Ocakli is one of the localities of Varto; it had 187 registered voters at the 2015 parliamentary election.
156 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 147; BBP followed with 2. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 6.3 points above the district average. In the presidential election, 165 of 172 valid votes went to Selahattin Demirtaş — 7.8 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 103 of 140 valid votes were 'no' — 12.5 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 5 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024).