Indiana Online Voting Contests

Bloomington Herald-Times Athlete of the Week

The Bloomington Herald-Times' IU Health-presented weekly fan vote for South- Central Indiana's top high school performance. Anyone can vote as often as they like, and 2026 polls have drawn thousands of votes per week across softball, baseball, and track.

Evansville Courier & Press Athlete of the Week

Evansville · Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at courierpress.com run by the Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), recognising the top Southwest Indiana high school athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed. Routinely draws 41,000+ votes per weekly poll — among the highest totals in the Gannett network.

Evansville Courier & Press Football Player of the Year

Evansville · Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

A free preseason and end-of-season fan vote at courierpress.com from the Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), separate from the paper's weekly Athlete of the Week poll and focused only on Southwest Indiana football. The 2025 preseason edition drew more than 85,500 total votes.

Indiana High School Athlete of the Week

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

Statewide weekly fan-vote recognition published at si.com by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), covering every IHSAA member school across all three Indiana prep sports seasons. Voting is unlimited, free, and open through Sunday 11:59 p.m.

Indiana High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Indiana · IndyStar (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Spring season fan-vote award published by IndyStar (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) and High School on SI, naming the top Indiana prep baseball player. All IHSAA member schools are eligible; readers vote free online at the close of each IHSAA spring season.

Indiana High School Football Player of the Week

The Indiana Preps Sports Network statewide weekly reader poll crowns a prep football standout each week of the regular season. Editors and fans alike submit nominees via email; vote percentages and total counts are published with every winner announcement — and Week 3 of 2025 was decided by exactly 21 votes.

Indiana High School Player of the Year

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

Season-end fan-vote award published by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/indiana, recognising the top Indiana prep athlete per sport at the close of each IHSAA season. No per-vote cap; all 400-plus IHSAA member schools eligible.

Indiana SI Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

High School on SI's season-end fan vote for Indiana boys basketball, published at si.com/high-school/indiana. Nominees are chosen editorially from standout performances across every IHSAA class, then combined onto one statewide ballot rather than following the state tournament's four-class split. Free to vote, no account required.

Indiana SI Football 3A Player of the Year

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

Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, merging all six IHSAA football classes into one combined ballot instead of a stand-alone Class 3A contest. Free to vote, no account needed; the nominee field is chosen editorially from standout performances across every enrollment tier, not through fan nomination.

Indiana SI Football 4A Player of the Year

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

Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, pooling all six IHSAA football classes into a single combined ballot instead of a Class 4A-only contest. Free to vote, no account needed; the field is chosen editorially from standout performances across every enrollment tier, not through fan nomination.

Indiana SI Football 5A Player of the Year

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

Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, folding Indiana football's six IHSAA classes — 1A through 6A — into one combined ballot rather than a Class 5A-only contest. Free to vote, no account needed; nominees are chosen editorially from the season's standout performances across every enrollment tier.

Indiana SI Football 6A Player of the Year

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

Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, covering Indiana football's full IHSAA class ladder — Class 1A through Class 6A — on one combined ballot rather than a per-class contest. Free to vote, no account needed; nominees are chosen editorially from the season's standout performances.

Indiana SI Football Player of the Year

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

High School on SI's season-end statewide fan vote for Indiana football, published at si.com/high-school/indiana. One ballot covers every IHSAA class at once rather than splitting by enrollment size. The confirmed 2024 field carried eight nominees, including a Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School entrant. Free to vote, no account required.

Indiana SI Girls Basketball Player of the Year

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

Free statewide fan vote from High School on SI for Indiana girls basketball, hosted at si.com/high-school/indiana. One combined ballot spans all four IHSAA enrollment classes rather than crowning a winner per class. The Indiana desk builds the nominee field editorially, and the ballot typically opens once the girls' state finals wrap in February.

Indiana SI Girls Softball Player of the Year

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

Free statewide fan vote from High School on SI for Indiana girls softball, hosted at si.com/high-school/indiana. One combined ballot spans all four IHSAA classes, not a separate winner per class. The Indiana desk builds the nominee field editorially; voting typically opens once the softball state finals wrap in June.

IndyStar Athlete of the Week

Indianapolis · The Indianapolis Star (IndyStar) — Gannett / USA TODAY Network

Free weekly fan-vote poll published at indystar.com by The Indianapolis Star (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) on the SecondStreet platform, recognising the top Indianapolis-metro high school athlete each IHSAA sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account required.

