Cezaevi is one of the localities of Antakya; it had 373 registered voters at the 2015 parliamentary election.
The neighborhood parts ways with the district as a whole. At the 2015 parliamentary election it went to CHP with 44.6%, while across Antakya the leading party was AK Parti, with CHP here running 11.3 points above its district average. In the presidential election Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took 42.5% here — 10.9 points below the district average.
The tightest race came at the 2014 local election: AK Parti took 112 votes to CHP's 110 — a margin of just 2 votes. CHP stood at 30.4% at the 2015 parliamentary election and rose to 44.6% by 2015. First place has changed hands 3 times here since 2014.