Idaho Online Voting Contests

Idaho High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Idaho · SBLive Sports / Sports Illustrated High School (WaFd Bank)

Free weekly statewide fan poll at si.com/high-school/idaho, presented by WaFd Bank, recognising the top Idaho prep athlete each sports season. Powered by SBLive Sports and Sports Illustrated High School; voting closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific, winner announced Monday.

Idaho High School Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Idaho · Star-Advertiser / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, Idaho)

Annual Idaho recognition co-sponsored by the Star-Advertiser and High School on SI, drawing basketball nominees from all six IHSAA classifications, 6A down through 1A, with separate boys' and girls' ballots each winter. Casting a ballot at si.com/high-school/idaho costs nothing and skips any login step; the per-vote cap and the day the window shuts are set out in that season's own article.

Idaho High School Boys Athlete of the Week

Statewide Idaho · Sports Illustrated High School / SBLive Sports

Sports Illustrated and SBLive run a Boys-only ballot for Idaho High School Athlete of the Week, separate from the Girls poll, confirmed live during IHSAA football and basketball seasons at si.com/high-school/idaho. Free to vote, no account needed, published as its own weekly article alongside the Girls ballot rather than a shared list.

Idaho High School Football Player of the Year

Statewide Idaho · MaxPreps / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, Idaho)

Annual Idaho high school football recognition shaped by MaxPreps' season stats and recruiting-grade ratings alongside High School on SI's fan vote. IHSAA's five football classifications, 5A down to 1A, each finalize an all-state team first; the year-end poll draws its Player of the Year nominees from that pool. Free to vote, no account required.

Idaho High School Girls Athlete of the Week

Statewide Idaho · Sports Illustrated High School / SBLive Sports

Sports Illustrated and SBLive run a Girls-only ballot for Idaho High School Athlete of the Week, confirmed live as part of SI's nationwide Girls AOTW split since May 2026, published separately from the Boys poll at si.com/high-school/idaho. Free to vote, nothing to sign up for, new nominees cycle through each week of the IHSAA calendar.

Idaho High School Player of the Year

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

Annual season-end fan-vote award produced by High School on SI (formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/idaho, honouring the top Idaho prep athlete in each major sport. Separate polls per sport run at season's close; no per-vote cap; winner decided by fan total at the stated 11:59 p.m. Pacific deadline.

IHSAA Toyota Athlete of the Week

Statewide Idaho · Idaho High School Activities Association (IHSAA)

IHSAA (the Idaho High School Activities Association) runs its own weekly Athlete of the Week recognition, presented by Inland Northwest Toyota Dealers, separate from the SI/SBLive Idaho poll. Nominations close every Wednesday at noon; one boy and one girl are recognized weekly, announced on idhsaa.org and IHSAA's social channels. Free to vote, no account required.

KPVI East Idaho GMC Dealers Athlete of the Week

Pocatello · KPVI NBC 6 Pocatello, sponsored by East Idaho GMC Dealers

The weekly Fan Vote Player of the Week from KPVI NBC 6 Pocatello, sponsored by East Idaho GMC Dealers, a multi-sport public poll covering prep athletes across the Pocatello, Chubbuck, and Blackfoot area, with voting closing Friday afternoon.

KTVB High School Sports Idaho

Boise metro · KTVB (NBC affiliate, Boise, Idaho)

KTVB, Boise's dominant NBC-affiliate station, runs its own high school sports fan-vote coverage, structurally separate from the statewide SBLive/Sports Illustrated Idaho Athlete of the Week ballot. Voting is free and public. The exact weekly page, close time, and per-device limit aren't published here, confirm them live on ktvb.com each cycle.

Lewiston Tribune Prep Athlete of the Week

The Lewiston Tribune's weekly fan-vote poll for the top prep athlete across the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, covering Lewiston, Clarkston, Pullman, Moscow, Lapwai, and the Prairie area on both sides of the Idaho-Washington border. Polls close Wednesday evening; anyone can vote at no cost.

