Akalan ranks 68th by electorate among the 78 localities of Malazgirt. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 89 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
71 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 63; AK Parti followed with 4. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 16.6 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 53 of 62 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu; across the district that share was 77.6%. At the 2017 referendum 57 of 61 valid votes were 'no'; across the district the 'no' share was 71.5%.
The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2014: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 6 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 62.3%, 11.1 points below the district average.