IndyStar Indiana Girls Basketball Player of the Week

Indianapolis · Indianapolis Star / IndyStar

The Indianapolis Star's statewide fan vote for Indiana's best girls basketball performance of the week. IndyStar sports desk picks the nominees; anyone can vote embedded in the article; the poll closes noon Wednesday in the regular season, and the regionals round pushed the close to noon Friday — a deadline that does not stay fixed across the tournament, so the day you have to check is never a given.

Northeast Indiana Boys Basketball FAN CHOICE Performance of the Week

Fort Wayne · Outside the Huddle

Outside the Huddle's weekly Google Forms fan vote for the top boys basketball performance in Northeast Indiana — sponsored by Crazy Pinz, nominated by coaches, and open Sunday through Tuesday at 5 p.m. Blackhawk Christian, Columbia City, Bishop Dwenger, and Bishop Luers have all produced confirmed winners.

Northeast Indiana Football Performance of the Week

Northeast Indiana · Outside the Huddle

Outside the Huddle's weekly fan-choice poll for the best NE Indiana high school football performance. Coaches submit stat lines to [email protected]; Outside the Huddle picks the nominees; fans vote via a Google Form from Saturday through 5 p.m. Tuesday. Sponsored by Crazy Pinz Entertainment Center.

2025 BEST OF DUBOIS COUNTY

Best of Dubois County is the readers-choice program that The Herald, the daily newspaper serving Jasper and the rest of Dubois County, Indiana, runs on its own Second Street account. Confirmed editions have run in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The 2025 ballot accepted votes from June 28 through July 20, 2025, and is now closed. The category list and any vote limits are not published on the page held here; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

2025 Howl-O-Walkoween People’s Choice Contest

Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control runs the Howl-O-Walkoween People’s Choice Contest, a pet costume photo fundraiser built on GoGo Photo Contest. Confirmed editions cover 2024 and 2025. The 2025 ballot opened voting at 1:00 PM Eastern on Saturday, October 18 and closed it at noon Eastern on Friday, October 24, when the winner was announced on Facebook and other social media.

2025 Perry County Readers' Choice Awards

The Herald runs the 2025 Perry County Readers' Choice Awards on Second Street, a readers-choice ballot for Perry County, Indiana. The 2025 voting window ran from April 14 to May 13, 2025, and is now closed. Confirmed editions exist for 2023 and 2025, and the program sits beside six other Indiana best-of ballots covered on this site.

2026 Best of Kokomo

Best of Kokomo is the city-level readers-choice award published by the Kokomo Tribune, a daily newspaper based in Kokomo, Indiana. The ballot lives on Second Street at kokomotribune2.secondstreetapp.com. Confirmed editions ran in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 ballot is listed as upcoming, running from September 30 through December 14, 2026. The category lineup and the per-supporter voting rule are not published with the listing, so check the live ballot for those details.

2026 LOLIN Calendar Photo Contest

Love of Labs Indiana gathers photos of Labrador retrievers adopted through its rescue network and lets supporters pay a small donation to cast votes for the dogs they want on the pages of the 2026 LOLIN Calendar. The ballot sits on GoGo Photo Contest, the voting round printed on the page ran in June 2025, and the finished calendar was slated for release on or about August 1, 2025.

2026 Trib Star Readers' Choice

The Trib Star Readers' Choice is a readers' choice ballot run by the Tribune-Star newspaper of Terre Haute, Indiana, and hosted on the Second Street platform. Two editions are confirmed, one in 2025 and one in 2026. The 2026 voting window ran from February 4 through March 16, 2026. Category and voting-rule details rest with the Tribune-Star rather than with any secondary write-up.

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Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana runs a faculty awards program on its own website. Nominations for the January 2026 cycle, including the Lawhead Award and the Rawlings Award, were due by January 21, 2026. The program is documented for 2025 and 2026, and a winners list reaches back to 1972. Day level voting dates should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

Alumni Awards Honors

Manchester University invites its alumni community to recognize fellow graduates through the Alumni Awards Honors program. Nominations must be received before Dec. 31, and confirmed editions of the ballot appear across 2025 and 2026. The program runs on the university's own website, and the nomination form sits at manchester.edu under the alumni section. This page explains who the ballot is for, what the university publishes about it, and how a graduate submits a name.

