Cobandagi is one of the localities of Varto; it had 55 registered voters at the 2015 parliamentary election.
43 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 34; CHP followed with 5. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 6.0 points below the district average. In the presidential election, 49 of 64 valid votes went to Selahattin Demirtaş — 11.6 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 37 of 42 valid votes were 'no' — 2.0 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 75.0%, 8.2 points above the district average. First place has changed hands 3 times here since 2009. The tightest race came at the 2019 local election: CHP took 29 votes to HDP's 23 — a margin of just 6 votes.