Payas-Kurtul is one of the localities of Dörtyol; it had 2,871 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 40.2% in the neighborhood at that election. Across Dörtyol the same party stood at 44.0%, putting the neighborhood 3.8 points below the district average. At the 2010 referendum 54.1% of the neighborhood voted 'no'; across the district that was 48.3%.