Arizona Online Voting Contests

12News Friday Night Fever Sweet Play of the Week

Phoenix · 12News (KPNX) / Sweet James Accident Attorneys

The 12News (KPNX) Friday Night Fever weekly fan vote for Arizona's best high school football play, sponsored by Sweet James Accident Attorneys. Each week during the season three "Sweet Plays" are shortlisted from games across the state, fans vote for the winner, and the weekly winners advance toward the season-end Sweet Play of the Year and a $5,000 scholarship.

12News Friday Night Fever Sweet Play of the Year

Phoenix · 12News (KPNX) / Sweet James Accident Attorneys

The season-ending fan vote in 12News (KPNX) Friday Night Fever, Arizona's high school football highlight program sponsored by Sweet James Accident Attorneys. Eleven weekly Sweet Play of the Week winners from across the state go head to head on one ballot; online voting runs through early December, and the winner is revealed at the annual Friday Night Fever Awards Show with a $5,000 scholarship attached.

Arizona High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Arizona · SBLive / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Weekly statewide fan poll sponsored by WaFd Bank and run by SBLive / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/arizona, recognising standout AIA athletes across all six enrollment divisions statewide. Free to vote, no account required, closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time each week.

Arizona High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

The SBLive / High School on SI weekly fan vote for Arizona prep boys basketball, sponsored by WaFd Bank. Editors compile nominees from across the AIA's seven classifications; anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — with a winner announced Monday.

Arizona High School Player of the Year

Statewide Arizona · SBLive / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Annual sport-specific fan vote hosted by High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/arizona, recognising the best AIA high school player in each sport at the end of every season. Free to vote, no account needed. Run by SBLive under the Sports Illustrated umbrella.

Arizona Republic Athlete of the Week

Phoenix · The Arizona Republic / azcentral (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly Phoenix-metro fan poll at azcentral.com, presented by Diamond Kitchen & Bath, recognising standout AIA prep athletes across Greater Phoenix each school-sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account required. Administered by The Arizona Republic (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) — the largest Gannett daily in Arizona.

Arizona Republic High School Football Play of the Week

Phoenix · The Arizona Republic / azcentral.com

The Arizona Republic / azcentral.com weekly fan vote for the best high school football play in Arizona. Nominees are selected by Republic sports staff across all AIA divisions; fans vote via an embedded Poll.fm widget that closes Wednesday at 5 p.m. Arizona time — the shortest active window of any comparable state prep football poll.

2025 Courier Cares Christmas Lighting Contest

Prescott Daily Courier invites Prescott, Arizona readers to vote for their favourite holiday light displays in the Courier Cares Christmas Lighting Contest. The ballot runs on Second Street, and the confirmed 2025 voting window covered November 28 through December 20, 2025. A 2024 edition is also confirmed, so this is a recurring seasonal program rather than a one-time promotion.

2025 MVDN Best of

The 2025 MVDN Best of is a readers' choice ballot from River City Newspapers, hosted on Second Street for the Lake Havasu City, Arizona market. Voting ran from May 15 to June 18, 2025 and has closed. Earlier coverage dates the programme to 2024 as well, and a related 2026 MVDN Best of Readers Choice promotion ran from May 1 to June 25, 2026 under the same organizer. Category details and per-supporter limits are not printed outside the ballot page itself.

2026 Best of Sedona Kudos

Best of Sedona Kudos is the Sedona readers'-choice ballot that Prescott Daily Courier runs in Arizona, hosted on Second Street. Unlike the CommunityVotes city ballots, it comes from a daily newspaper and allows one vote per category in total rather than daily voting. The 2026 window ran July 8 through August 8 and is closed. The 2025 and 2026 runs are both confirmed, and a 2027 edition is the obvious follow-up on that cadence.

2026 Best of Verde Valley

The Prescott Daily Courier runs the 2026 Best of Verde Valley readers-choice ballot on Second Street. Voting ran July 8 through August 7 in the 2026 cycle, and the platform listing gives August 8 as the close. Supporters cast one vote per category for the whole run. Confirmed editions cover 2025 and 2026. Category names and eligibility details are not printed alongside the ballot.

2026 Prescott Readers' Choice

The 2026 Prescott Readers' Choice is a best-of ballot for Prescott, Arizona, run by the Prescott Daily Courier on the Second Street platform. Voting for the 2026 edition ran from March 2 through May 23, 2026 and has closed. The organizer's own pages allow one vote per day, per category, across a wide roster of local business categories. A 2025 edition on the same platform confirms the program runs more than once.

A Taste of AZ People's Choice Award

Downtown Tempe presents A Taste of AZ People's Choice Award, an honor decided by community ballot alongside the Tempe Festival of the Arts in Tempe, Arizona. The ballot sits on downtowntempe.com, the organizer's release page for the festival. Edition years run 2025 and 2026, and the 2025 festival filled Mill Avenue Dec. 5-7. The voting window, category list and vote rules are not printed beside the award, so check the current ballot before planning anything.

Arizona Daily Star Readers' Choice

Arizona Daily Star's annual Readers' Choice awards for Tucson, run on the Second Street platform across 200+ categories in ten industry groups. The 2025 cycle drew 44,000+ nominated businesses, with daily voting online or by text to 520-214-8683 from August 15 through August 25, closing with a gala event.

Art & Fable Puzzle Company People's Choice Award

The Art & Fable Puzzle Company People's Choice Award is the public-vote strand of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, filed under Arizona and served straight from the prize's own domain. Public voting in the 2026 cycle opens on 2 September and closes on 14 September 2026. Confirmed editions run from 2023 through 2026, and the ballot asks visitors to back a favourite work among the prize's finalists.

Avondale Community Excellence Awards

The Avondale Community Excellence Awards, known as the ACE Awards, are run by the City of Avondale in Avondale, Arizona. Established in 2020 and formerly the Leading EDGE Awards, the program honors local businesses. The 2026 cycle opened nominations on January 14, with People's Choice round 1 closing January 23 and round 2 voting starting January 27.

AZ Big Travel Awards

The AZ Big Travel Awards is a public-vote program run by AZ Big Media on azbigmedia.com, open to favorites across Arizona. The 2025 ballot's voting closed Nov. 30, 2025, and 2025 and 2026 are the two confirmed edition years. The publisher framed the program as a returning feature. Rules such as any ceiling on repeat voting or eligibility text go unstated on the ballot page, so supporters should read the live form before voting.

Best of Arizona 2026

Green Living Magazine runs the Best of Arizona 2026 Awards, a public vote honoring sustainability leaders across Arizona. Nominations stay open through July 31, 2026, and voting runs July 15 through August 7, 2026 on the publisher's own ballot page. The program's confirmed editions span 2024 through 2026. Supporters who care about green businesses in the state can vote directly on the live ballot, and the rules governing repeat voting are set by Green Living itself rather than by any outside platform.

Best Of Awards | Arizona Bride

Arizona Bride magazine runs Best Of Awards, a statewide readers'-choice ballot for Arizona wedding vendors, at azbridemag.com/best-of/. Four confirmed seasons stand behind the program, 2023 through 2026, and Arizona Bride itself calls the awards an annual fixture. The current 2026 season sits on that page beside its three predecessors, but the site does not spell out nomination or voting dates, a vendor category list, or a per-voter limit.

Best of Flagstaff (Best of Flag)

Flagstaff, Arizona's Best of Flagstaff (Best of Flag) is run by the Arizona Daily Sun at azdailysun.com. Three confirmed editions back the program, 2024 through 2026, and the newspaper's own pages confirm an October 1 to October 31 voting window after a Top Picks nomination call. Neither a full category roster nor a per-voter limit appears on those pages.

Best of Havasu

River City Newspapers runs Best of Havasu at havasunews.secondstreetapp.com, an independent ballot for Lake Havasu City, Arizona, unlike four of its Arizona siblings that answer to the CommunityVotes network instead. Four confirmed editions back the program, 2023 through 2026, with the most recent window running June 15 through August 1, 2026, now closed. The organizer keeps the category count and the per-voter rule off the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Havasu 2026

Best of Havasu 2026 is the readers' choice ballot River City Newspapers runs for Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Voting happened on Second Street between June 15 and August 1, 2026, and that window has closed. Confirmed editions cover every year from 2023 through 2026. The category list and any cap on repeat voting are not published with the listing, so the details should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Phoenix

Phoenix New Times' annual readers' poll across roughly 100 categories in Arts, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Shopping, Services, and Cannabis, with public online voting after an open nomination round.

Best of Sedona Kudos

Sedona · Prescott Daily Courier

Best of Sedona Kudos is Prescott Daily Courier's readers'-choice ballot for the Sedona market, hosted on Second Street at dcourier.secondstreetapp.com. Second Street's own listing shows two years for this program, 2025 and 2026, with the 2026 stretch running July 8 through August 8 before closing. No category name and no per-voter rule appear on that page past those dates; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of the 'Burg (Wickenburg Sun)

Wickenburg · Wickenburg Sun

Wickenburg, Arizona businesses compete each year in Best of the 'Burg, published by the Wickenburg Sun under River City Newspapers and hosted on Second Street at havasunews.secondstreetapp.com. Four editions have run so far, spanning 2023 to 2026, and the latest round opened July 13 and closed August 19. Two specifics stay off the page - the shape of its category lineup, and whether repeat voting from one supporter faces any limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before the next round opens.

Best of the Burg 2026

Best of the Burg 2026 is a readers' choice ballot for Lake Havasu City, Arizona, published by River City Newspapers and hosted on Second Street. Four editions have run, spanning 2023 through 2026. The 2026 round opened July 13 and closed August 19. The page below explains who runs it, how a supporter votes, and how it sits beside Best of Havasu and the CommunityVotes ballots elsewhere in Arizona.

Best of the Desert AZ Community's Choice Awards

Phoenix · Gannett / USA TODAY Network local paper

Best of the Desert AZ Community's Choice Awards covers the East and West Phoenix Valley through the USA TODAY Network's Your Choice Awards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/phoenix. Two confirmed editions have run so far, 2025 and 2026; the 2026 cycle opened nominations December 10-31, 2025, moved the top five nominees per category into a public voting round February 11-25, 2026, and closed with winners announced May 15, 2026. A category roster and per-voter rules are not published beyond that; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of the Valley

PHOENIX magazine's long-running Greater Phoenix Valley readers' choice poll, 25 years old in 2025, with a two-category vote cap and local-business-only eligibility for winners.

Best of Tucson

Tucson Weekly's annual readers' poll, the metro's oldest and most comprehensive, spanning roughly 250+ categories with a mid-May through June 30 nomination round followed by public voting into late August.

Best of Verde Valley

Verde Valley · Prescott Daily Courier

Best of Verde Valley is Prescott Daily Courier's readers'-choice ballot for the Verde Valley market, run through Second Street at dcourier.secondstreetapp.com. Two years are confirmed for this program, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 stretch closed August 8 after opening July 8. Nothing published behind that window names a category or sets a per-voter rule; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Avondale

CommunityVotes Avondale is the community awards ballot for Avondale, Arizona, published on the CommunityVotes platform with a local partner. Editions are confirmed in each of 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 round has closed with winners announced. This page covers who is behind the ballot, its confirmed timeline, how a supporter votes, and what stays unpublished.

CommunityVotes Buckeye

Buckeye · CommunityVotes Buckeye

CommunityVotes Buckeye is the CommunityVotes network's nominate-then-vote business ballot for Buckeye, Arizona, at buckeye.communityvotes.com. The live 2026 page confirms a nomination window of May 17 through September 13. Only two of the last three years, 2024 and 2026, are confirmed as separate cycles; no category list or per-voter limit surfaces past that stretch so far. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Chandler

Chandler · CommunityVotes Chandler

CommunityVotes Chandler has confirmed three straight nomination cycles, 2024 through 2026, on the CommunityVotes network's dedicated page at chandler.communityvotes.com for Chandler, Arizona. The live 2026 window runs May 17 through September 13. Neither a category list nor a per-voter cap turns up past that stretch. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Flagstaff

Flagstaff, Arizona's business finalists compete on CommunityVotes' own Flagstaff subdomain, flagstaff.communityvotes.com, part of a network that has run Community Voting awards platforms for media markets since 2014. Two editions are independently confirmed for this specific market, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 round had already closed by the time its results page went up in May 2026. A category index a business could check ahead of time is not published on that page, and neither are calendar-day dates for whichever round comes next.

CommunityVotes Gilbert

Gilbert · CommunityVotes Gilbert

CommunityVotes Gilbert runs its own dedicated business ballot for Gilbert, Arizona, still legally a town despite population growth that rivals many Arizona cities, at gilbert.communityvotes.com. The live 2026 page confirms a nomination window from May 17 through September 13, the third straight confirmed year alongside 2024 and 2025. Past that window, neither a category breakdown nor a vote limit is published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Glendale

CommunityVotes Glendale is the community voting awards platform for Glendale, Arizona, operated by CommunityVotes alongside a local partner. Its ballot sits at glendale.communityvotes.com and the 2026 round carried a May 2026 voting window that has since closed, with winners posted on the same site. The ballot spans categories across all community sectors, and 2025 plus 2026 stand as the confirmed editions on an annual rhythm.

CommunityVotes Goodyear

CommunityVotes Goodyear is the community voting awards site for Goodyear, Arizona, operated by CommunityVotes alongside a local partner. Ballot years on file include 2024 and 2025, with 2026 the latest, and the 2026 cycle closed in May with winners posted. The ballot lives at goodyear.communityvotes.com, where residents pick their local favorites annually.

CommunityVotes Peoria AZ

CommunityVotes Peoria AZ asks Peoria, Arizona readers to nominate favorite local businesses on the CommunityVotes network's own address, peoriaaz.communityvotes.com. Two nomination cycles stand confirmed, 2024 and 2025, and the window now running opened May 17 and closes September 13. Past that stretch the page stays quiet, offering no category roster, no per-voter limit, no voting-stage date. Each gap is a live-ballot question, not a settled fact here.

CommunityVotes Scottsdale

CommunityVotes Scottsdale is the dedicated community voting awards ballot for Scottsdale, Arizona, put on by CommunityVotes alongside a local partner on the CommunityVotes platform. Confirmed editions span 2024 plus 2026, with the 2026 voting window set for June 24 through July 17, 2026. The page brands the program as Scottsdale's own Community Voting Awards Platform, separate from Valley-wide contests, and residents vote their favorites to the top each year. Category details and vote-frequency rules are not printed in the material held here.

CommunityVotes Surprise

CommunityVotes Surprise invites Surprise, Arizona readers to nominate favorite local businesses at surprise.communityvotes.com, run through a local CommunityVotes partner. Three nomination cycles are confirmed, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and nominations are open right now, May 17 through September 13. Past that window, no category roster, no per-voter limit, no voting-stage date sit on the page; each remains a live-ballot question rather than a settled fact.

CommunityVotes Tempe

Tempe · CommunityVotes Tempe

Where does a Tempe supporter actually go to back a local favorite in CommunityVotes Tempe? tempe.communityvotes.com, run through a local CommunityVotes partner rather than a Tempe city agency. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2021 and 2025, four years apart rather than back to back, and the live page keeps its current nomination window open May 17 through September 13. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle for anything past that window.

CommunityVotes Yuma

Yuma, Arizona hosts CommunityVotes Yuma, run through a local CommunityVotes partner at yuma.communityvotes.com. Confirmed history runs two editions deep, 2024 and 2026, and the platform's own page lists a nomination period of December 3 through March 23. One archived December 2024 ballot page names a Home Builders and Contractors category with Architecture and Design beneath it. Beyond that pairing, a full current category roster and any per-voter rule are not published.

Courier Cares Christmas Lighting Contest

Prescott, Arizona's Prescott Daily Courier runs the Courier Cares Christmas Lighting Contest on Second Street at dcourier.secondstreetapp.com, a user-submitted photo contest rather than a business ballot. The confirmed 2025 window ran November 28 through December 20, the organizer's second confirmed year after 2024. Unlike the Prescott Daily Courier's other Arizona programs, this one asks residents to submit photos of their own holiday lighting rather than nominate a business. No category list or vote limit is published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Experience AZ

AZ Big Media's statewide readers' choice ballot for Arizona travel and experience categories, drawing thousands of votes from travelers, locals, and adventure seekers, documented in a 2025 lifestyle feature at azbigmedia.com.

Foodist Awards

The Foodist Awards celebrate Arizona food and beverage, run by The Arizona Restaurant Association. Nominations for the 2019 edition ran through January 2019, and confirmed editions also ran in 2018, 2024 and 2025. The public nominates, then a panel of industry experts chooses finalists and winners. The program runs on foodistawards.com, the association's own domain.

