Connecticut Online Voting Contests

Connecticut Gatorade Football Player of the Year

Statewide Connecticut · Gatorade Player of the Year (playeroftheyear.gatorade.com)

Gatorade's annual football honor for Connecticut, chosen by nomination and a state selection panel rather than public ballot. The 2024-25 recipient played quarterback at Brunswick School in Greenwich, threw for 1,589 yards and 16 touchdowns, and verbally committed to Notre Dame football. No vote exists to cast.

Connecticut High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Connecticut · WFSB Channel 3 (CBS)

WFSB Channel 3 — Connecticut's CBS affiliate — runs a statewide fan poll at wfsb.com each week of the CIAC sports calendar. The winner is announced live on the Friday 6 pm newscast and again on Friday Night Football at 11:15 pm, covering all sports, all classes, all eight Connecticut counties.

Connecticut High School Baseball Player of the Week

High School on SI (SBLive Sports) runs Connecticut's weekly prep sports fan votes at si.com/high-school/connecticut, the same hub already hosting the state's football and lacrosse Player of the Week polls. A standalone baseball ballot has not been independently confirmed yet, but CIAC governs the sport statewide and the platform's spring-poll pattern points to one landing on that hub during the season.

Connecticut High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Connecticut · High School on SI / SBLive (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) runs a statewide spring-season fan vote at si.com/high-school/connecticut naming the top CIAC baseball player. Voting is free and unrestricted — any Connecticut fan can cast unlimited votes with no account required. The 2025 ballot featured nominees including a Joel Barlow senior committed to Marist College and a pitcher posting a 1.85 ERA.

Connecticut High School Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Connecticut · High School on SI / SBLive Sports

A winter fan-vote question with an honest answer: SI's High School on SI / SBLive network runs Connecticut's football, lacrosse, baseball, and softball Player of the Week polls on si.com/high-school/connecticut, but its winter basketball coverage there centers on CIAC state bracket updates and team rankings rather than a confirmed standalone weekly ballot — check the live hub each week before assuming one is running.

Connecticut High School Boys Lacrosse Player of the Week

The High School on SI / SBLive weekly fan vote for the best Connecticut prep boys lacrosse performance. SI editors set the 8–11-player field each week; anyone can vote at si.com without an account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a statewide poll run entirely during the spring season.

Connecticut High School Football Player of the Week

High School on SI's statewide Connecticut fan vote: Andy Villamarzo's editors nominate 8–10 players each week across all CIAC divisions and private schools, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. — the same timeline as the SI Texas statewide polls, unlike the longer Monday window given to SI's Texas regional polls.

Connecticut High School Girls Lacrosse Player of the Week

High School on SI runs a weekly fan vote each spring for the top Connecticut girls lacrosse performance. Editors nominate 8–9 players, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — the same platform as the football poll but a completely separate spring field.

Connecticut High School Player of the Year

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

High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) runs a statewide annual fan-vote each season crowning the top Connecticut prep athlete by sport. Voting is free, unrestricted, and hosted at si.com/high-school/connecticut. The 2024 football winner, Windsor QB John Manning, drew 22,288 votes statewide.

Connecticut High School Softball Player of the Week

High School on SI runs this statewide fan vote at si.com each week of the Connecticut spring softball season — April through June. Editors nominate 8–10 pitchers and hitters, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Unlike some polls, SI explicitly states it "does not set limits on how many times a fan can vote."

Eastern Connecticut Conference Athlete of the Week

Eastern Connecticut (New London & Windham counties) · Eastern Connecticut Conference (eccathletics.org), voting facilitated by NFP Sports

A free weekly fan vote for standout athletes across Eastern Connecticut Conference member schools, run through eccathletics.org with the balloting facilitated by NFP Sports. Voting is season-split by CIAC season (fall, winter, spring), with a confirmed live ballot in Spring Week 4, 2025. The program is separate from GametimeCT.

