Style Roseville / Granite Bay / Rocklin Readers' Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

What are the Style Magazine Readers' Choice Awards and who runs them?

The Style Roseville / Granite Bay / Rocklin Readers' Choice Awards are a best-of contest in which readers decide which local businesses deserve the year's praise. Style Magazine, the publication behind Style Media Group, presents the program, and its voting pages live on the magazine's own domain at rgbr.stylerca.com instead of inside somebody else's poll tool. That hosting choice shapes everything for a supporter: the category menus, the login screen and the rules all belong to Style Magazine itself.

The market is deliberately local. Votes come from and go to people around Roseville, Granite Bay and Rocklin in California, and the 2026 masthead bills the program as "The 22nd Annual Style Magazine Readers' Choice Awards", calling it "the Regions' largest and longest running contest!" The vertical is classic best-of: residents put forward the merchants, eateries and service providers they already use, then champion them through the summer window.

Item	Detail
Program	Style Roseville / Granite Bay / Rocklin Readers' Choice Awards
Presenter	Style Magazine (Style Media Group)
Market	Roseville, Granite Bay and Rocklin, California
Format	Best-of, decided by public vote
Ballot address	https://rgbr.stylerca.com/category
Hosting	The organizer's own website
Cycle	Annual, with a ballot every year from 2011 through 2026

Because the ballot is self-hosted, a supporter's experience depends entirely on what Style Magazine prints on its own pages. The sections below cover the calendar, the voting mechanics and the neighbouring California ballots, so a reader can move from curiosity to a counted vote without leaving this guide.

When has the ballot run, and what does the 2026 calendar print?

This is a long-running fixture, not a newcomer. The program has carried a ballot every year from 2011 through 2026, and the 2026 homepage frames the series with confidence: "The 22nd Annual Style Magazine Readers' Choice Awards are the Regions' largest and longest running contest!" Longevity of that kind tells a business two things at once: the exposure is real, and the local audience expects the ballot to come back.

The 2026 calendar is unusually explicit for a locally run ballot. Nominations open May 1, 2026 and end July 10, 2026. The voting period then runs from May 15th to July 15th, so nominating and voting overlap for most of the summer. For a business weighing a campaign, that overlap matters: a customer can nominate a favorite and immediately back it while the window is at its widest. Dates for the 2027 round have not been announced yet.

Stage	2026 dates	Notes
Nominations	May 1 - July 10, 2026	Readers put forward their favorites
Voting	May 15 - July 15, 2026	Logged-in supporters cast counted votes
Next cycle	Not yet announced	Watch the ballot site early in the new year

Several facts stay off the public pages. Beyond the one-vote-per-account rule, Style Magazine prints no daily voting schedule, no category roster and no eligibility terms on its public ballot pages; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Prize arrangements, if any, are likewise absent from the material the ballot displays, so treat any promise of recognition as coming from the organizer directly rather than from this page.

How does a supporter actually cast a counted vote?

Start at the ballot address, rgbr.stylerca.com/category, and use the Categories menu to find the field you care about, from drinks to the businesses you already frequent. Opening an entry brings up its vote control, and this is where Style Magazine's rules bite. The ballot states plainly: "You must be logged in to vote however. Don't worry if you don't have an account, you can create a new one easily!" Registration exists for a reason the site spells out: "We take voting very seriously. By creating an account we ensure real people are voting, and only voting once."

So the unit of support is a person, verified by an account, never a click from an anonymous visitor. The second structural rule matters just as much to anyone backing a single favorite: "YOU MUST CAST A MINIMUM OF 10 VOTES WITHIN THE REGION FOR YOUR VOTES TO COUNT!" A supporter who logs in, votes once for one restaurant and leaves has wasted the trip. Ten votes or more, spread across the region, make every one of them count. In practice that turns a vote into a small errand: pick your favorite, then fill out the rest of the ballot with other local places you genuinely rate. Businesses that understand this tend to ask supporters for a complete ballot rather than a lone click, and the difference shows up in the results.

How does this ballot compare with other California best-of contests?

California carries a crowded field of reader ballots, and six neighbours sit in the same family as this one. Readers can also follow Best of Central Valley Business and Best of Marin in their own patches, cast ballots under Best of Orange County or the Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants banner, weigh Best of Silicon Valley, or look back at the 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest. Each has its own footprint and its own rhythm, and the differences matter more than the similarities.

This program stands apart on three fronts. Its geography is tight and residential, focused on Roseville, Granite Bay and Rocklin rather than a sprawling metro. Its host is the publisher itself, so the login and the 10-vote floor are enforced on Style Magazine's own site instead of a rented poll page. And its history gives winners a credential with real memory behind it, since the ballot has run annually since 2011.

Neighbouring pages show the contrast concretely. Best of Marin speaks to a whole county audience, while the GGBR Calendar Contest carries a single year in its very name, marking it as a one-season event rather than a standing series. A business choosing where to campaign should therefore weigh audience fit first: a Rocklin tradesperson gains more from this ballot's concentrated readership than from a statewide list, and the reverse holds for a brand with reach across California.

How can a business build support during the voting window?

The rules themselves point to the tactic. Because every vote needs its own registered account, and because a supporter's choices only count once they have spread their support across the region, a plea for one lone click goes nowhere. Ask customers to finish a whole ballot: your business first, then the other local spots they already love. That request respects the organizer's design instead of fighting it.

Timing matters too. With the window stretching across early summer, reminders sent midway land while voting is wide open, and a last-week push catches supporters who meant to act earlier but forgot. Style Magazine states no policy on outside voting help on its ballot pages, so anyone weighing paid support ought to check with the magazine itself what it permits before money changes hands. For grounded tactics that transfer to any reader ballot, see our votes guide.