Best in Indiana

Main Street United and Midwestern Traveler Magazine run Best in Indiana, a statewide best-of ballot for businesses across Indiana. The two confirmed edition years are 2024 and 2025. Voting closes October 26th in the current cycle, on Midwestern Traveler's own website with no hosted contest platform involved. Nominations open before voting each year. Category lists and per-voter rules are not printed in advance, so supporters should read the live page before casting anything.

Best of Elkhart County

The Elkhart Truth's annual reader-choice ballot for Elkhart County, Indiana, running nominate-then-vote across categories like best hamburgers, best auto repair, and best grocery, with a $100 gift-card incentive for the 2026 cycle.

Best of Indiana

Indiana Connection's statewide Best of Indiana readers' ballot, run through the Electric Consumer / Indiana Connection network and voted online at indianaconnection.org, reaching rural electric-cooperative households across the state.

Best of Kokomo

Kokomo, in north-central Indiana, is home to 2026 Best of Kokomo, a readers'-choice ballot the Kokomo Tribune runs on Second Street at kokomotribune2.secondstreetapp.com. Three editions are confirmed, 2024 through 2026, with the 2026 round opening September 30 and running through December 14. Neither a named ballot roster nor a per-supporter voting limit shows up anywhere in that listing; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Madison 2026 (heraldbulletin2)

Best of Madison 2026 is the readers' choice ballot The Herald Bulletin runs for Madison County, Indiana, hosted on the newspaper's Second Street ballot site. Its confirmed voting window ran November 24, 2025 through January 17, 2026, and the program's editions span 2025 and 2026. The page collects what the organizer has published, what it has not, the voting steps a supporter follows, and how the ballot sits beside other Indiana readers' choice programs.

Best of Madison County 2025

Best of Madison County is the readers' choice ballot published by The Herald Bulletin, the daily newspaper for Anderson and Madison County in Indiana. It runs on a Second Street nomination-and-voting ballot. The 2024 and 2025 editions are both confirmed, and the 2025 promotion ran from November 18, 2024 to January 22, 2025. For the current cycle's categories and voting rules, the live ballot is the source to check.

Best of the Region (NWI Times)

Northwest Indiana · The Times of Northwest Indiana (Times Media Company)

Annual Northwest Indiana readers-choice business awards run by The Times of Northwest Indiana (nwi.com), with public nomination and daily online voting across hundreds of local business categories.

Best Things — Indianapolis Community's Choice Awards

IndyStar's Community's Choice Awards for Indianapolis, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform across 140+ local business categories, with a nomination round, a finalist ballot, and winners honored at a gala.

CommunityVotes Bloomington IN Best Of

CommunityVotes Bloomington IN 2025, a readers-choice business awards program at bloomingtonin.communityvotes.com, runs inside Indiana's only CommunityVotes market built substantially around a university, Indiana University Bloomington, rather than a river city or the state's second-largest city. No public category list, vote cap, or close date is confirmed; check the live 2025 page each cycle.

CommunityVotes Carmel

CommunityVotes Carmel is a CommunityVotes readers' choice business ballot for Carmel, Indiana, run at carmel.communityvotes.com, with nominations open June 15 through October 11 in the confirmed 2026 cycle. Beyond that window, no category list or vote cap is published right now. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Evansville Best Of

CommunityVotes Evansville 2026, a Vanderburgh County readers-choice business awards program promoted through two official addresses, evansville.communityvotes.com and yourchoiceawards.com/evansville/, tied to organizers CommunityVotes Evansville and YourChoiceAwards.

CommunityVotes Fort Wayne Best Of

CommunityVotes Fort Wayne runs an annual, all-business-category readers-choice vote at fortwayne.communityvotes.com, with the 2026 cycle nominating businesses April 1 through 30 and voting open June 1 through 16. A separate program, the Journal Gazette's own Readers' Choice, also serves Fort Wayne with its own rules.

CommunityVotes South Bend Best Of

CommunityVotes South Bend 2025, backed by the South Bend Tribune, runs its readers-choice ballot at southbend.communityvotes.com, with the confirmed 2025 cycle voting October 15 through November 16. No public category list, vote cap, or prior-winner record is confirmed beyond that window and the official site.

