Asagiulupinar-Istiklal is one of the localities of Darende; it had 473 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 232 of the 373 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (62.2%). That puts the neighborhood 9.7 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 88.6% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 4.8 points above the district average.
The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections.