Tastepe is one of the localities of Malatya Merkez; it had 7,552 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 5,680 of the 6,526 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (87.0%). That puts the neighborhood 16.3 points above the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 91.1% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 14.2 points above the district average.
The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections.