A single ballot box served Kalburcu at the 2023 parliamentary election, with 139 registered voters; that places it 121st among the 184 localities of Adıyaman.
123 people voted at that election. AK Parti took the most votes with 80; Yeşil Sol Parti followed with 14. AK Parti's share here is 22.5 points above the district average. In the presidential runoff, 95 of 120 valid votes went to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — 17.2 points above the district average.
Turnout at the 2024 local election was 95.1%, 22.8 points above the district average. The tightest race came at the 2024 local election: AK Parti took 44 votes to CHP's 35 — a margin of just 9 votes. At the 2024 local election the village went to AK Parti with 44 votes, while Adıyaman as a whole was won by CHP. The picture has not changed since 2018: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections.