Sanlica is one of the localities of Varto. The neighborhood has a single ballot box, and 94 voters were registered there for the 2015 parliamentary election.
93 people voted at that election. Yeşil Sol Parti took the most votes with 91; Saadet Partisi followed with 1. Yeşil Sol Parti's share here is 6.8 points above the district average. In the presidential election, 95 of 95 valid votes went to Selahattin Demirtaş; across the district that share was 88.1%. At the 2017 referendum 48 of 69 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 5 elections (BDP in 2014, Yeşil Sol Parti in 2015, HDP in 2019, DEM Parti in 2024). Turnout at the 2024 local election was 43.5%, 23.3 points below the district average.