Twin Falls City Competes In National Strongest Towns Competition: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Twin Falls Strongest Towns ballot is and who publishes it

The problem this page starts from is simple: a Twin Falls supporter hears the city is competing nationally, searches for the ballot, and finds scattered mentions with no clear picture of who is asking for votes or by when. Here is that picture.

The program is the Strongest Towns competition appeal for Twin Falls, published by News Radio 1310 KLIX, a news radio station serving Twin Falls, Idaho. KLIX's headline frames it plainly: the city of Twin Falls has made it to Round 2 of the Strongest Towns competition, which the station describes as an annual event recognizing economically progressive U.S. cities. The station then asks its readers to view the competition page and vote for Twin Falls.

The voting page is hosted on the station's domain, at newsradio1310.com, under the address dedicated to this appeal. That matters for two reasons. First, a supporter voting there is answering a local publisher's call, not filling in a generic third-party form. Second, the station controls what appears beside the ballot, which is where the deadline and any round information are printed.

The table below collects the fixed details.

One caution about labels: the ballot page is KLIX's announcement and appeal. It is not a full rulebook, and supporters looking for contest-wide detail will find the station's coverage rather than the competition's complete terms on this domain.

The dated timeline: which years Twin Falls appears and when voting ends

The dated facts on this ballot are few but firm. The page tells readers they have until Friday, March 16, to cast a ballot. That is the one printed deadline for the round KLIX covered, and it is the number to hold onto if you are organizing a push.

The station's page has carried this appeal across several distinct years: 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Those five years are the confirmed history of Twin Falls' appearances, and they match the competition being described as an annual event. There is a gap between 2019 and 2024 in the years the page shows, so the run is not continuous in the printed history, and no explanation for the gap sits on the ballot page itself.

What the page does not give is equally worth knowing. It prints no opening date for the window it covers; only the March 16 closing date appears. It also gives no schedule for later rounds, so a supporter cannot tell from this page alone when Round 3 voting would begin. KLIX's page publishes no category list and no per-supporter limit either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two other dated notes belong here. Twin Falls reached Round 2, which means the vote KLIX is asking for is a mid-contest stage, not the opening ballot. And the contest's own format page describes its spring field as sixteen North American cities in the ninth annual Strongest Town Contest, which gives a sense of the scale Twin Falls is competing against.

How a supporter votes for Twin Falls today

The mechanic on this ballot is about as plain as public voting gets. A reader opens the KLIX page, reads the short appeal, and follows it toward the competition ballot to vote for Twin Falls before Friday, March 16.

Step by step, that means visiting the voting page on newsradio1310.com, checking the printed deadline at the top, following whatever link or instruction the page gives toward the competition's ballot, selecting Twin Falls, and submitting. Nothing on the station's page suggests a login, a registration step or a fee, and nothing in the appeal as published offers paid voting.

The round structure is the part supporters most often mishandle. Because Twin Falls reached Round 2, the March 16 date belongs to that stage. A vote cast confidently in one round does not automatically carry a city into the next; each round needs its own support. Anyone who wants Twin Falls to advance should return to the station's page when coverage of a new round appears and read the fresh deadline printed there instead of assuming.

For anyone rallying others, the practical advice is to circulate the station's own address rather than a paraphrase of it. A direct link takes a supporter straight to the appeal and its deadline. For readers weighing outside help of any kind, it is worth reading whether buying votes is legal first, because the organizer's published rules are the standard any support has to satisfy, and this ballot page publishes no rules text of its own beyond the deadline.

How this ballot sits beside its Idaho neighbours

Twin Falls' Strongest Towns appeal is unusual in the Idaho public-vote landscape, and seeing why helps a supporter understand what kind of ballot they are dealing with.

Most Idaho ballots on this site are readers-choice programs: a publisher runs a yearly poll across many local categories and businesses compete within their own field. That is the shape of Best of Magic Valley Readers' Choice, which serves the same region as KLIX, of Best of Canyon County, of Best of Greater Idaho Falls, and of Best of North Idaho. The Boise side of the state runs the same pattern through Boise Favorites and the Boise Area Parade of Homes.

The Strongest Towns appeal breaks the pattern in three ways. Its subject is a single city rather than a roster of local businesses. Its contest is national in scope, pitting Twin Falls against cities from across North America rather than against neighbours in Idaho. And its host is a radio station publishing a one-city appeal on its own news site, not a multi-category ballot platform.

For a supporter, that difference changes the playbook. There are no categories to choose among and no business field to study; the entire ask is one city's name on one ballot with one printed deadline. That concentration is also why round-to-round persistence matters more here than in a months-long readers-choice season.

Anyone organizing support for Twin Falls should treat the station's page as the single source of deadlines and check it at each new round, then read our award-votes page if the broader award-ballot landscape is the interest.