This chapter explains how dons’ authority connects to Jamaica’s system of electoral politics. Political authority relies on the recognition of a ruler’s rightness, both by the ruled and by other rulers. The “horizontal” recognition conferred by elected politicians contributes to dons’ positions as legitimate political figures while dons’ enduring ties to political parties contribute to “vertical” recognition on the part of residents. Where politicians describe dons as representing “the people,” for many residents, their support for a don is entangled with their support for “the party.” As the chapter shows, this three-way relationship between the electorate, the party, and the don comes out clearly at election time. While the connections between dons, political parties, politicians, and voters have often been read as primarily transactional forms of clientelism, this chapter draws on ethnography and visual analysis to emphasize the aesthetic and affective dimensions of these relations.