of 95 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 7.0 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 68 of 132 valid votes were 'yes' — 9.7 points above the district average.
The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2015: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 6 elections (Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 96.6%, 17.0 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2019 local election: HDP took 73 votes to AK Parti's 61 — a margin of just 12 votes. The electorate shrank from 217 registered voters in 2011 to 138 in 2023 — a change of about 36 percent.