Abstract
It is almost axiomatic in the study of elections that within the context of the family household, the vote is an expression of individual preference. This article questions how widely this assumption of individual voting applies to actual household members around the world by taking notice of two empirical anomalies that are particularly salient to understanding the electoral behavior of women: controlled voting (the dictating of women’s and younger men’s vote choices by senior male household members) and split voting (the deliberate allocation of a family’s votes across two or more candidates). Controlled voting and split voting complicate assumptions that within the context of the family household, individual voters are always sovereign over their vote choices or the most enlightening units of analysis.
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