Dursunlu-Merkez is one of the localities of Hatay Merkez; it had 4,562 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
CHP took 3,660 of the 3,958 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (92.5%). That puts the neighborhood 26.0 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 96.0% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 24.3 points above the district average.
The picture has not changed since 2009: CHP has finished first in all of the last 4 elections. Turnout at the 2009 local election was 91.5%, 6.2 points above the district average.