Afsar-Yeni is one of the localities of Bala; it had 789 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 309 of the 603 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (51.2%). That puts the neighborhood 12.4 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 61.2% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 12.9 points below the district average.
At the 2009 local election the neighborhood went to Saadet Partisi with 32.3%, while Bala as a whole was won by AK Parti. First place has changed hands 3 times here since 2009. The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: MHP took 314 votes to Saadet Partisi's 305 — a margin of just 9 votes.