GametimeCT Boys Athlete of the Week; Fall Season

Statewide Connecticut · GametimeCT / CT Insider (Hearst Connecticut Media)

GametimeCT and CT Insider — Hearst Connecticut's six-newspaper high-school sports desk — run a free, public fall Boys Athlete of the Week vote at ctinsider.com, drawing nominees from the New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Connecticut Post, and Danbury News-Times coverage areas. No account is needed to vote.

GametimeCT Boys Athlete of the Week; Spring Season

Statewide Connecticut · GametimeCT / CT Insider (Hearst Connecticut Media)

GametimeCT and CT Insider; Hearst Connecticut's six-newspaper high-school sports desk; run a free, public boys spring Athlete of the Week vote at ctinsider.com, pulling nominees from baseball, boys lacrosse, tennis, golf, and outdoor track across the New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Connecticut Post, and Danbury News-Times coverage areas. No account needed.

GametimeCT Boys Athlete of the Week; Winter Season

Statewide Connecticut · GametimeCT / CT Insider (Hearst Connecticut Media)

GametimeCT and CT Insider — Hearst Connecticut's six-newspaper high-school sports desk — run a free, public boys winter Athlete of the Week vote at ctinsider.com, spanning basketball, wrestling, swimming, indoor track, and ice hockey nominees from the New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Connecticut Post, and Danbury News-Times. No account is needed.

GametimeCT Girls Athlete of the Week; Fall Season

Statewide Connecticut · GametimeCT / CT Insider (Hearst Connecticut Media)

GametimeCT and CT Insider — Hearst Connecticut's six-newspaper high-school sports desk — run a free, public fall Girls Athlete of the Week vote, covering field hockey, soccer, volleyball, swimming, cross country, and gymnastics nominees across the New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Connecticut Post, and Danbury News-Times coverage areas. No account is needed.

GametimeCT Girls Athlete of the Week; Winter Season

Statewide Connecticut · GametimeCT / CT Insider (Hearst Connecticut Media)

GametimeCT and CT Insider, Hearst Connecticut's six-newspaper high-school sports desk, run a free, public winter Girls Athlete of the Week vote, drawing nominees from basketball, swimming and diving, indoor track, and ice hockey across the New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Connecticut Post, and Danbury News-Times coverage areas. No account is needed.

Norwich Bulletin Athlete of the Week

Friday at 5 p.m., not Sunday night: the Norwich Bulletin closes its Eastern Connecticut athlete of the week ballot two days before most Connecticut polls even think about it. Editors pull nominees from Norwich, New London, and Windham county schools all season, no account needed to vote.

WFSB Vote Now, Connecticut Fan Poll Hub

WFSB CBS Hartford runs its "Vote Now" fan-poll hub at wfsb.com/votenow, a rotating multi-sport ballot spanning wrestling, hockey, basketball, football, cross country, and volleyball across Connecticut high schools. It is a separate mechanism from WFSB's own weekly Athlete of the Week page, from the statewide High School on SI poll, and from regional papers like the Norwich Bulletin. One station, several ballots, one hub.

WTNH News 8 Game of the Week, Connecticut

Statewide Connecticut · WTNH News 8 (ABC, New Haven)

WTNH News 8 (ABC, New Haven) runs a free statewide Connecticut vote at wtnh.com/sports/high-school/sports-game-of-the-week called "Vote for News 8's Game of the Week." Unlike WTNH's own athlete poll, this ballot works at the team level: viewers pick a weekly matchup, not a player, and WTNH hasn't published a cap or close time for it.

Best of Connecticut

Annual Connecticut Magazine statewide readers-choice awards, with public reader voting across restaurant, lifestyle, and service categories.

Best of Hartford

Hartford Courant's reader-voted Best of Hartford awards, a SecondStreet-platform ballot covering dining, auto, and services across the capital region, run as an annual program with active 2025 and 2026 cycles.

Best of New Haven

Hartford Courant's reader poll for the New Haven metro, a SecondStreet-platform ballot run separately from Best of Hartford and confirmed through the publisher's own social video rather than a dedicated results page.

