Kusluk is one of the localities of Varto; it had 22 registered voters at the 2015 parliamentary election.
19 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 14; CHP followed with 4. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 17.4 points below the district average. In the presidential election, 24 of 29 valid votes went to Ekmeleddin Mehmet İhsanoğlu — 74.5 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 17 of 19 valid votes were 'no' — 3.4 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 46.8%, 20.0 points below the district average. The tightest race came at the 2019 local election: CHP took 19 votes to AK Parti's 15 — a margin of just 4 votes. At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to CHP with 8 votes, while Varto as a whole was won by DEM Parti.