Kalecik ranks 37th by electorate among the 54 localities of Varto. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 164 voters were registered there for the 2023 parliamentary election.
129 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 100; AK Parti followed with 16. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 1.3 points below the district average. In the presidential runoff, 88 of 113 valid votes went to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu; across the district that share was 89.2%. At the 2017 referendum 116 of 128 valid votes were 'no'; across the district the 'no' share was 86.1%.
The neighborhood has stayed on the same line since 2014: the same political line has finished first in all of the last 6 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 74.3%, 7.4 points above the district average.