For Evsc Hangers To Win Grant From State Farm

WGBF, the NewsTalk 1280 talk station, runs a public vote at newstalk1280.com to help Hangers, the EVSC's clothing resource, win a $25,000 grant from State Farm Insurance. The ballot page prints the window as August 16th through August 24th and allows up to 10 votes per supporter per day. Confirmed editions run in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

For The Best Family Restaurant In Evansville

WJLT, a radio station serving Evansville, Indiana, runs a public poll called For The Best Family Restaurant In Evansville on its own website. Readers cast a vote for the family restaurant they think is best in the city. The poll has appeared across editions from 2022 through 2026, with the 2022 ballot published in late February. Exact opening and closing days and any voting rules are not printed, so check the live poll page before each run.

For The Best Hairstylist Or Barber In The Evansville Area

WGBF, a news-talk radio station in Evansville, Indiana, invites listeners to vote for the best hairstylist or barber in the Evansville area on its own website at newstalk1280.com. Five editions have run, in 2022 and every year through 2026. The voting window the station printed falls in April, closing at 11:59pm on a Friday, April 29th. Exact window dates for the current cycle should be read from the live ballot page before a salon asks its clients to vote.

For The Best High School Marching Band In Southern Indiana

WGBF, the news talk station behind newstalk1280.com, runs a public vote for the best high school marching band in Southern Indiana. Unlike the multi-category best-of ballots elsewhere in the state, this is a single fan-chosen award aimed at supporting hard-working student musicians. Annual editions have run every year from 2022 through 2026, and the ballot page announces the winner on Friday, October 28th.

Fort Wayne A-List

Fort Wayne, Indiana's A-List readers'-choice ballot runs through 989thebear.secondstreetapp.com, the Second Street listing WBYR-FM (98.9 The Bear) hosts for the market. The same Federated Media ballot is reachable from sister station sites WOWO, WMEE and K105, and the confirmed 2026 combined nomination-and-voting window runs September 3 through October 14. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Fort Wayne A-List 2026 (989thebear)

The Fort Wayne A-List 2026 is a best-of ballot for the Fort Wayne, Indiana market, run by radio station WBYR-FM on the Second Street platform. Voting opened on 2026-09-03 and closes on 2026-10-14. The ballot is a nomination-and-voting ballot, so supporters can put forward names and then vote for finalists in the same promotion. This is the only edition the station has confirmed so far.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Readers' Choice

The Journal Gazette's annual Fort Wayne Readers' Choice awards run at fortwayne.com/readerschoice, naming a winner plus two finalists in every category. Results publish in a dedicated print pull-out dated October 11, separate from CommunityVotes Fort Wayne Best Of, a different Fort Wayne program run on its own platform.

Fort Wayne Readers' Choice

An annual Fort Wayne business awards program at fortwayne.com. The 2026 cycle nominates through April, opens public voting for a fixed 16-day window from June 1 through June 16, and announces winners July 25. No published category list, vote cap, or ballot structure appears in the confirmed record for this guide.

Forty under 40 Winners

Fort Wayne supporters vote in the Forty under 40 Winners ballot run by Fort Wayne Newspapers on Second Street. The 2026 voting window runs from July 9 to October 1. The ballot honors young local professionals, and supporters pick their picks directly on the public voting page.

Herald Bulletin Best of Madison County

The Herald Bulletin runs Best of Madison County at heraldbulletin2.secondstreetapp.com, a Second Street nominate-then-vote ballot covering Madison County, Indiana. Two confirmed edition years back it, 2025 and 2026, with the confirmed ballot running November 24, 2025 through January 17, 2026. Past that window, the Herald Bulletin's own page is what actually settles a category list or a vote limit, confirmed fresh each cycle.

Herald-Times Boys Athlete of the Week poll

The Herald-Times, an Indiana newspaper, runs a boys Athlete of the Week poll for its high school sports readers on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The ballot is a weekly vote during the season, and 2024 plus 2025 stand as confirmed edition years. The newspaper's own story for the current cycle says the poll stays open until 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, and that readers may vote as often as they wish by refreshing the page. Nominees on a sample ballot competed in track, baseball and golf.

