Aknehir-Akpinar is one of the localities of Samandağ; it had 916 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
CHP took 798 of the 810 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (98.5%). That puts the neighborhood 11.2 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 98.4% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 7.6 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 2011 parliamentary election was 89.5%, 6.5 points above the district average.