Payas-Yenisehir is one of the localities of Dörtyol; it had 1,390 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 492 of the 1,216 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (40.5%). That puts the neighborhood 3.5 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 50.6% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 2.2 points above the district average.