Kale-Mehmet Akif is one of the localities of Kahramanmaras Merkez; it had 1,128 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 926 of the 1,086 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (85.3%). That puts the neighborhood 5.0 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 98.5% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 9.1 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 97.0%, 8.2 points above the district average. The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections.