A single ballot box served Kartal at the 2023 parliamentary election, with 106 registered voters; that places it 66th among the 97 localities of Akdağmadeni.
77 people voted at that election. AK Parti took the most votes with 67; Yeniden Refah followed with 5. AK Parti's share here is 42.6 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 72 of 77 valid votes went to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — 12.3 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 87 of 89 valid votes were 'yes' — 18.5 points above the district average.
At the 2024 local election the neighborhood went to AK Parti with 71 votes, while Akdağmadeni as a whole was won by MHP. The picture has not changed since 2009: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 9 elections. Turnout at the 2023 parliamentary election was 72.6%, 7.3 points below the district average. The electorate shrank from 143 registered voters in 2011 to 106 in 2023 — a change of about 26 percent.