Diktepeler is one of the localities of Varto; it had 175 registered voters at the 2018 parliamentary election.
167 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 134; CHP followed with 13. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 1.6 points above the district average. In the presidential election, 102 of 161 valid votes went to Selahattin Demirtaş — 1.4 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 42 of 45 valid votes were 'no' — 7.2 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 57 registered voters in 2011 to 175 in 2018 — a change of about 207 percent. The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: DTP took 17 votes to AK Parti's 13 — a margin of just 4 votes. Turnout at the 2018 parliamentary election was 95.4%, 10.0 points above the district average.