With 278 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Karaali stands 30th among the 78 localities of Malazgirt, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
188 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 148; AK Parti followed with 9. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 7.5 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 165 of 184 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 12.1 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 79 of 104 valid votes were 'no' — 4.4 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 54.0%, 19.4 points below the district average. The tightest race came at the 2024 local election: DEM Parti took 38 votes to AK Parti's 28 — a margin of just 10 votes. The electorate grew from 199 registered voters in 2011 to 278 in 2023 — a change of about 40 percent. The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2014: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 7 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024).