Treasure Valley High School Baseball Player of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra fan vote for the top prep baseball performance in Treasure Valley each week. Coaches nominate players, anyone can vote with no registration, and the poll closes at noon Wednesday — a mid-week deadline that catches most casual followers off guard.

Treasure Valley High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra weekly fan vote for standout boys basketball performances across Ada, Canyon, Gem, and Owyhee counties. Coaches and reporters nominate; anyone can vote as many times as they like; the poll closes Wednesday at noon.

Treasure Valley High School Football Player of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra weekly fan vote for the best prep football performance across Ada, Canyon, Gem, and Owyhee counties. Coaches submit stats, the editors nominate, anyone can vote unlimited times, and the ballot closes Thursday at noon — not Sunday, not Monday.

Treasure Valley High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra weekly fan vote recognizing the top Treasure Valley prep girls basketball performer. Anyone can vote unlimited times on IdahoStatesman.com — no account needed — and the ballot closes at noon Wednesday, a midweek deadline that catches most supporters off guard.

Treasure Valley High School Soccer Players of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra fan vote for the best Treasure Valley prep soccer performances each week — covering both boys and girls in a single combined poll, closing noon Thursday, with no registration required and no cap on how many times you can vote.

Treasure Valley High School Softball Player of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra spring fan vote for Treasure Valley's top prep softball performer. Coaches submit nominations, anyone can vote unlimited times on IdahoStatesman.com — no account needed — and the poll closes noon Wednesday, earlier than any other Treasure Valley weekly ballot.

Treasure Valley High School Volleyball Player of the Week

Boise · Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra

The Idaho Statesman / Varsity Extra fan vote for the best Treasure Valley prep volleyball performance of the week. Coaches and Statesman staff nominate; anyone can vote unlimited times at IdahoStatesman.com with no account — and the ballot closes noon Thursday, not Sunday night.

Best of Canyon County

Idaho Press's annual Best of Canyon County readers-choice program runs at idahopress.com/bestof/, a ballot built specifically for Canyon County businesses, from Nampa to Caldwell, and organizationally separate from Boise Weekly's Best of Boise (BOB) across the county line in Ada County.

Best of Greater Idaho Falls

Sandhill Media's nominate-then-vote readers'/listeners' choice program for the Idaho Falls metro, spanning 250 categories across six radio stations, with results independently audited each year.

Best of Magic Valley Readers' Choice

Annual Times-News readers-choice awards for Twin Falls and the Magic Valley, with nominations, a finalist ballot, and public voting hosted on the Second Street platform.

Best of North Idaho

Coeur d'Alene Press's annual Best of North Idaho readers-choice program runs on the Second Street platform at cdapress.secondstreetapp.com/Best-of-North-Idaho-2026, covering Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, and Sandpoint, a North Idaho market the paper treats as separate from Boise's statewide coverage. The confirmed 2026 cycle got underway January 11.

Best of the LC Valley

Annual Lewiston Tribune / Inland 360 readers-choice awards for the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, drawing roughly 8,000 reader nominations across 170 categories before an open public vote each spring.

Best of the Valley

Idaho Mountain Express's 17th annual readers' poll for Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey, and the Wood River Valley, run on SurveyMonkey across roughly 140 categories in six sections, closing every February.

Boise Area Parade of Homes

BCA, the Building Contractors Association of Southwest Idaho, runs the annual Boise Area Parade of Homes at boiseparadeofhomes.com, where toured model homes compete for the public's favorite honor. Biltmore Co. enters as the three-time defending winner, having taken it with the same design, The Carmell, in Riverstone, from 2023 through 2025.

Boise Favorites

The Idaho Statesman newspaper's own Boise and Treasure Valley readers'-choice program at boisefavorites.com, run separately from the statewide Idaho's Best Awards, with local restaurateurs and other business owners known to chase the recognition hard every year, though the current category list and vote cap aren't part of the public record.

Boise Weekly Best of Boise

Idaho Press's annual Boise Weekly Best of Boise (BOB) poll at idahopress.com/boiseweekly/best_of_boise/ runs as a pure write-in ballot spanning restaurants, services, and nightlife, with no account or picklist standing between a voter and a typed-in business name, and results appear later as coverage on the paper's own site.

CommunityVotes Nampa

Nampa · CommunityVotes Nampa

Nampa, Idaho, in Canyon County, hosts CommunityVotes Nampa at nampa.communityvotes.com through a local CommunityVotes partner. Two editions are confirmed, 2025 and 2026, with nominations that have historically opened somewhere in the September-to-December stretch. The 2026 cycle has already run its course, publishing voting results and announcing winners in July 2026. A category roster, a vote cap, and exact nomination or voting dates are not published; the live ballot is what settles all three, confirmed fresh each cycle.

For Idahos Google Doodler

KSAS-FM publishes a public-vote ballot called For Idahos Google Doodler on 1035kissfmboise.com for listeners across Idaho. The ballot points the audience to Google.com to back an Idaho student's Doodle artwork, and its voting phase runs in March with a March 6th deadline printed on the page. Editions are confirmed in 2017 and in every year from 2022 through 2026. The station leaves the opening date, the category lineup and the per-supporter voting rule off the page, so those details have to be read off the live ballot.

For The Magic Valley Teacher Of The Year

KLIX, the Newsradio 1310 station serving the Magic Valley region of Idaho, invites listeners to crown a Teacher of the Year through a public vote on its own website. Ballots have been confirmed in 2015, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the recent voting windows have fallen in May. Nominations come first, a Top 10 list of educators is published, and supporters are encouraged to return and vote every day while the window is open.

For The Most Creative Mask In Lite Fms Mask Querade Party

KXLT-FM, an Idaho radio station, invites listeners across the Treasure Valley to vote for the most creative mask in its Mask-querade Party. The vote runs on liteonline.com, the station's own web home, and the final round of the cycle closed on Saturday, August 8 at 11:59 p.m. Editions have appeared in every year from 2020 through 2026. This page explains who takes part, what the station publishes about its rules, and where this ballot fits among Idaho's reader and listener choice programs.

Halloween Photo Contest (kool965)

KLIX-FM, a Townsquare Media radio station broadcasting as Kool 96, runs the Halloween Photo Contest on its own website at kool965.com. Editions of this pet photo vote are confirmed for 2020, 2022 and 2025, and the ballot invites supporters to vote daily for a favorite pet. Eligibility terms are left off the ballot page.

Idaho Music Awards

The Idaho Music Awards is a public-vote awards ballot for Idaho artists, produced and hosted by 3rd Elmnt on its own website rather than by a newspaper or a polling platform. The live 2026 ballot runs through October 31, 2026, and lets supporters vote in as many or as few categories as they wish. The 2026 cycle is the sole edition confirmed so far, with no announced return.

Idaho State Journal Readers' Choice

Idaho State Journal's annual readers'-choice awards for Pocatello and southeastern Idaho, confirmed through the paper's own "Readers' Choice Awards highlights area's best" coverage and capped each year by a public awards ceremony, with categories and the voting platform confirmed only on the live idahostatejournal.com page.

Idaho's Best Awards

Idaho's Best Awards' annual statewide readers'-choice program at idahosbest.com, run across three voting rounds and drawing 100,000+ Idaho voters a year, with 2026 winners honored at an April 7-8 ceremony in downtown Boise rather than a single regional metro ballot.

North Idaho NIBCA Parade of Homes

North Idaho Building Contractors' annual Parade of Homes showcases newly built homes across the Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint markets, roughly an hour apart in Kootenai and Bonner counties. The public votes for a favorite at poh.nibca.com under NIBCA's own current-cycle rules; the exact home count, categories, and voting window aren't published beyond that base URL.

Now For Boises Best Burger (liteonline)

Liteonline runs a summer public vote asking which Boise, Idaho, spot makes the city's best all-around burger. The ballot sits on Liteonline's site, and voting runs June through August. Confirmed editions appeared in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025, so the burger question has returned across several summers. Liteonline has not printed exact opening or closing dates for the current round.

