At the 2023 parliamentary election Gazitepe had 342 registered voters, placing it 118th among the 183 localities of Şahinbey.
The neighborhood parts ways with the district as a whole. At the 2023 parliamentary election it went to CHP with 32.4%, while across Şahinbey the leading party was AK Parti, with CHP here running 11.3 points above its district average. The same divide shows in the presidential runoff: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu took 50.9% here, 12.9 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 87.3%, 19.7 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2023 parliamentary election: CHP took 100 votes to AK Parti's 95 — a margin of just 5 votes.