With 89 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Akalan stands 68th among the 78 localities of Malazgirt, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
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 — 7.9 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 57 of 61 valid votes were 'no' — 21.9 points above the district average.
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). The electorate shrank from 113 registered voters in 2011 to 89 in 2023 — a change of about 21 percent. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 62.3%, 11.1 points below the district average.