Sahnahan-Karsiyaka is one of the localities of Malatya Merkez; it had 488 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 444 of the 468 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (94.9%). That puts the neighborhood 24.2 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 96.4% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 19.5 points above the district average.
The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections. Turnout at the 2009 local election was 97.7%, 15.8 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: AK Parti took 87 votes to Saadet Partisi's 84 — a margin of just 3 votes.