Dutozu ranks 41st by electorate among the 54 localities of Varto. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 147 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
109 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 88; AK Parti followed with 9. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 2.9 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 85 of 96 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 0.7 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 57 of 74 valid votes were 'no' — 9.1 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 52.1%, 14.8 points below the district average. The electorate grew from 117 registered voters in 2011 to 147 in 2023 — a change of about 26 percent.