Iowa Online Voting Contests

Des Moines Register Athlete of the Week

Des Moines · Des Moines Register (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at desmoinesregister.com, run by the Des Moines Register (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring the top Central Iowa prep athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed. Covers CIML, Iowa Alliance Conference, Little Hawkeye, and metro-area schools.

Iowa Boys Soccer Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa naming Iowa's boys soccer Player of the Year by class. Candidates are published in a dedicated SI article; per-class winners are announced after the state tournament. Free vote, no account required.

Iowa Class 1A Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top boys basketball player in Iowa's Class 1A each season. Free public vote, no account required; the 2024-25 preseason ballot drew over 12,000 total votes.

Iowa Class 1A Football Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa for Iowa's Class 1A football division. A confirmed 2025 preseason ballot featured seven nominees; end-of-season voting has also run on the platform. Free public vote, no account required.

Iowa Class 1A Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Annual High School on SI / SBLive award naming the top player in Iowa's IGHSAU Class 1A girls basketball — the smallest girls classification — with an editorial announcement after the March state tournament.

Iowa Class 2A Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top boys basketball player in Iowa's Class 2A each season. Free public vote, no account required; preseason and end-of-season cycles both confirmed active.

Iowa Class 2A Football Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top football player in Iowa's Class 2A each season. Free public vote, no account required; separate end-of-season and preseason cycles both confirmed.

Iowa Class 2A Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote recognition from High School on SI / SBLive for Iowa's IGHSAU Class 2A girls basketball, with a preseason ballot and an editorial award announced after the March state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.

Iowa Class 3A Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Annual public-vote Iowa Class 3A boys basketball recognition from High School on SI / SBLive, with preseason voting, midseason finalist coverage, and a March award cycle tied to the IHSAA winter season.

Iowa Class 3A Football Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top football player among Iowa's mid-enrollment schools. The 2024 winner, Coen Matson of Humboldt, also captured the overall Iowa Football Player of the Year with 64.71 percent of all-class votes.

Iowa Class 3A Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award from High School on SI / SBLive naming the top girls basketball player in Iowa's IGHSAU Class 3A each season, with a preseason ballot and end-of-season editorial award after the March state tournament.

Iowa Class 4A Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Annual High School on SI / SBLive Iowa boys basketball recognition for Class 4A players, with public preseason and finalist voting tied to the IHSAA winter season.

Iowa Class 4A Football Player of the Year

Annual end-of-season fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa recognizing the top football player from Iowa's mid-large enrollment schools. Free public poll, no login required, closes November 30.

Iowa Class 4A Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top girls basketball player in Iowa's IGHSAU Class 4A each season. Free public vote, no account required; both 2024-25 and 2025-26 cycles confirmed active.

Iowa Class 5A Football Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa honoring the top football player among Iowa's largest-enrollment schools. Free public poll, no account needed; closes November 30 each season.

Iowa Class 5A Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Annual High School on SI / SBLive Iowa girls basketball award covering the IGHSAU Class 5A level, with fan finalist voting before the post-state tournament winner is announced.

Iowa Class A Football Player of the Year

Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa for Iowa's Class A — the smallest eleven-player IHSAA division. Confirmed 2024 nominees include Brady Bixel and Carter Kunze, who also starred in the 2024 title game. Free public vote, no account required; poll closes November 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Iowa Football Player of the Year — Class 1A

Statewide Iowa (Class 1A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 1A programs — a small-school tier of roughly 48 schools enrolling well under 200 students. A confirmed 2025 preseason ballot opened in August; a season-ending edition follows the playoffs each November, free and open with no account required.

Iowa Football Player of the Year — Class 2A

Statewide Iowa (Class 2A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 2A programs — the state's fourth-largest IHSAA enrollment tier, roughly 48 schools. A preseason ballot opens in August; a season-ending edition follows the playoffs and closes near November 30, free and open with no account required.

