With 121 voters on the roll at the 2023 parliamentary election, Kayalik stands 45th among the 54 localities of Varto, and its votes were cast at one ballot box.
82 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 47; AK Parti followed with 16. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 23.1 points below the district average. In the presidential runoff, 48 of 73 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu — 23.5 points below the district average. At the 2017 referendum 56 of 84 valid votes were 'no' — 19.4 points below the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 77.7%, 10.8 points above the district average. The electorate grew from 92 registered voters in 2011 to 121 in 2023 — a change of about 32 percent. 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 tightest race came at the 2019 local election: HDP took 53 votes to AK Parti's 51 — a margin of just 2 votes.