Beydagi-Balikdere is one of the localities of Malatya Merkez; it had 1,196 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 576 of the 1,122 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (51.3%). That puts the neighborhood 19.4 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 54.4% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 22.5 points below the district average.
First place has changed hands 3 times here since 2009. Turnout at the 2009 local election was 95.4%, 13.5 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: Demokrat Parti took 172 votes to AK Parti's 164 — a margin of just 8 votes.