Asagiulupinar-Karatas is one of the localities of Darende; it had 518 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 196 of the 397 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (49.4%). That puts the neighborhood 22.6 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 78.3% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 5.5 points below the district average.
Turnout at the 2009 local election was 76.4%, 5.3 points below the district average. The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections. The tightest race came at the 2011 parliamentary election: AK Parti took 196 votes to MHP's 184 — a margin of just 12 votes.