Politicians with disabilities are still few and far between. This underrepresentation is a potential reason for the lower levels of political trust and engagement among the 1 in 5 people who live with a disability. Consequently, we might expect disabled candidates to receive particularly high levels of electoral support from disabled citizens. However, to what extent a unified disability identity exists remains debated, as there is great variation in both impairments and societal barriers. Research on other societal minorities suggests that differences in discrimination and social status as well as social distance perceptions might condition electoral support. This study draws on data from survey experiments with conjoint designs from representative samples of the British and US publics (N=6,000) to examine whether disabled citizens tend to vote for disabled representatives or whether this effect is limited to those with a shared impairment type. It tests the roles of identity and perceptions of shared political preferences. Not only are the findings significant for understanding the underexplored role of disability in electoral politics; they also provide insights and lessons for research on the electoral behaviour of subgroups of other societal minorities, including ethnic and racial minorities and gender and sexual minorities.