Kalburcu ranks 121st by electorate among the 184 localities of Adıyaman. The village has a single ballot box, and 139 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
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; across the district that share was 62.0%.
The picture has not changed since 2018: AK Parti has finished first in all of the last 4 elections. At the 2024 local election the village went to AK Parti with 44 votes, while Adıyaman as a whole was won by CHP. Turnout at the 2024 local election was 95.1%, 22.8 points above the district average.