Post Register Readers' Choice

Post Register's annual Readers' Choice awards for Idaho Falls and East Idaho, voted at postregister.secondstreetapp.com, a separate ballot from Pocatello's Idaho State Journal program and Sandhill Media's radio-driven Best of Greater Idaho Falls. The confirmed 2025 cycle ran nominations and voting from April 16 through May 14.

Twin Falls City Competes In National Strongest Towns Competition

News Radio 1310 KLIX runs a voting page for Twin Falls, Idaho, whose city has reached Round 2 of the Strongest Towns competition, an annual contest recognizing economically progressive U.S. cities. The page sets a Friday, March 16, ballot deadline. Twin Falls appearances span 2018 and 2019, then 2024, 2025 and 2026.

All About the Animals Coalition 2027 Pet Photo Calendar Contest

A paid photo vote hosted on GoGo Photo Contest raises money for a Pocatello, Idaho animal welfare group. Supporters pay for each vote they cast between September 28 and October 28, 2026, and the winning pet photographs fill the coalition's 2027 calendar. Unlike Idaho's readers' choice ballots, entries are pets rather than businesses, and the dollar per vote functions as a donation. Rules beyond the printed voting window, including entry eligibility, have not been published by Aaacoalition.

All About the Animals Coalition Pet Photo Calendar Contest

Pocatello · All About the Animals Coalition

All About the Animals Coalition, based in Pocatello, Idaho, runs its Pet Photo Calendar Contest at gogophotocontest.com/aaacoalition. Each vote costs $1, and voting runs September 28 through October 28, 2026, closing at 8:00 PM Mountain time, with winning photos set to fill the 2027 calendar. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Christmas Pet Photo Contest (kezj)

The Christmas Pet Photo Contest is a pet photo ballot run by Idaho radio station KEZJ-FM on kezj.com itself. The 2019 edition narrowed submitted pet photos down to ten finalists, and readers selected a winner by clicking vote now beside a photo. Voting in that edition closed on December 21 at 11:59 a.m., and Valley View Veterinary Clinic partnered with the station to award a Galaxy Tab 4 to the winning pet's owner. The page also carries a 2020 ballot address, and the station has not announced the next edition year.

Christmas Pet Photo Contest (kool965)

KLIX-FM runs the Christmas Pet Photo Contest for Idaho listeners through its Kool 96.5 brand at kool965.com. Confirmed editions ran in 2020, 2023 and 2025. In the 2025 round, entries closed at 11:59 p.m. MST on December 21, and voting on finalist photos ran from December 22 through midnight on the 28th. The 2025 winners included two dogs and a pig in the top three.

In Our Christmas Pet Holiday Photo Contest

KLIX, the NewsRadio 1310 station in Idaho, runs the In Our Christmas Pet Holiday Photo Contest on its own newsradio1310.com site each December. Pet owners enter a photo of their animal in Christmas spirit, the station posts the leading entries, and the public votes for a favorite. Printed rules from an earlier edition set the voting window from December 16th through December 23rd at 10am, with a Canon camera prize supplied by Valley View Veterinary Clinic. Confirmed editions run in 2015, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025.

Valley View Veterinary Clinic Halloween Pet Photo Contest

Valley View Veterinary Clinic runs a Halloween pet photo vote in Idaho, published on kool965.com, the website of the Kool 96.5 radio station. Editions are confirmed for 2023 and 2024. In the 2024 cycle, entries closed at midnight on November 4th, community voting began November 5th, and supporters could vote daily through November 15th across a slate of 17 finalists.

Valley View Veterinary Clinic's Halloween Pet Photo Contest

News Radio 1310 KLIX runs Valley View Veterinary Clinic's Halloween Pet Photo Contest as a public click vote on the station's photo contest page for the Twin Falls, Idaho market. Winners posts mark editions from 2021 through 2026, six in all, and a 2027 ballot would be next in the sequence. The station posts no voting calendar for the Halloween round itself.