Best of the Gold Coast

Moffly Media's reader-voted Best of the Gold Coast awards, spanning Greenwich, New Canaan-Darien, Stamford, and Westport Magazines across Fairfield County's coastal towns, with 2026 finals voting open through May 1, one vote per IP address strictly enforced, and winners revealed in the July/August print issue.

Best of West Hartford

West Hartford Magazine's 11th annual readers' choice awards, voted via we-ha.com's dedicated Contest.vote ballot across 50+ categories, with winners announced at a Back Nine Tavern gala and later published in an Issuu winners book.

CommunityVotes Bridgeport

CommunityVotes Bridgeport is the Bridgeport, Connecticut edition of the national CommunityVotes readers-choice network, run at bridgeport.communityvotes.com and confirmed active for the 2025 cycle, with no published category list or nomination calendar yet on record.

CommunityVotes Hartford

CommunityVotes Hartford's annual readers-choice business awards, voted at hartford.communityvotes.com across 120+ categories spanning the capital region, with nominations open December 2 through March 29 and multiple public voting rounds following. Confirm the exact category list and round dates on the live site each cycle.

CommunityVotes New Haven

CommunityVotes New Haven's annual readers-choice business awards at newhaven.communityvotes.com, with nominations opening December 2024 and confirmed categories spanning Food & Drink and Services. Active cycles are confirmed for both 2025 and 2026, and updates post to the program's Facebook page, NewHavenVotes; confirm the current nomination window on the live site each cycle.

CommunityVotes Norwalk

CommunityVotes Norwalk CT's readers-choice business awards run at norwalkct.communityvotes.com, with the 2025 cycle confirmed active and nominations for that cycle opening back in December 2023. No category list, close date, or vote cap has surfaced publicly, so confirm those specifics on the live site before building a campaign around this ballot.

CommunityVotes Stamford

CommunityVotes Stamford's readers-choice business awards run at stamford.communityvotes.com, with the 2025 cycle confirmed active on the CommunityVotes platform. A category list, nomination window, and vote cap have yet to surface anywhere public, so confirm those specifics on the live site before building a campaign around this ballot.

CommunityVotes Waterbury

CommunityVotes Waterbury's annual readers-choice business awards, voted at waterbury.communityvotes.com, with nominations open December 2 through March 23 ahead of public voting. The 2025 cycle is confirmed active; the category list and any vote cap are not published here, so confirm both directly on the site.

Connecticut Magazine's Best of CT

Connecticut Magazine's annual reader-nomination-and-vote contest spanning dozens of categories, from Best Restaurants to Top Dentists, decided by 380,000+ monthly print and online readers.

HBACT Parade of Homes People's Choice

HBA Connecticut River Region, doing business as HBACT, organizes the Parade of Homes as a regional home builder showcase. The public casts a People's Choice vote online at hbractriverregion.com for homes entered in that year's tour; exact dates and categories should be confirmed on the official page each cycle.

Litchfield Magazine Readers' Choice

Litchfield Magazine's annual Readers' Choice survey covers businesses across Litchfield County, Connecticut, with confirmed categories spanning dentist, contractor, and restaurant plus a dedicated Hidden Gem award. The top three finishers in each category run in print, and 2026 winners were announced in February.

Republican-American Readers' Choice Waterbury

Republican-American's annual Readers' Choice awards for the Waterbury market, with winners compiled into a yearly print supplement rather than a single online leaderboard. Attorney White has topped estate planning for seven straight years, and Cramer & Anderson has won law firm three times, the two confirmed long-tenure results in an otherwise thin public record.

The Day's Best of the Best

The Day's annual Best of the Best readers-choice awards, honoring people, places, and businesses along the Connecticut shoreline. Southeastern Connecticut's main daily paper, publishing since 1881, runs the 2026 cycle at theday.com/bestof; confirm categories, dates, and rules on the live ballot each cycle.