Love Monterey Park Community Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Love Monterey Park Community Choice Awards is and who runs it

The Love Monterey Park Community Choice Awards is a resident vote in Monterey Park, California. The City of Monterey Park runs it, and the ballot appears on the city's official website under its economic development pages. The awards ask residents to name the businesses and people they love most in the city, which makes the program a local civic vote rather than a judged competition.

The contest is filed under best-of on this site. Because the city hosts the ballot itself, the category headings, the vote and any results notice all come from one municipal source. The table below summarizes the basic facts a resident or a local business owner needs before voting.

When did the Monterey Park community awards run, and what is confirmed?

Confirmed editions

Editions for 2025 and 2026 are confirmed on the city's ballot pages. The 2026 award categories are the current set, and the program title describes the awards as the 2nd Annual Community Choice Awards. The awards follow a yearly pattern, so a 2027 round is anticipated, though no 2027 date is printed.

What the city leaves unstated

The city page gives no opening day and no closing day for the round, and it does not print a per-person vote limit. Those open dates should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a resident cast a vote on the city ballot today?

The category structure

The ballot asks residents who they love most in Monterey Park, and it breaks that question into award categories. Residents who want the complete category set should open the city page directly, since the headings are not reproduced here. The 2026 round uses that wording as its prompt, so each category is a question a resident can answer by naming a local favorite. A resident reads the category heading, chooses an entry and submits the choice for that category.

The public vote is the only mechanic the city page describes. No judging step appears, and no panel is named as part of the process.

A business that wants practical ideas for reaching customers beyond the ballot can read our supporter overview.

How do these awards sit beside the other California best-of contests?

Among the California listings on this site, the Monterey Park awards are a civic ballot run by a city. Several neighbouring best-of ballots are run for other markets and by other publishers, and the table below sets them side by side. The 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest is also filed under best-of, but it is a calendar entry rather than a civic ballot.

A reader comparing California ballots can start with the Best of Marin guide and the Silicon Valley ballot, then return to the state overview at California contests. The table lists each sibling with its route.

How can a Monterey Park business support its own entry honestly?

A business that wants residents to vote for it in the Monterey Park awards is working inside a civic vote, so the most useful steps keep the ballot link in front of customers who already know the business. Mention the category that fits the trade in ordinary conversation, post the city's link on the business's own page and remind regular customers when a new round opens. These steps keep to the city's terms and need no special tool.

No one can promise a result in a resident vote, and this page makes no claim about what extra effort will produce. The city has set the rules for its own ballot, so any approach should respect them. Checking the city page before each share keeps the details a business passes along accurate, which matters more to residents than a sudden push for volume. For a wider set of supporter steps, see our supporter overview, and for background on paid services in general, see buy votes online.