Karaali-Ataturk is one of the localities of Hatay Merkez; it had 2,966 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
CHP took 2,434 of the 2,590 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (94.0%). That puts the neighborhood 27.5 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 98.3% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 26.5 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 90.4%, 5.1 points above the district average. The picture has not changed since 2009: CHP has finished first in all of the last 4 elections. At the 2009 local election CHP and DSP finished level, on 390 votes each.