Ilica-Yeni Yapan is one of the localities of Kahramanmaras Merkez; it had 736 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 566 of the 706 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (80.2%). That is almost exactly the district average. At the 2010 referendum 92.6% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 3.2 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 96.6%, 7.8 points above the district average. At the 2009 local election the neighborhood went to MHP with 51.1%, while Kahramanmaras Merkez as a whole was won by AK Parti.