Uzunpinar-Istiklal is one of the localities of Denizli Merkez; it had 1,222 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 492 of the 1,068 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (46.1%). That puts the neighborhood 2.2 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 61.2% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 7.8 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 97.0%, 9.0 points above the district average. The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections.