Payas-Istiklal is one of the localities of Dörtyol; it had 2,809 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 1,059 of the 2,474 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (42.8%). That puts the neighborhood 1.2 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 54.6% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 2.9 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 94.9%, 5.0 points above the district average.