Iowa Football Player of the Year — Class 3A

Statewide Iowa (Class 3A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 3A programs — the state's third-largest enrollment tier, roughly 36 schools. A preseason ballot opens in August; a season-ending edition follows the playoffs and closes near November 30, free and open with no account required.

Iowa Football Player of the Year — Class 4A

Statewide Iowa (Class 4A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan poll from High School on SI (formerly SBLive Sports) naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 4A programs — the state's second-largest enrollment tier, roughly 36 schools sitting just below the 5A cutoff. The ballot runs a preseason edition in August and a season-ending edition that closes around November 30, free to the public with no account required.

Iowa Football Player of the Year — Class A

Statewide Iowa (Class A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive)

Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top player among Iowa's Class A programs, the state's smallest eleven-player IHSAA tier and a separate division from the 8-Player class. A preseason ballot opens in August; the season-ending edition follows the November playoffs, closing near November 30, free and open with no account required.

Iowa Football Preseason Player of the Year — Class 2A

Statewide Iowa (Class 2A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Summer fan vote from High School on SI, naming preseason favorites among Iowa's Class 2A football programs before the season's first snap. Covers the state's fourth-largest IHSAA enrollment tier, roughly 48 schools. The 2025 window opened in August and closed around August 24, free and separate from November's season-ending Class 2A ballot.

Iowa Football Preseason Player of the Year — Class 3A

Statewide Iowa (Class 3A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Summer fan vote from High School on SI, naming preseason favorites among Iowa's Class 3A football programs before the season's first snap. Covers the state's third-largest IHSAA enrollment tier, roughly 36 schools. The 2025 window opened in August and closed around August 24, free and separate from November's season-ending Class 3A ballot.

Iowa Girls Basketball Player of the Year – Class 5A

Statewide Iowa · High School on SI / SBLive

High School on SI runs an open, uncapped finalist vote each February for Iowa's IGHSAU Class 5A girls basketball field, then confirms the season's Player of the Year after the March state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena. No account and no per-device limit; the award itself isn't decided by raw vote count alone.

Iowa High School Athlete of the Week

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

Weekly statewide fan poll on High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) recognising outstanding Iowa prep athletes from every IHSAA conference and classification — Cedar Rapids to Sioux City, Dubuque to Council Bluffs. Voting at si.com/high-school/iowa, free, no account. Closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. PT.

Iowa High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual class-by-class fan-vote award for Iowa prep boys basketball, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa. Covers all four IHSAA boys basketball classes (1A–4A). Free public vote, no account required, closes at 11:59 p.m. PT on the published end date.

Iowa High School Football Player of the Week

High School on SI runs Iowa's only statewide weekly fan-vote poll at si.com, closing every Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. During football season the ballot carries 4–14 football nominees alongside other fall sports — a multi-sport structure that shapes how campaigns win.

Iowa High School Player of the Year

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

Annual statewide fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa, naming a Player of the Year in each IHSAA class for football, basketball, soccer, and other sports. Free public vote, no account required, closes at 11:59 p.m. PT on the final poll date.

Iowa High School Volleyball Player of the Year

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

Annual class-by-class fan-vote award for Iowa girls volleyball run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa. Covers all five IGHSAU classifications (1A–5A) in the fall season. Free public vote, no account required, closes at 11:59 p.m. PT on the published end date.

Iowa High School Wrestler of the Year

Statewide Iowa · iawrestle.com

Annual statewide award run by iawrestle.com naming a Dan Gable Mr. and Ms. Wrestler of the Year across Iowa boys and girls classes. Public fan voting runs two rounds each winter season at iawrestle.com — free, once per day per voter — and the fan ballot is one of thirteen weighted votes deciding the final winner. IHSAA / IGHSAU sanctioned.

KWQC-TV6 Spotlight Athlete of the Week

Quad Cities (Davenport, Bettendorf, Clinton, Maquoketa) · KWQC-TV6 (NBC affiliate)

The weekly Quad Cities fan vote run by KWQC-TV6 (NBC) at kwqc.com, spotlighting standout Iowa and Illinois prep athletes from Davenport, Bettendorf, Clinton, and Maquoketa to the Illinois side of the river. Free public poll, no account required, closes Wednesday at noon.

