Payas-Istiklal is one of the localities of Dörtyol; it had 2,809 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 42.8% in the neighborhood at that election. Across Dörtyol the same party stood at 44.0%, putting the neighborhood 1.2 points below the district average. At the 2010 referendum 54.6% of the neighborhood voted 'yes'; across the district that was 51.7%.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 94.9%, 5.0 points above the district average.