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.

The Bulletin Boys Soccer Preseason Player of the Year

The Bulletin Boys Soccer Preseason Player of the Year is a preseason reader poll that The Bulletin, a Connecticut newspaper, runs on the Crowdsignal poll.fm platform. Confirmed edition years are 2022, 2024 and 2025, with voting falling in the August to September window. Exact window dates and per-voter rules are not published, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

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.

Awards Shows

Shoot, a magazine published in Connecticut, runs an Awards Shows voting feature on SHOOTonline covering Academy Awards season. Nominations activity falls in February, and edition years 2023, 2024 and 2026 are confirmed. The ballot is a public vote carried on the organizer's own domain. The exact open and close days, the category details and any cap on repeat voting stay unpublished until the ballot itself appears, so readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

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.

Best West Hartford Final Days

Best West Hartford Final Days is a public-vote best-of program organized by West Hartford Magazine in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its voting page appears at the organizer's we-ha.com address. The page evidence gives an August 31, 2016 closing date, while current category details, voting limits, eligibility, and cycle dates require confirmation on the live ballot each cycle.

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 Hartford 2026

CommunityVotes Hartford 2026, run by Metroland Media across the greater Hartford metro, opens online nominations December 2 through March 29 before moving into public voting rounds at hartford.communityvotes.com, covering local businesses across the wider region rather than one single town.

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.

Fairfield County Daily Voice Readers' Choice

Fairfield County's Daily Voice Readers' Choice poll runs through the Daily Voice news network at dailyvoice.com, spanning Stamford, Greenwich, Westport, and Bridgeport across 86-plus categories in six major sections. The 2024 cycle ran on this online format, and 2026 is expected to repeat it; confirm exact dates on the live edition each year.

Fairfield Patch Readers' Choice

Fairfield Patch Readers' Choice is a best-of ballot decided by public vote, run by Patch Media Corporation for Fairfield, Connecticut, hosted on patch.com. The live 2026 installment is Readers' Choice: Fairfield Preschools, open through the end of September 2026. Supporters vote by poll, and can add a rating and a review. This is the first confirmed edition of the program, and Patch has printed no category roster, no day-level dates and no per-reader vote limit for it.

For Regan

King, a magazine published in Connecticut, runs For Regan, a public-vote ballot published on king-mag.com itself. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2025 and 2026, and King places the vote inside October. The magazine prints the month but not the exact dates the window opens and shuts, so anyone timing a push should rely on the live page at king-mag.com/vote-for-regan/ rather than on any summary.

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.

Middletown Ct Patch Readers' Choice

The Middletown Ct Patch Readers' Choice is a best-of award program that Patch Media Corporation runs for Middletown, Connecticut, on the town's own Patch site. Confirmed editions ran in 2018 and 2024, and the 2018 voting window sat in October. Patch's published rule allows each person a single daily vote for every listed category. The exact opening and closing days, the category roster and the next edition year are not printed for Middletown, so supporters should check the live ballot when a new cycle opens.

Milford Patch Readers' Choice

Milford Patch Readers' Choice is a public-vote award published by Patch Media Corporation on its own patch platform for Milford, Connecticut. The 2026 edition is the only one confirmed, and its ballot, aimed at local preschools, accepts votes from September 1 through September 30, 2026. Supporters vote in a poll and may add a rating and a short review. Later cycles are not yet published.

Orange Patch Readers' Choice

The Orange Patch Readers' Choice is a public-vote award that Patch Media Corporation publishes for Orange, Connecticut. The preschool ballot, Readers' Choice: Orange Preschools, sits at patch.com under the connecticut/orange path. A single edition is confirmed for 2026, with the voting window in September and a listed close on September 30, 2026. The page excerpt notes that home based Watch Me Grow rates number one with parents in Orange. Whether the preschool ballot returns in 2027 has not been published.

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.

Shelton Patch Readers' Choice

Shelton Patch Readers' Choice is a hyperlocal best-of ballot published by Patch Media Corporation on the Shelton, CT Patch site. The live 2026 ballot celebrates Shelton preschools and features Kid's First Learning Center. Voting runs through September 30, 2026, and this is the programme's first confirmed edition.

Snowplow Naming Contest

The Snowplow Naming Contest is run by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, which invites residents across Connecticut to vote names onto state snowplows. Voting in the current cycle runs through January 9, 2026, ending at 11:59 in the evening that Friday. Supporters vote by visiting ct.gov/dot and clicking the Snowplow Naming Contest link, or by opening the organizer's form directly. A total of 12 CTDOT snowplows will be named this year, and the winning names are announced soon after voting ends.

The Bulletin Girls Volleyball Preseason Player of the Year

The Bulletin runs a Connecticut reader ballot for girls volleyball preseason player of the year, using Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The 2025 edition ran in September 2025 and the page now shows the closed label. Edition years 2022 and 2025 are confirmed, and 2026 is the next expected cycle. Voting is public while the ballot is open.

The Bulletin Preseason Baseball Player of the Year

The Bulletin, a Connecticut newspaper, runs this preseason high school baseball award as a public vote hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Its confirmed editions sit in 2022 and 2025, and the 2025 voting window fell in April. The ballot honors high school baseball players across eastern Connecticut towns such as Plainfield, Griswold and Killingly. Exact window dates, category details and any vote limits are not published in advance, so readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Bulletin Softball Player of the Year

The Bulletin organizes this softball award in Connecticut. Crowdsignal hosts the public vote platform. Confirmed edition years include 2022 and 2025. Voting typically occurs between September and November. Supporters access the ballot via a direct poll link. No published roster of categories and no daily-vote rule exist on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

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.

Vote For Male Player Of The Week

Vote For Male Player Of The Week is a Connecticut high school sports poll that runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Confirmed editions span 2021 through 2026, with voting windows falling between September and June. The ballot currently listed at the series' poll.fm address is closed, so supporters waiting on the next round need the fresh address. This page collects the series' format, its edition history, the vote totals published on the most recent listed ballot, and the rules the organizer has left unstated.

Westport Patch Readers' Choice

Patch Media Corporation runs the Westport Patch Readers' Choice on its Westport, Connecticut town site, and the live installment is the preschools poll. The confirmed 2026 voting window runs September 1 through September 30. Supporters vote in a poll, add a rating and a review, and Patch's official Readers' Choice rules allow a vote once per day during the voting period. Only the 2026 edition is confirmed so far.

Who is The Bulletin Athlete of the Week

Each week during the school year, The Bulletin, the Connecticut newspaper behind norwichbulletin.com, asks its readers to crown a standout high school athlete. Ballots run on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Editions span 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, with the voting window running September through June. The current week's dates are not printed; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Who is The Bulletin baseball player of the year

The Bulletin, a Connecticut newspaper, asks its readers to pick a baseball player of the year in a public Crowdsignal vote. The confirmed cycle played out in June, editions exist for 2022 and 2025, and the latest ballot is closed. Nominees are high school players, and the top 2025 finisher drew 15,059 votes. Day-level dates and any per-supporter rule stay off the published ballot.

Vote for Your Favorite at Blue Back Burger Bash and Support CT Foodshare

West Hartford · West Hartford Magazine (we-ha.com)

West Hartford, Connecticut's Blue Back Burger Bash pairs a favorite-vendor vote with a fundraiser for CT Foodshare, run by West Hartford Magazine at we-ha.com and held at Blue Back Square. Archived editions show the event present in 2024, 2025 and 2026. Exact voting dates, a vote cap and eligibility rules are not published; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.