2026 Ankeny's Best Community's Choice Awards Winners

Ankeny's Best Community's Choice Awards is a best-of business ballot that The Des Moines Register runs for Ankeny, Iowa, with Second Street as host. The 2026 edition opened February 27 and closed February 28. Four straight editions have now been held, the earliest recorded in 2023.

2026 ARL Happy Tails Calendar Photo Contest

The Animal Rescue League of Iowa invites pet owners to feature their animals in its Happy Tails calendar through a photo ballot hosted at gogophotocontest.com. Entering costs a $25 donation, and every $1 donated counts as a vote toward that photo. Photos reaching at least 25 votes earn a copy of the 2026 calendar. Confirmed editions cover 2025 and 2026, with the 2026 photo entry deadline falling on Aug. 31.

2026 Best of Story County Community's Choice Awards

The Ames Tribune, the daily newspaper serving Ames and Story County in Iowa, runs the Best of Story County Community's Choice Awards on the Second Street balloting platform. Readers nominate local businesses and then vote for finalists across the ballot. The 2026 voting window ran from August 3 to August 18, 2026, and confirmed editions reach back to 2023. Category lists, vote limits and any eligibility rules are not carried on the pages this site can quote, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

2026 Metro's Best Community's Choice Awards - Noms

The Des Moines Register puts its Metro's Best Community's Choice Awards ballot in front of readers across the Des Moines, Iowa market each year on Second Street. The 2026 nomination and voting round opened on May 7 and closed on August 11, 2026. This page gathers what is confirmed about the program, its host platform and its Iowa neighbours.

A Year of Paws

A Year of Paws is the annual pet photo contest and fundraiser run by the Friends of the Animal Center Foundation in Iowa City, Iowa. The ballot sits on the GoGo Photo Contest platform, and confirmed editions are on file for 2021 and 2026. The 2026 cycle accepted photo entries from the morning of a Monday in early June through late July, all on Central Time. Proceeds from the fundraiser support shelter animals, and the calendar cover pet is featured the following January.

AHBA Parade of Homes

Ames Home Builders Association's annual Parade of Homes sends the public through newly built and remodeled houses across the Ames trade area, with a people's choice vote component built into the tour. Voting details and the current entry list are published at ameshomebuilders.com; exact dates and any vote cap should be confirmed each cycle.

Alumni Alumni Awards (clarke)

Clarke University runs the Alumni Awards programme from clarke.edu in Dubuque, Iowa. Its Alumni Association Board recognizes three exceptional alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards. The current banner states that the 2027 Distinguished Alumni Awards are open and collecting nominations until April 16, 2027. The ballot is hosted on the university's own site, the page also lists winner pages for the Humanitarian Service and Outstanding Achievement Awards, and no day-level window dates or category list are printed on it.

Ankeny's Best Community's Choice Awards

Ankeny · The Des Moines Register

Ankeny, Iowa, is home to Ankeny's Best Community's Choice Awards, a Second Street ballot The Des Moines Register runs at desmoinesregister.gannettcontests.com. Four editions are confirmed, 2023 through 2026, and the 2026 edition has already closed, its winners confirmed February 27 and 28, 2026. Neither a category roster nor a vote cap appears on the page; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Cedar Rapids (The Gazette)

The Cedar Rapids Gazette's annual Best of Cedar Rapids readers-choice program at thegazette.com, run by the city's daily newspaper alongside two other local ballots, Cedar Rapids CommunityVotes and the Corridor Business Journal's Best of the Corridor, each with its own categories, calendar, and voting format.

Best of Des Moines (Business Record)

The Des Moines Business Record's annual open reader survey across 75 B2B categories, from Best Bank to Best Company to Work For, with one straight ballot and no separate nomination round.

Best of Des Moines (CITYVIEW)

CITYVIEW's annual Des Moines readers-choice awards, run as a fill-in-the-blank write-in ballot at best.dmcityview.com rather than a dropdown of pre-loaded nominees, with no pay-to-play component tying placement to advertising spend. Voting runs September 1 through November 30 each year, and the 2026 cycle is confirmed active on the organizer's site.

Best of Des Moines (YourChoice Awards)

YourChoiceAwards, a Gannett-affiliated readers-choice program, invites the Des Moines metro to nominate and then vote for local businesses at yourchoiceawards.com/desmoines/. Winners are honored at an awards gala and published in print, a mechanic that sets it apart from the metro's other readers-choice ballots.

Best of Southern Iowa (Ottumwa Courier)

Ottumwa · Ottumwa Courier

Southern Iowa businesses compete each year in the Ottumwa Courier's Best of Southern Iowa ballot, hosted on Second Street at ottumwacourier.secondstreetapp.com. The program has run three times, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the most recent window opened July 18 and closed August 8. The listing skips two specifics a nominee might expect - what categories exist, and any ceiling on how often one supporter can vote; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before the next round opens.

Best Of Southern Iowa 2026 (ottumwacourier)

Best Of Southern Iowa is the Ottumwa Courier readers' choice poll for local businesses across southern Iowa, hosted each summer on Second Street. The 2026 ballot opened July 18 and closed August 8. Confirmed editions ran in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the newspaper describes the poll as annual. The full category list is not published ahead of the window.

Best of Story County Community's Choice Awards

Ames · Ames Tribune

Ames Tribune runs the Best of Story County Community's Choice Awards, its readers'-choice business ballot for Story County, Iowa, hosted on Second Street at amestrib.gannettcontests.com. The confirmed history opens in 2023 and now spans four editions, the newest closing its voting window on August 18, 2026, after opening August 3. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A Story County business weighing this ballot is working from four straight years of activity, not a single trial run.

Best of the Corridor

Corridor Business Journal's B2B and consumer readers-choice ballot spanning Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, now two decades running, with open public nomination and voting across 49-53 categories each summer.

Best of the Quad Cities (Quad City Times)

Quad City Times' confirmed readers-choice contest at qctimes.com/contests/best-of-the-quad-cities, covering the bistate Quad Cities metro on both the Iowa and Illinois banks of the Mississippi River, run under the paper's standard readers-choice ballot format.

Best of the West Awards

West Des Moines businesses and the people who use them face off in the Best of the West Awards, a public-vote ballot run by the West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce on the chamber's own site. Editions in 2025 and 2026 are confirmed, the cycle is anchored to December, and the chamber printed a numbered roster of voting categories for 2026. Exact window dates and any per-person vote rule go unstated on the page itself.

Bestofthefest

Bestofthefest is the fan vote that Jazz 88.3 KCCK, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa radio station, runs from its own web domain for the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Listeners pick their favorite all-time festival performance from a list drawn from the station's archive. Confirmed editions run in 2019, 2020, 2025 and 2026, with the July window closing at midnight before a July 4 playback special.

Cedar Rapids CommunityVotes

Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business awards for Cedar Rapids and Linn County, with open nominations, a public ballot, and category-based local business voting, covered locally by KHAK radio.

Des Moines CommunityVotes

Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business awards for Des Moines and Polk County, with open nominations, a public ballot, and category-based local business voting.

Des Moines Family Favorite Awards

Des Moines Parent runs the Des Moines Family Favorite Awards, a readership ballot where families around Des Moines, Iowa pick their favorite local places to shop, play, eat and find service providers. Voting happens on the organizer's own website, and the publisher has confirmed the next vote for October 2026. Confirmed editions so far cover 2025 and 2026. Des Moines Parent has printed no day-level window and no per-person voting rule for the coming round, so the live ballot page remains the only reliable source for those details.

