Karakuyu ranks 71st by electorate among the 85 localities of Tutak. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 43 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
34 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 24; AK Parti followed with 4. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 18.9 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 26 of 32 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 22.9 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 27 of 32 valid votes were 'no' — 40.9 points above the district average.
The electorate shrank from 54 registered voters in 2011 to 43 in 2023 — a change of about 20 percent. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 46.5%, 27.3 points below the district average. 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).