Guzelkent is one of the localities of Varto; it had 163 registered voters at the 2015 parliamentary election.
141 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 133; CHP followed with 7. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 3.3 points above the district average. In the presidential election, 149 of 175 valid votes went to Selahattin Demirtaş — 3.0 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 118 of 128 valid votes were 'no' — 6.1 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 78.8%, 12.0 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2014 local election: BDP took 70 votes to CHP's 65 — a margin of just 5 votes. At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to CHP with 106 votes, while Varto as a whole was won by DEM Parti. The electorate shrank from 206 registered voters in 2011 to 163 in 2015 — a change of about 21 percent.