Des Moines Register Female AOTW Poll

The Des Moines Register Female AOTW Poll lets Iowa readers pick a female Athlete of the Week on a poll.fm ballot run through Crowdsignal. The Register, the Des Moines newspaper, posts a new ballot for each week of high school competition, and confirmed editions run in 2023 and 2024. One recorded ballot covered Aug. 25-31 and has since closed. The page below explains who runs the vote, the way a supporter takes part, and what the organizer has left unprinted about rules and dates.

Des Moines Register Male AOTW Poll

The Des Moines Register runs a male athlete of the week poll for Iowa high school sports on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The confirmed ballot covered Aug. 25-31 and closed with the leading nominee from Des Moines holding 65 percent of 1,839 votes. Edition years on file are 2023 and 2024, and the publisher has not announced the next cycle.

Des Moines Register Register Student of the Week

The Des Moines Register Register Student of the Week is a weekly recognition poll for Iowa high schoolers, run by The Des Moines Register in Des Moines. Ballots sit on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling service, and confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2024, with each season stretching from September through April. Every ballot closes after a short run, so supporters who want a nominee to finish near the top need to act inside that week rather than waiting out a long cycle.

DSM People's Choice

DSM People's Choice, a Des Moines, Iowa readers-choice program run at dsmpeopleschoice.com, operates independently of CITYVIEW's Best of Des Moines ballot. The confirmed public record does not include a published category list, vote cap, or fixed voting window, so businesses should check dsmpeopleschoice.com directly each cycle for current rules.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald Best Of

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald's regional readers-choice best-of program, confirmed active by the organizer but without a published voting URL, category list, or ballot format in the record checked for this guide; those specifics need direct verification on telegraphherald.com each cycle.

For B100s Halloween Pumpkin Champion

For B100s Halloween Pumpkin Champion is a public-vote pumpkin contest from KBEA-FM, hosted on b100quadcities.com. Editions are confirmed for 2018 and 2019, then 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and finally 2026, and the 2018 ballot closed on October 30. Listeners submit pumpkin photos and visitors pick a champion. Current window dates are not printed anywhere, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For Eastern Iowas Super Server

KRNA, the eastern Iowa rock radio station at 94.1 on the dial, runs For Eastern Iowas Super Server, a public-vote salute to favorite servers in the eastern Iowa area. Listeners nominate their picks first, then vote among the finalists published at krna.com. The ballot page carried a closing deadline of Monday, October 30 at 11:59 p.m. Confirmed runs span 2018 through 2026.

For K Hawk Countrys Cutest Couple Poll

KHAK, an Iowa country radio station, runs the K-Hawk Country's Cutest Couple Poll on khak.com, where the public picks a couple for a concert trip. The window the station has shown falls in October, and the poll has run across seven edition years from 2019 through 2026. Exact close days, a vote ceiling and eligibility terms are not published with the ballot, so read the live poll page before planning a push.

For Quad Cities River Bandits For The Best View In The Minors

Quad Cities, Iowa's Best View in the Minors vote is run by KBEA-FM, the B100 station behind b100quadcities.com. The ballot asks one question: does Modern Woodmen park, home of the Quad Cities River Bandits, hold the best view in Minor League Baseball? The station's page says voting ends August 15th. Unlike the citywide readers-choice contests elsewhere in Iowa, this is a single-topic fan vote on the station's own site.

For This Colona Coach To Win Most Valuable Coach

KBEA-FM, the Quad Cities station behind B100, is asking listeners to vote for this Colona coach in the Most Valuable Coach race. If coach Malmstrom finishes among the finalists whose vote totals are announced October 1st, Colona Grade School collects $5,000, and the winning coaches' schools share donations that reach $50,000 at the top. The campaign has appeared on the B100 site across several fall cycles. Anyone backing the school can vote directly on the station's ballot page.

