Kocali ranks 63rd by electorate among the 78 localities of Malazgirt. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 97 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
78 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 49; AK Parti followed with 8. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 4.7 points below the district average. In the presidential runoff, 61 of 74 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 4.9 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 51 of 101 valid votes were 'yes' — 22.0 points above the district average.
The tightest race came at the 2019 local election: HDP took 31 votes to MHP's 18 — a margin of just 13 votes. The electorate shrank from 158 registered voters in 2011 to 97 in 2023 — a change of about 39 percent. At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to AK Parti with 31 votes, while Malazgirt as a whole was won by DEM Parti. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 49.5%, 23.9 points below the district average.