With 152 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Baltas stands 40th among the 54 localities of Varto, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
131 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 100; İYİ Parti followed with 14. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 6.2 points below the district average. In the presidential runoff, 120 of 127 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 5.3 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 31 of 39 valid votes were 'no' — 6.6 points below the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 76.5%, 9.6 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 grew from 64 registered voters in 2011 to 152 in 2023 — a change of about 138 percent. The tightest race came at the 2024 local election: DEM Parti took 20 votes to AK Parti's 17 — a margin of just 3 votes.