Herald-Times Girls Athlete of the Week poll

Indiana supporters vote in the Herald-Times Girls Athlete of the Week poll on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, where The Herald-Times posts a weekly ballot for high school girls sports. The ballot on file covers May 12-17 and displays Poll Closed, with a girls track relay entry leading the tally. The paper has confirmed seasons across 2024 and 2025, and each new week brings a fresh nominee list.

IHSAA Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Each week of the Indiana boys basketball season, the IHSAA lets fans pick its player of the week through a Crowdsignal poll. The association posts every ballot at poll.fm, and the Feb. 19-24 poll has closed. Confirmed seasons run across 2022, 2023 and 2024. Since nominees are high school players, this reference describes the programme without naming any individual athlete.

Indiana Chamber Awards Program

The Indiana Chamber Awards Program gathers the Indiana Chamber of Commerce's workplace honors on a page of its own site, headlined by Best Places to Work in Indiana and the HR Professional of the Year award. Nominations for the 2026 cycle were due by August 3 and have closed, with winners honored at the chamber's 37th Annual Awards Dinner in Indianapolis on November 5, 2026.

Indiana Contests Readers' Choice

Indiana Contests Readers' Choice is indianacontests.com's statewide readers-choice ballot, spanning 200-plus business categories across multiple Indiana metro markets. Nominations open each July, voting runs in August, and winners are announced in November, through a platform described as a multi-paper aggregation spanning Gannett-network and independently run Indiana outlets.

Indianapolis Monthly Readers' Choice

Indianapolis Monthly's annual reader ballot spanning roughly 150 categories across restaurants, services, shopping, and professionals, run online at vote.indianapolismonthly.com.

IndyStar Baseball Player of the Week for Weeks

IndyStar, the Indianapolis publisher, asks Indiana prep baseball fans each spring week who deserves Player of the Week honors. The vote takes place on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling platform, with confirmed seasons in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. In the most recent ballot a Fishers nominee led with 47 percent of 27,636 votes. The spring window spans April to June, and IndyStar prints that a round closes at noon on Friday.

IndyStar Boys Basketball Player of the Week

A weekly fan vote run by IndyStar during the Indiana high school boys basketball season. Supporters pick one nominated player on Crowdsignal's poll.fm ballot and submit before the weekly cutoff. The most recent confirmed ballot covered a late-January week and has closed, and confirmed seasons stretch back years, with a fresh question and nominee list replacing each poll that ends.

Ivy Tech Journal & Courier 1A/2A Softball Player of the Year

Run by the Journal & Courier, the Lafayette-area Indiana newspaper, the Ivy Tech 1A/2A Softball Player of the Year award goes to whichever nominee wins an open fan vote on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Its 2026 ballot opened in September, closed in November, and finished with the Tri-County nominee at 32 percent on 14,427 votes. Confirmed editions so far are 2023 and 2026.

Ivy Tech Journal & Courier 1A/2A Softball Player of the Year

Where do Indiana supporters vote in the Ivy Tech Journal & Courier 1A/2A Softball Player of the Year? At poll.fm/17132900, a Crowdsignal ballot that opened in September and closed in November 2026. The program honors top softball athletes from Indiana high schools in the 1A and 2A classifications, with voting managed by the Journal-Courier newspaper.

Ivy Tech Male Athlete of the Week

Ivy Tech Journal & Courier runs this Indiana high school sport ballot for communities including Delphi, Crawfordsville and Lafayette. Supporters cast ballots through the Crowdsignal poll.fm platform, and the 2025 season was assembled from nine weekly ballots. Each poll stays open until 5 p.m. ET Friday, and the publisher allows unlimited repeat participation.

