Tavla-Merkez is one of the localities of Samandağ; it had 1,375 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
CHP took 1,208 of the 1,264 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (95.6%). That puts the neighborhood 8.2 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 97.5% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 6.7 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 91.2%, 10.8 points above the district average. The picture has not changed since 2009: CHP has finished first in all of the last 4 elections. The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: CHP took 587 votes to DSP's 582 — a margin of just 5 votes.