Foothills Animal Rescue Annual Photo Contest

Foothills Animal Rescue, an animal welfare organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, runs an annual pet photo contest that doubles as a fundraiser. The 2026 edition collected entries and public votes from June 1 through June 30, 2026, hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. Confirmed edition years run back to 2022, and winning pets are placed in the rescue's 2027 calendar.

Illuminate Sedona! Audience Choice

Sedona International Film Festival runs Illuminate Sedona! Audience Choice, a best-of style public ballot for the Sedona, Arizona film community, presented with the ILLUMINATE Film Festival on the festival's own website. Confirmed editions run from 2020 through 2026, and the festival season sits in February. The page does not print exact ballot dates, a category roster or a per-supporter rule, so supporters and nominees check the live ballot each cycle.

Prescott Readers' Choice (Prescott Daily Courier)

The Prescott Daily Courier publishes Prescott Readers' Choice at dcourier.secondstreetapp.com, a Second Street ballot for Prescott, Arizona. Nominating and voting share one window rather than running as two separate stages, and for 2026 that window opened March 2 and closed May 23. Two editions back the program so far, 2025 and 2026. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since the Courier's page is the only place either detail will actually surface.

Purple Paws Calendar Contest

The Purple Paws Calendar Contest is a dog photo fundraiser run by Sojourner Center of Phoenix, Arizona, with GoGo Photo Contest carrying the ballot. Confirmed editions run in 2025 and 2026. The 2025 cycle ran its dog entry and voting period from November 1 through November 30, 2025, with each dollar cast equal to one vote. The page below collects the confirmed facts, the voting steps and the rules questions supporters ask most.

Ranking Arizona

Annual AZ Big Media statewide business readers-choice survey, "Ranking Arizona: The Best of Arizona Business," with public online voting across 100+ industry sub-categories.

readers' choice

PHOENIX magazine runs the readers' choice ballot, the reader-facing half of its Best of the Valley Readers' Picks programme for metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Confirmed editions ran in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2026 public vote ran April 1-30, 2026, under a stated rule of one vote per day per category, with winners published in the July/August issue of PHOENIX.

Readers' Choice Awards

Phoenix Home & Garden runs the Readers' Choice Awards, a public-vote ballot published on phgmag.com itself for Phoenix, Arizona readers. Four consecutive editions are confirmed, 2023 through 2026. Nominations open October 1 and voting on finalists runs November 1 through November 30. The ballot sits at the magazine's readers' choice tag page, and the category roster is not printed there.

SCHOA Christmas Lights Contest

SCHOA runs the Merry and Bright Christmas Lights Contest, a holiday decorations ballot for its members in Sun City, Arizona. Community voting for the 2025 cycle runs from Dec. 15 through Dec. 28, with registration open from Nov. 4 through Dec. 4. Displays compete in named categories including the Griswold, the Go Big or Go Home, the Gingerbread and the Small but Sparkly. The ballot lives on the association's own site, and each household casts one vote per person.

Yuma's Best

Yuma's Best is the best-of ballot Yuma Events runs for Yuma, Arizona businesses, hosted at yuma.events on a domain the organizer controls. The page marks the program's 28th year and sets voting from December 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025. Supporters may vote once per category across the ballot's printed category list, and businesses nominate themselves through a form before the ballot opens.

16th Annual Cover Dog Contest, presented by Humane Society of Southern Arizona & Tucson Lifestyle Magazine

The Cover Dog Contest is a dog-photo fundraiser run by the Humane Society of Southern Arizona with Tucson Lifestyle Magazine. The 2026 edition opens for submissions at 12:01 AM Mountain Time on Monday, April 27, 2026 and closes at 11:59:59 PM Mountain Time on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. It is hosted on GoGo Photo Contest, and each dollar raised counts as one vote.

The Arizona Pet Project Calendar Contest

The Arizona Pet Project built its Arizona Pet Project Calendar Contest with GoGo Photo Contest, live at gogophotocontest.com/theazpp2026. Two confirmed editions cover 2025 and 2026, with the dated 2025 voting period running March 29 through May 17. The top 13 vote-getters win a spot in the printed calendar, and the single leading entry wins the cover photo. Category rules and a vote limit stay unpublished; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.