KPC News Readers' Choice

Nominations for KPC News Readers' Choice ran April 1 through April 30, according to the FAQ page The News Sun keeps at kpcnews.com. That 2026 cycle then moved into a Voting Round of June 1 through June 16, with winners announced July 25. Three confirmed editions stand behind this Indiana ballot so far: 2024, 2025 and 2026. Beyond those three dates, the FAQ page names no categories and never says whether a repeat visit to the ballot counts twice; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Michiana's A-List

Unlike the separate South Bend and Elkhart County ballots already running in this market, Michiana's A-List is one Second Street listing, hosted at b100.secondstreetapp.com by WBYT-FM (B100) and reachable too from sister Federated Media sites WRBR and 95.3 MNC. The confirmed 2026 window runs September 7 through October 14, currently listed as upcoming. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Michiana's A-List 2026 (b100)

Unlike the CommunityVotes city ballots or the Elkhart County newspaper contest, Michiana's A-List 2026 is a best-of business ballot run by a radio station. WBYT-FM, known on air as B100 in Elkhart, Indiana, hosts it on Second Street. The confirmed 2026 voting window runs September 7 through October 14. It is the station's first confirmed edition of the program, so supporters should treat every detail beyond the dates as something to verify on the ballot itself.

NIBCA NW Indiana Parade of Homes

NIBCA, the NW Indiana Builders & Contractors Association, runs the Parade of Homes with a public vote at poh.nibca.com tied to a defined event window rather than a standing ballot. Specific dates, categories, and entry rules for builders aren't published in the confirmed record; check the live site each cycle.

NW Indiana Business Best of Business

NW Indiana Business Magazine's Best of Business is a business-to-business readers' choice ballot at nwindianabusiness.com, honoring companies across Indiana's Region rather than restaurants or retail. It's the only confirmed B2B "best of" program in the state's contest landscape; specific categories aren't itemized publicly.

Perry County News Readers' Choice Awards

Perry County, Indiana's Readers' Choice Awards run under the Perry County News masthead, part of The Herald group headquartered in Jasper, through the Second Street platform at theherald.secondstreetapp.com, with two editions confirmed so far, 2023 and 2025. The 2025 voting window ran April 14 through May 13, 2025, and has since closed. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Pharos-Tribune Readers' Choice

Logansport · The Pharos-Tribune

The Pharos-Tribune runs Readers' Choice, a readers'-choice ballot for Logansport and Cass County, Indiana, hosted on Second Street at thepharos-tribune.secondstreetapp.com. Four confirmed editions span 2023 through 2026, and the current 2026 Readers Choice listing opens October 28, 2026 and closes January 11, 2027. A category list and a per-voter vote cap are not published beyond that window; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for either detail.

Readers' Choice 2026 R1 Voting

Fort Wayne Newspapers runs Readers' Choice 2026 R1 Voting, a best-of business ballot for the Fort Wayne, Indiana market on Second Street. The 2026 R1 round accepted votes from June 6 through June 15, 2026, and is now closed. The 2025 and 2026 cycles are the confirmed editions of the R1 format, and an R2 voting round also appears on the same Second Street host. The organizer has not published the ballot's category roster here, so supporters and businesses should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Readerschoice Faq (kpcnews)

Readers' Choice is the best-of ballot The News Sun runs for readers across its northeast Indiana newspaper group, hosted on the publisher's own kpcnews.com site. Confirmed cycles ran in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2026 round opened nominations April 1 through April 30, held voting June 1 through June 16, and announced winners July 25. Voting is limited to one vote in each category per person per day.

SIBA Parade of Homes People's Choice

SIBA's (Southern Indiana Builders Association) annual Parade of Homes People's Choice award, voted at sibaparadeofhomes.com/vote/, crowned Jagoe Homes the 2025 winner for its model home at 3075 Hyland Dr in Newburgh. No confirmed category list, vote cap, or close date accompanies that record; confirm specifics on the live site each cycle.

The Herald Best of Dubois County

Jasper · The Herald (theherald.secondstreetapp.com)

Jasper, Indiana's Best of Dubois County is The Herald's Second Street ballot, running under its own dated listing for five confirmed years so far (2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025). Voting for the 2025 edition ran June 28 through July 20, 2025. The page names no categories and states no per-voter cap; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming either one.

The SB Tribune Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Indiana's South Bend Tribune lets readers crown the top player from its girls basketball coverage in a public vote hosted by Crowdsignal through poll.fm. The live window closes Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. This page covers the organizer, the confirmed editions, the ballot mechanic, and the Indiana publisher polls that surround it.

The SB Tribune IHSAA Girls Basketball Preseason Player of the Year

Each preseason, the South Bend Tribune's IHSAA desk runs a fan vote for Indiana high school girls basketball's top player. The SB Tribune IHSAA Girls Basketball Preseason Player of the Year ran most recently in November 2024 on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, listing 21 candidates from 16 schools across the Tribune's coverage area. That ballot has since closed, and the Tribune has not announced the next edition.

