At the 2023 parliamentary election Yesilyurt had 1,104 registered voters, placing it 84th 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 36.1%, while across Şahinbey the leading party was AK Parti, with CHP here running 15.1 points above its district average. The same divide shows in the presidential runoff: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu took 56.6% here, 18.6 points above the district average.
The tightest race came at the 2024 local election: CHP took 297 votes to AK Parti's 292 — a margin of just 5 votes. Turnout at the 2023 parliamentary election was 90.6%, 5.0 points above the district average.