Curali-Esentepe is one of the localities of Çayıralan; it had 645 registered voters at the 2011 parliamentary election.
AK Parti took 111 of the 243 valid votes cast in the neighborhood at that election (45.7%). That puts the neighborhood 10.2 points below the party's district average. At the 2010 referendum 54.2% of the neighborhood voted 'yes' — 6.2 points below the district average.
At the 2009 local election the neighborhood went to MHP with 42.9%, while Çayıralan as a whole was won by AK Parti. Turnout at the 2011 parliamentary election was 38.3%, 24.0 points below the district average. The tightest race came at the 2009 local election: AK Parti took 96 votes to Demokrat Parti's 94 — a margin of just 2 votes.