Elmali ranks 25th by electorate among the 34 localities of Kadışehri. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 130 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
119 people voted at that election. AK Parti took the most votes with 94; MHP followed with 17. AK Parti's share here is 31.8 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 121 of 121 valid votes went to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — 13.1 points above the district average. At the 2017 referendum 119 of 120 valid votes were 'yes' — 14.6 points above the district average.
The electorate shrank from 191 registered voters in 2011 to 130 in 2023 — a change of about 32 percent. Turnout at the 2019 local election was 86.0%, 6.1 points below the district average. The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2015: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 5 elections. The tightest race came at the 2014 local election: Saadet Partisi took 73 votes to AK Parti's 63 — a margin of just 10 votes.