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Connecticut Online Voting Contests

69 contests with public online voting in Connecticut — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.

Sports — Athlete of the Week & Player of the Year (21)

  • 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.

  • Ruden Report Players of the Week

    Connecticut's Ruden Report runs a weekly Players of the Week vote at therudenreport.com, co-branded with sponsor Fairfield County Bank. Confirmed history spans two rounds by year, 2025 and 2026, and the current round lists seven male finalists and eight female finalists. Winners receive a Player of the Week T-shirt from Fairfield County Bank. Voting for this round closes at noon on a Thursday, though the organizer's page does not print a specific calendar date, a category rulebook, or a per-voter limit.

  • 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.

Best of / Readers' Choice (45)

  • 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 Eastern Conn Community’s Choice Awards

    A Norwich business that finishes the year without a Community's Choice trophy has usually missed the voting round, not the quality of its work. Gannett / USA TODAY Network's local paper runs this best-of ballot for Eastern Connecticut on the Your Choice Awards platform. In 2025 nominations ran May 8-29, voting ran July 10-24, and winners were announced October 5. Supporters may vote up to once a day for their favorites.

  • 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 Danbury

    CommunityVotes Danbury is a 2026 nomination-and-vote ballot for favorite businesses, people and services in Danbury, Connecticut, run under the CommunityVotes platform by a local partner. Unlike the publisher-led Best of Hartford or Best of New Haven ballots, this one is a standalone city market. Nominations for the 2026 cycle run from August 20 through December 13. It is the first confirmed edition, and categories, vote rules and a 2027 return are not published.

  • 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.

  • Connecticut Treasures Award

    The Connecticut Treasures Award is a state-wide architecture award run by AIA Connecticut, hosted on the chapter's own website rather than a commercial balloting platform. The award page confirms 2025 and 2026 cycles, and the 2026 window for the Community and Senior Centers category opens Monday, July 27 and closes Sunday, August 2 at 11:59pm EST. This page explains who runs the award, how the public vote works, what the ballot page does and does not publish, and how the program sits beside Connecticut's reader's-choice contests.

  • Darien Patch Readers' Choice

    Run by Patch Media Corporation on its own Patch platform, this Darien, Connecticut ballot asks readers to name the Best Darien Ice Cream Shop. Confirmed editions appear in 2023, 2025 and 2026, with the voting window falling in July. The page below sets out the ballot's mechanic, its daily vote rule, and how this single-town poll sits beside Connecticut's larger best-of programs.

  • 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.

  • Norwalk Patch Readers' Choice

    Norwalk Patch Readers' Choice is the weekly best-of franchise that Patch Media Corporation runs on Norwalk, CT Patch, its local news site for Norwalk, Connecticut. The confirmed 2026 installment turns the ballot toward Norwalk preschools, and voting runs through October 2026. Support happens on the ballot itself: a poll vote, a rating and a review, all submitted on patch.com. Unlike statewide best-of programs, this one asks readers to argue for one local preschool in a single market.

  • 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.

  • Stamford's Best Bartender

    Stamford, Connecticut hosts Stamford's Best Bartender, a public nightlife vote run by Moffly Media, publisher of Stamford magazine, at e.mofflylifestylemedia.com. Two cycles are confirmed, 2025 and 2026, with the 2026 event landing July 22 at Stamford's harbor. Moffly's own listing brands that gathering the 14th annual Best Bartender Contest, though Moffly has not printed a standalone online voting window, a full category roster, or a per-voter cap for the 2026 cycle.

  • 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 Preseason Football Player of the Year

    The Bulletin, the Connecticut newspaper behind norwichbulletin.com, asks its readers one September question before the football season starts: which player should carry its preseason player of the year tag? The paper posts that question as a fan ballot on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host at poll.fm/15989949. The 2022, 2024 and 2025 preseason polls are all confirmed, and the 2024 one shut at midday on Friday, Sept. 13 per the paper's coverage. Any per-supporter limit stays off the ballot page.

  • The Bulletin Preseason Girls Basketball Player of the Year

    The Bulletin, a Connecticut newspaper at norwichbulletin.com, asks readers to name a preseason girls basketball player of the year in a fan ballot hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Runs are confirmed in 2022 and again in 2024, and voting has fallen inside a September-to-November span. The 2024 ballot carries a closed marker. The publisher prints no exact dates, no vote limit and no word on the next edition, so the live ballot decides what applies each time a new preseason poll appears.

  • The Bulletin Preseason Softball Player of the Year

    The Bulletin, a Connecticut newspaper, runs a preseason softball honour on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host. Editions are confirmed for 2022 and 2025, and the voting phase falls between September and November. The 2025 ballot is marked closed, with the leading nominee at 52 percent on 20,798 votes. Exact open and close dates and any per-supporter rule stay off the ballot page.

  • 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.

  • Wilton Patch Readers' Choice

    Patch Media Corporation runs the Wilton Patch Readers' Choice on its own Patch platform for Wilton, Connecticut. Its confirmed run spans 2025 and 2026, and the current ballot puts one question to the town: which dry cleaner deserves the title of Wilton's favorite. Voting falls in a September window, with the review-and-vote flow and its single-vote rule printed on the ballot page itself.

  • Woodbury Middlebury Patch Readers' Choice

    Patch Media Corporation runs the Woodbury Middlebury Patch Readers' Choice, a readers' choice awards ballot for the towns of Woodbury and Middlebury, Connecticut, hosted on Patch's own site. Six straight editions are confirmed, running from 2021 through 2026, and the Patch Readers' Choice program dates back to 2012. The voting window falls in May. The organizer does not publish the opening day, the closing day, the category roster or any rule limiting repeat votes.

Pet & Shelter Photo Contests (2)

  • 2027 Fidelco Guide Dogs Calendar Photo Contest

    Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation runs a calendar photo contest on GoGo Photo Contest where supporters vote for their favorite Fidelco dog. The 2026 voting window ran the whole month of July. This page explains who runs it, when it opens, how the ballot works and what the organizer has not printed.

  • Dog Star Rescue 2026 Calendar Contest

    Dog Star Rescue in Bloomfield, Connecticut runs a photo fundraiser on GoGo Photo Contest in which supporters vote for dogs adopted from the rescue. The top 12 vote getters become the stars of the rescue's 2026 calendar. The 2025 and 2026 runs of the calendar vote are both confirmed, and the 2026 ballot has ended. The rescue has not printed the next window, the entry roster or any per-supporter rule on the ballot itself.

Food & Drink Brackets (1)

  • 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.


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