The South Bend Tribune Athlete of the Week

The South Bend Tribune runs The South Bend Tribune Athlete of the Week, a high school sport ballot for South Bend, Indiana, with voting on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The confirmed round ran May 25 to June 2, closing Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The paper's story prints no voting restrictions for that round, and the schedule of later rounds has not been published.

The South Bend Tribune Baseball Player of the Year

A public poll decides the South Bend Tribune's Baseball Player of the Year, a high school baseball honor for the paper's coverage area. The South Bend Tribune, the daily newspaper serving South Bend, Indiana, runs the ballot on the Crowdsignal survey platform through its poll.fm short addresses. Its 2026 edition collected votes from June 22 through June 28, 2026, with twenty nominees from seventeen schools in the paper's coverage area. The Tribune states there are no limitations on who can vote. Earlier coverage points to a 2022 edition, and the paper has treated the award as a recurring summer feature.

The Star Press East Central Indiana Preseason Softball Player of the Year

The Star Press runs a preseason girls softball ballot for its East Central Indiana readers, with Crowdsignal's poll.fm service carrying the vote. Confirmed editions sit in 2022 and 2026. The 2026 ballot carried a March voting window before closing. Nominees are players from schools across the paper's coverage area, grouped on a single question ballot. The paper has not published open and close dates, a per-reader voting rule or eligibility text for the honor, so those details belong to the live ballot each time it appears.

The Star Press IU Health Female Athlete of the Year

The Star Press, the Muncie-area newspaper, presents the IU Health Female Athlete of the Year fan vote for high school sport across East Central Indiana, Indiana. The vote itself is run through poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling service. The 2026 edition closed at noon on Friday, July 3, and the published timeline shows runs in 2025 and 2026. No nomination window for the next round has been announced by the paper.

To Assemble The Tri States Local News Dream Team Poll

WJLT, the Evansville-area station behind My WJLT 105.3, runs the To Assemble The Tri States Local News Dream Team Poll on its own website at my1053wjlt.com. The ballot lets listeners back the local television news talent they watch across the Tri-State. Edition years run from 2020 through 2026, and the confirmed window falls in August. Day-level open and close dates, vote limits and eligibility rules are not fixed facts here, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Tribune-Star Readers' Choice

Tribune-Star runs its Trib Star Readers' Choice ballot for Terre Haute, Indiana on Second Street at tribune-star.secondstreetapp.com. Two confirmed editions run 2025 and 2026, with the 2026 ballot opening February 4 and closing March 16. A category list and vote cap stay unpublished past that window; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Tribune-Star Readers' Choice

The Terre Haute Tribune-Star's Readers' Choice awards cover Wabash Valley businesses through an online ballot hosted directly at tribstar.com. Nominations were confirmed open at the time of writing, though the paper doesn't publish a fixed vote cap, exact close date, or full category list. Confirm current specifics on tribstar.com before building a campaign.

Who is the 3A, 4A Journal & Courier baseball player of the year

Journal-Courier, the Lafayette-area publisher, runs a single-question fan poll naming its 3A and 4A baseball honor winner in Indiana. Balloting runs on Crowdsignal, on the poll.fm service. The 2026 poll ran in July, stayed open until noon EST on a Sunday, and the winner was announced the following Monday. The stated rule permits unlimited repeat submissions, so supporters can return to the ballot throughout the window.

Who is the Courier & Press fall sports Athlete of the Week

Each fall, the Courier & Press newspaper puts a slate of Indiana high school fall sports nominees up on Crowdsignal's poll.fm ballot and asks readers to pick an Athlete of the Week. Rounds run from September into November, one per week, and seasons are on the books for 2022, 2024 and 2025. The publisher's stated rule lets supporters refresh the page and cast repeat votes until the 5 p.m. CDT Friday deadline.

Who is the Courier & Press spring sports Athlete of the Week

The Evansville Courier & Press invites readers to pick a spring sports Athlete of the Week through weekly Crowdsignal ballots during the Indiana high school spring season. Confirmed editions run in 2022 and 2025, with polls live from March through May. Repeat voting is allowed until the Friday morning cutoff, and each week brings its own slate of nominees.

