Kayalidere ranks 17th by electorate among the 54 localities of Varto; it had 357 registered voters at the 2023 parliamentary election.
Yeşil Sol Parti took 238 of the 261 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (91.2%). That puts the neighborhood 8.6 points above the party's district average. In the presidential runoff Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu took 94.2% here — 4.9 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 94.1% of the neighborhood voted 'no' — 8.0 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 50.0%, 16.8 points below the district average. The electorate grew from 60 registered voters in 2011 to 357 in 2023 — a change of about 495 percent. The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2014: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 7 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). Yeşil Sol Parti stood at 100.0% at the 2015 parliamentary election and fell to 91.2% by 2023.