Bostanici-Safak is one of the localities of Van Merkez; it had 3,964 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
independents took 80.9% in the neighborhood at that election. Across Van Merkez the same party stood at 63.4%, putting the neighborhood 17.5 points above the district average. At the 2010 referendum 96.0% of the neighborhood voted 'yes'; across the district that was 94.5%.