Who is the preseason Herald-Times boys basketball player of the year

The Herald-Times invites readers across Indiana to name its preseason boys basketball player of the year through a fan ballot on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling service. Editions ran in 2022 and 2024, and the voting window falls in November. The 2024 ballot is shown as closed, so supporters waiting on the next edition should confirm on the live ballot each cycle. This page collects the facts a reader needs: who publishes the vote, where it sits, when it runs, and how a ballot is cast.

Who is the SB Tribune Athlete of the Week

South Bend, Indiana's weekly high school sports poll from the South Bend Tribune lets readers pick each week's top athlete, with the vote hosted on Crowdsignal's poll.fm. The confirmed window covers Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, published editions go back through 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The paper leaves the category list and any repeat-vote rule off the ballot page.

Who is the South Bend Tribune Boys Athlete of the Year

Where do South Bend supporters vote in the South Bend Tribune Boys Athlete of the Year race? On Crowdsignal's poll.fm service, on the ballot the newspaper links from its sports story. The Tribune's own story said the poll was open with no voting limits until Wednesday, July 8 at 11:59 p.m. ET. That window has now passed and the poll shows as closed. Confirmed edition years are 2022 and 2026, the program counts as annual, and the next round is expected in 2027. This page lays out who runs the vote, where the ballot lives, what the Tribune has and has not published, and how a supporter in the South Bend, Indiana market votes when the next poll opens.

Who should be The Star Press East Central Indiana Preseason Softball Player of the Year

The Star Press East Central Indiana runs a reader poll that names a preseason softball player of the year for East Central Indiana high schools. Crowdsignal serves the ballot at poll.fm, and its confirmed voting window falls in March, before the spring season begins. Confirmed edition years are 2022 and 2026, and the current ballot is labeled closed. Nominees come from area schools such as Wes-Del, Cowan, Delta, Shenandoah, Monroe Central, Yorktown, Daleville and Jay County.

Who should be The Star Press IU Health boys basketball Preseason Player of the Year

A public-vote preseason award for Indiana high school boys basketball, this Star Press IU Health ballot runs on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Its 2025-26 edition opened for voting in November 2025 and now shows a closed notice. Nominees are paired with schools such as New Castle, Wapahani, Yorktown, Monroe Central and Delta. Exact window dates and voting rules were never printed by the organizer.

Who should be The Star Press IU Health Female Athlete of the Year

The Star Press IU Health runs a public poll each July that asks readers to choose the Female Athlete of the Year for the finished high school sports season. Ballots sit on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, covering girls across Indiana prep programs for the 2025-26 cycle and again the following year.

Who should be The Star Press IU Health Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Each February, The Star Press and IU Health post a poll asking readers to name the season's top Indiana girls basketball athlete. The 2024-25 edition, hosted on Crowdsignal as poll 15108910, has closed. 2024 and 2025 are the edition years confirmed so far. The organizer gives no opening or closing days and no per-person rule, so the next window's details rest with the live ballot when it appears.

YourChoiceAwards South Bend Best Of

YourChoiceAwards South Bend runs a business readers-choice ballot at yourchoiceawards.com/southbend/, a separate platform from the city's other confirmed CommunityVotes program. Public records tie it to the same broader operating network, though no category list, vote cap, or close date is confirmed for this specific address.

Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest

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Bougie Pet Pawtography puts on the Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest, a fundraiser for the Hobart, Indiana shelter, with an entry gallery that lives at gogophotocontest.com/hsh, part of the GoGo Photo Contest network. The shelter's calendar has reached its second dated round, 2025 into 2026. That first round ran the entire month of April, opening at 12:00 AM Central time on April 1 and closing at 11:59:59 PM Central time on April 30. Photos placing second through twelfth each land one month in the 2026 calendar, picked in order of finish. What the ballot categories are, and how often one person may vote: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest

Pet owners around Hobart, Indiana enter the Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest by uploading a favorite photo of their animal and rallying friends to vote. The shelter's entry gallery sits at gogophotocontest.com/hsh on the GoGo Photo Contest network, and the shelter bills the whole thing as a fundraiser for its own programs. The 2025 voting period covered the full month of April, and a 2026 edition followed it. Entries, votes and month placements decide which pets appear on the shelter's printed calendar.