Yilanli ranks 24th by electorate among the 54 localities of Varto. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 219 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
182 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 170; AK Parti followed with 5. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 13.5 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 161 of 168 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu; across the district that share was 89.2%. At the 2017 referendum 200 of 211 valid votes were 'no'; across the district the 'no' share was 86.1%.
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). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 55.8%, 11.1 points below the district average.