For Your Favorites In Iowas Pulled Pork Madness Bracket

Pulled Pork Madness is not a readers'-choice poll with a long category list. It is a head-to-head restaurant bracket run each March by KCRR, an Iowa radio station, on the station's own site. Sixteen restaurants make the field, nominations open at 8 a.m. on March 1, and supporters vote round by round until one restaurant is crowned the winner.

Iowa City Community's Choice Awards

YourChoiceAwards runs Iowa City Community's Choice Awards, a Gannett-affiliated readers-choice program, at yourchoiceawards.com/iowacity/, where the public nominates and votes for local businesses. No published category list, vote cap, or fixed nomination and close dates accompany those confirmed facts; verify current-cycle specifics directly on the organizer's site.

Iowa City Parade of Homes People's Choice

Iowa City Area HBA runs a Parade of Homes People's Choice award decided during the tour itself, not on a public ballot page. H&H Home Builders took the 2025 title. No standalone vote portal turned up in research for this guide, so confirm the current mechanic straight from the organizer.

Iowa's Best Burger Contest

WHO-13's Iowa's Best Burger Contest narrows roughly 400 nominated restaurants down to a statewide Top 10, then decides the winner by online vote. The 2025 champion was Halftime Bar & Grill in Pleasantville, chosen from about 6,000 votes cast. The 2026 Top 10 is already named at weareiowa.com, with the current vote count pending.

Iowas Best Local Band

KRNA, a rock radio station broadcasting at 94.1 on the dial in Iowa, runs Iowas Best Local Band, a music ballot it publishes at its own krna.com address. Supporters nominate a favorite local band, the strongest nominees form a Top Ten, and listeners then vote for the winner. Editions are confirmed for 2017 and 2019, and again for every April cycle from 2022 through 2026. Day-level dates and any vote limit are not printed, so check the live ballot.

Madison County poll

The Madison County Residents' Choice Poll is organized by Winterset Living magazine, a locally owned title in the Iowa Living Magazines family, and the ballot sits on the magazine's own Madison County page instead of a separate voting brand. The ballot is addressed to Madison County residents in Iowa, and the printed window for the 2026 cycle runs from August 5, 2026 through October 2, 2026. A VOTE HERE link on that page opens the county's fill-in ballot.

Siouxland's Choice

Sioux City Journal's annual Siouxland's Choice readers-choice awards run in two phases, nomination then voting, with winners published each year in the paper's February Weekender. The 2025 cycle drew 32,412 nominations and 357,332 votes from 8,624 participants across the Siouxland region.

Waterloo CommunityVotes

CommunityVotes' annual Waterloo and Cedar Falls readers-choice business awards at waterloo.communityvotes.com, run in nominate-then-vote rounds across food, drink, retail, and services categories, with 2025 and 2026 cycles both live on the organizer's site.

2025 Pet Calendar Contest

Friends of the Animal Center Foundation runs the 2025 Pet Calendar Contest as a public-vote fundraiser on its own facf.org website. Pet owners in Iowa City, Iowa enter their animals and then rally friends and family to vote. The entry page prints entries and voting from June 1 through July 31, charges $10 to enter, and prices each vote at $1. Confirmed editions cover 2024 and 2025, and the page describes the fundraiser as its 5th annual contest.

For Iowas Best Burger In The Battle Against New Yorks (koel)

KOEL, an Iowa radio station, hosts a public burger vote built around a beef-off between the Iowa Beef Industry Council and a rival council from New York. Confirmed editions cover 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the latest cycle crowned Dixie's Biergarten as Iowa's best burger. The ballot lives on koel.com, the station's own site. Voting dates, any vote cap and round timing are not printed ahead of the next cycle.

Now On The For The Caseys Midwest Mystery Pizza

KHAK, the eastern Iowa country station behind 98.1 KHAK, runs a public vote on its own site to name the Casey's 'Midwest Mystery Pizza'. Supporters pick from a set of finalists the station has already chosen. The ballot has appeared across six separate years, and the live cycle's voting closes on September 23rd.