With 78 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Derince stands 52nd among the 54 localities of Varto, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
66 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 59; AK Parti followed with 2. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 9.6 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 52 of 62 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 5.3 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 55 of 67 valid votes were 'no' — 4.0 points below 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). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 74.7%, 7.9 points above the district average.