Menderes is one of the localities of Kahramanmaras Merkez; it had 4,602 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 2,542 of the 3,830 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (66.4%). That puts the neighborhood 13.9 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 71.0% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 18.4 points below the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 77.8%, 6.3 points below the district average. The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections.