Kansas Online Voting Contests

Arizona Daily Star Capital-Journal Boys Basketball Player of the Year

The Arizona Daily Star Capital-Journal boys basketball player of the year poll appears on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) at the listed URL. Source data shows confirmed editions in 2022 and 2025 and associates voting activity with March. Exact opening and closing timestamps, category lists and per-voter rules must be checked on the live ballot each cycle.

Catchy Awards Kansas High School Athletics

The annual Catch It Kansas fan vote from KWCH 12 (Scripps) honoring Kansas high school sports across roughly 30 categories statewide — Best Player, Best Team, Best Moment, and Best Coach across KSHSAA classifications. About 3,000 fans cast ballots each edition at catchitkansas.com, with winners revealed at a June broadcast ceremony.

DiRenna Awards Kansas City Basketball Player of the Year

Kansas City metro (Kansas side) · KSHB 41 (Scripps) / Kansas City area media

The DiRenna Awards name the Kansas City metro's boys' and girls' basketball Player of the Year through public fan voting, run by KSHB 41 (Scripps) and covering both the Kansas and Missouri sides of the metro. The award has run annually since 1954, making it one of the longest-running high school basketball honors in the region, and unlike the statewide Kansas Athlete of the Week poll, it recognizes basketball only.

ESPN Wichita High School Athlete of the Week

Wichita · ESPN Wichita 92.3 (espnwichita.com)

Weekly fan-vote recognition from ESPN Wichita 92.3, honoring one standout high school performance from schools across the Wichita radio market each week. The ballot posts directly at espnwichita.com/athleteoftheweek — the station's own page, not the SBLive or Sports Illustrated network several other Kansas polls use. No account required to vote.

Greater Wichita Sports Banquet Athlete of the Year

Greater Wichita metro, Kansas · Wichita Sports Commission

The Wichita Sports Commission selects winners of its annual Greater Wichita Sports Banquet awards through a media panel, not a public fan vote. Eight categories span high school, college, and professional athletes and coaches. Finalists become public knowledge ahead of the June ceremony, driving nomination interest rather than vote totals.

Kansas High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Kansas · KSHB 41 / Hy-Vee (Scripps Media NBC affiliate)

Free weekly Kansas prep sports award presented by Hy-Vee and KSHB 41 (Scripps Media NBC affiliate, Kansas City). KSHB sports staff selects nominees from KSHSAA-member schools across all six classifications; fans vote free online at kshb.com with no account required. Runs year-round through every KSHSAA season.

The Gardner News Early Girls Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year

The Gardner News presents a public-vote sport award in Kansas, hosted on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) at the URL https://poll.fm/16437318. The programme has confirmed editions in 2023 and 2025, and the entry is listed under the title The Gardner News Early Girls Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

Topeka Capital-Journal Athlete of the Week

Topeka · Topeka Capital-Journal (Gannett)

Weekly free fan vote run by the Topeka Capital-Journal (Gannett/USA Today Network) covering Topeka-area KSHSAA schools across every sport and season. Nominations go to [email protected]; the ballot runs on cjonline.com and closes Thursday at noon. No account or sign-up is needed to cast a vote.

Topeka Capital-Journal High School Athlete of the Week

Topeka · Topeka Capital-Journal / Gannett

The Topeka Capital-Journal's weekly multi-sport fan vote covering the Topeka metro area — any KSHSAA sport, any season, closes midday Thursday or Friday depending on the week. Coaches and parents submit to reporter Liam Keating; readers vote free via an embedded Gannett poll widget at cjonline.com.

WIBW Scholar Athlete of the Week

Topeka & northeast Kansas (WIBW viewing area) · WIBW-TV (Topeka CBS affiliate, Gray Television)

Annual recognition series from WIBW-TV, Topeka's CBS affiliate, sponsored by Kaw Valley Bank and Cable Dahmer. WIBW's sports desk names one northeast Kansas student each week for combined academic and athletic achievement. Selection is editorial, not a public fan-vote ballot: there is no cap, tally, or leaderboard published for this program.

Wichita ESPYs Athlete of the Year

Wichita metro, Kansas · ESPN Wichita 92.3 / 810 WHB-AM

ESPN Wichita 92.3 and 810 WHB-AM run the annual Honorary ESPYs fan vote each June, covering roughly eight to ten categories — high school, small college, and professional athletes across the Wichita metro. The public votes at 810whb.com; no purchase or account is required to cast a ballot.

2026 Salina Community's Choice Awards

The 2026 Salina Community's Choice Awards is the Salina Journal's public-vote ballot for Salina, Kansas, hosted on Second Street. Voting for the 2026 cycle ran July 17 through August 1, and cycles have run in each of 2024, 2025 and 2026. The ballot's category list and any rule on repeat voting are not carried on the pages available to us, so read the live ballot before building any campaign.

Alumni Careers For Alumni Alumni Awards Recognitions

Emporia State University in Kansas runs the Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni recognition through its alumni awards pages. The award program began in 1960 and more than 200 alumni have received the honor since then. Nominations for consideration during the upcoming calendar year are due by October 31, and nominations arriving after that date are considered for the following year. Confirmed edition years run 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. Emporia State publishes the ballot on emporia.edu itself, not on a commercial voting platform, which separates it from Kansas reader-choice contests.

Best of Johnson County

The Johnson County Post's open readers-choice ballot, spanning 200+ categories with a $500 voter incentive drawing, covering Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee, and Lenexa on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro.

Best of KC (Kansas City Magazine)

Kansas City Magazine's annual Best of KC readers-choice program, with nominations typically opening around January and a public community vote running near March, including a category set specific to Johnson County, Kansas alongside the magazine's broader metro-wide ballot.

Best of Lawrence

The Lawrence Journal-World / Sunflower Publishing readers-choice awards, a nominate-then-vote ballot that drew 89,000+ nominations and 369,000+ votes in 2025, with winners printed in a standalone Best of Lawrence magazine.

Best of Leavenworth County 2026

A Leavenworth County business nominated into Best of Leavenworth County 2026 faces a timeline the Leavenworth Times prints plainly and a rules sheet it does not. Nominations closed August 30, 2026, the voting round runs September 26 through October 11, 2026, and winners are announced November 28, 2026. What the ballot does not show is any category roster, per-supporter limit or eligibility wording, so a business campaigning for customer support has to plan around a public vote whose mechanics live on the ballot itself. This page lays out the confirmed dates, the voting route and the gaps in one place.

Best of Wichita

The Wichita Eagle's annual readers-choice awards, a nominate-then-vote ballot spanning 248 categories, with 634,000+ votes cast in the 2025 edition and winners printed in a dedicated Eagle special section.

Classroom Champions 2025

Classroom Champions is the Manhattan Mercury's public-vote ballot for Manhattan, Kansas, hosted on Second Street. The platform listing shows the program in 2024 and 2025, with the 2025 nomination-and-voting window spanning April 28 through December 2. The paper has not published a category roster or supporter rules, and a 2026 edition is the next expected run.

CommunityVotes Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas has its own readers' choice business ballot through the CommunityVotes network, running at lawrenceks.communityvotes.com, where the 2026 nomination window opened June 2 and closes September 27. Beyond that window, the site doesn't spell out a category list, nor does it name a vote cap; the live page is where to look up either one.

CommunityVotes Olathe

Olathe · CommunityVotes Olathe

Olathe, Kansas runs its own city-specific edition of the national CommunityVotes readers-choice platform at olathe.communityvotes.com, separate from Overland Park's and Topeka's editions elsewhere in the state. A June 2-September 27 nomination window for 2026 is printed directly on the page and backed by an open market-listing status. Nothing about the category slate, a vote cap, or a voting-close date appears past that window.

CommunityVotes Overland Park

CommunityVotes Overland Park's own business readers-choice ballot at overlandpark.communityvotes.com, run separately from the Kansas City-wide CommunityVotes program and from Best of Johnson County and Best of KC, the two other ballots already covering the same suburb. No confirmed category list or vote cap is published for Overland Park specifically.

CommunityVotes Shawnee

Shawnee, Kansas sits inside Johnson County in the Kansas City metro, and the CommunityVotes network runs the city's own readers' choice business ballot, CommunityVotes Shawnee, at shawnee.communityvotes.com. Nominations for the 2026 cycle opened June 2 and stay open through September 27. Which categories apply and how many votes a supporter gets go unstated past that date; confirm both on the live site.

CommunityVotes Shawnee

CommunityVotes Shawnee is a community awards ballot for Shawnee, Kansas, run by CommunityVotes as a local partner and hosted on the CommunityVotes platform at shawnee.communityvotes.com. The 2026 edition is live, and its nomination period runs from June 2 to September 27. Anyone can nominate the businesses, people and services they think make the city good. Confirmed editions also ran in 2022 and 2024, and the program is structured as an annual cycle.

CommunityVotes Topeka

CommunityVotes Topeka is a separate readers-choice business ballot at topeka.communityvotes.com, run by the CommunityVotes network rather than the Topeka Capital-Journal's Gannett-run Community's Choice Awards. Same city, different organizer, different platform, and a nomination step that has nothing to do with the Capital-Journal's five-tier results.

Early Season Early Baseball Player of the Year

This Kansas ballot lets the public pick a standout high school baseball player during the season's opening stretch. Early Season is the named organizer and Crowdsignal at poll.fm is the host, with editions in 2023 and 2026 and the 2026 window inside April. The organizer publishes no dates, category structure or voting limits ahead of a cycle.

Early Season Early Softball Player of the Year

A nominated softball player's support window is short, and this ballot gives no printed dates to plan around. Early Season runs the Early Season Early Softball Player of the Year, a Kansas high school softball fan vote that lives on the poll.fm ballot service run by Crowdsignal. Edition years on file are 2023 and 2026, and the 2026 ballot fell in April. The page below sets out what is known, what the organizer leaves unpublished, and how a supporter casts a vote today.

Emporia Gazette Readers' Choice Awards

Annual Emporia Gazette Readers' Choice Awards for businesses across Lyon, Chase, Morris, Greenwood, Osage, and Coffey counties, with public voting at bestofemporia.com and results printed in the Gazette each summer.

Holiday Recipe Contest 2026

The Lawrence Journal-World, the daily newspaper of Lawrence, Kansas, runs the Holiday Recipe Contest 2026 as a public-vote recipe ballot on Second Street. Voting for the 2026 cycle runs from October 30 to November 20. Editions have appeared in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, making this a recurring autumn fixture on the paper's extra.ljworld.com promotions site.

Kansas City Engaged Couples’ Choice Awards

Nominations for the Kansas City Engaged Couples’ Choice Awards run in October, with finalist voting following through late October and winners announced in November. The program is run by Kansas City Engaged, a wedding-focused publication serving the Kansas City metro area in Kansas. Two edition years are confirmed: 2025 and 2026.

Lawrence Journal-World Holiday Recipe Contest

Lawrence · Lawrence Journal-World

Lawrence Journal-World, the Lawrence, Kansas newspaper, runs the Holiday Recipe Contest at extra.ljworld.com on the Second Street platform. Four separate editions are confirmed, 2023 through 2026, with the 2026 ballot open October 30 through November 20. Whether recipes get sorted into categories, or how often one supporter may vote, is nowhere in the current listing; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Manhattan Mercury Classroom Champions

Unlike the citywide business polls covering Overland Park, Topeka, or Wichita, the Manhattan Mercury's Classroom Champions ballot asks Kansas readers to recognize schools and educators rather than storefronts. Run on Second Street at themercury.secondstreetapp.com, the program's most recently confirmed nomination-and-voting window ran April 28 through December 2, 2025, its second confirmed edition after an initial 2024 run. Manhattan Mercury has not published a category list or a per-voter cap for Classroom Champions; both are matters to confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than assume from an earlier season.

Manhattan Mercury Readers' Choice

The Manhattan Mercury's annual Readers' Choice awards for Manhattan, Kansas, voted at themercury.com/readerschoice/. The confirmed record covers the organizer, the official URL, and the annual cadence; the category list, nomination dates, and any vote cap aren't published in what's confirmed here, so the live page is the source each cycle.

Photo Contest

Pet owners across Wichita and the rest of Kansas can enter a dog or cat photo in the Kansas Humane Society Photo Contest, a fundraiser that runs on GoGo Photo Contest. The entry and voting window runs from 9:00 AM Central Time on Monday, September 14, 2026 until 8:00 PM Central Time on Monday, October 5, 2026. This page collects the confirmed dates, the ballot address, the voting steps and the rules gaps a supporter should know before casting a vote.

Salina Area Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Salina Tech

Where do Salina supporters vote in the Salina Area Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Salina Tech? At poll.fm/16400068, a Crowdsignal ballot that has run in December 2023 and December 2025.

Salina Community's Choice Awards

Salina · Salina Journal

Salina Journal, part of Gannett, runs the Salina Community's Choice Awards on the Second Street ballot platform at salina.gannettcontests.com. Three rounds have run there so far: 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2026 voting ballot opened July 17 and closed August 1. Separate pages carry the nomination phase, the vote itself, and a winners list, the same three-page pattern repeating across all three confirmed years. Ballot categories and a per-voter limit: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Southeast Kansas Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Uplink Communication

Southeast Kansas Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Uplink Communication is a Kansas high school sports award recognizing defensive football standouts from schools across the southeast region of the state. The program runs on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) with public voting. Confirmed edition years are 2023 and 2025.

The Gardner News Early Boys Indoor TF Athlete of the Year

Nominations for The Gardner News Early Boys Indoor TF Athlete of the Year run in December, open to high school boys indoor track and field athletes across Kansas. The Gardner News, a Massachusetts-based newspaper, runs this public-vote award on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Confirmed edition years are 2023 and 2025.

The Gardner News Early Season Girls Basketball Player of the Year

The Gardner News Early Season presents an annual public-vote award honoring Kansas girls basketball standouts, with balloting hosted on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Nominations for this early-season honor run September through November; confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2025. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Sporting News Kansas High School Player of the Year

Each fall The Sporting News Kansas asks its readers who should be the Kansas high school player of the year. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot through poll.fm. The confirmed editions are 2023 and 2025, with the 2025 window inside October. The publisher prints no exact open and close dates, no category list and no per-supporter rule on the ballot page, so supporters planning a push should read the live ballot before committing to anything.

Topeka Community's Choice Awards

Two separate Topeka readers-choice programs share a "Community's Choice" name each year: the Topeka Capital-Journal's Gannett-run ballot, which sorts winners into five tiers from Platinum to Top Pick, and the unrelated CommunityVotes Topeka business ballot, run by a different organizer with its own site and its own schedule.

Vote for the Capital-Journal's player of the year for boys basketball

Kansas high school basketball supporters pick a Topeka area standout in the Capital-Journal's annual player of the year vote for the boys season. The ballot appears on the poll.fm form service that Crowdsignal operates, and its most recent edition carried a March 2025 window. That edition closed with the Washburn Rural nominee holding 78 percent of 8,456 votes cast.

Vote for The Gardner News Early Boys Indoor TF Athlete of the Year

The Gardner News runs a Crowdsignal poll that names an Early Season Boys Indoor TF Athlete of the Year. Confirmed editions sit in 2023 and 2025, and the live ballot stays open through December 31. Supporters pick a nominee from the published list and submit their choice online. The ballot is assigned to Kansas, with Gardner, Kansas as the publisher's home community.

Vote for The Gardner News Early Girls Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year

The Gardner News publishes an early-season honor for girls indoor track and field that readers settle by public vote, with the form living on Crowdsignal and the listing placed under Kansas. Two runs are on file, 2023 and 2025, and the window sits inside December. A reader opens the poll.fm form, reads the nominee options, picks a favorite and submits. Dates, category shape and any repeat-submission rule are not printed ahead of the live form.

VOTE NOW! Salina Area Boys Basketball Player of the Year Presented by Hutchinson Community College

Hutchinson Community College presents a public vote naming the top boys high school basketball player around Salina, Kansas. Crowdsignal runs the form at poll.fm, and confirmed editions ran in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024, each with voting inside March. The latest ballot closed on April 3. This reference gathers the confirmed facts, the voting steps, and the gaps the college leaves unpublished.

VOTE NOW! Salina Area Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Salina Tech

This Salina, Kansas ballot honors one defensive player of the year from area high school programs. Voting for the 2025 edition ran on Crowdsignal at poll.fm from December 16 through December 22, 2025, closing at 10:00 pm on the final Monday. Confirmed editions also include 2023, and the program is treated as annual. Nominees represented schools such as Salina South, Salina Central, Abilene, SE-Saline and Hillsboro.

VOTE NOW! Wichita Area Small School Defensive Player of the Year Presented by WSU Tech

A December fan vote honoring defense at small high schools around Wichita, Kansas. Wichita Area is the organizer named for it, with WSU Tech as the presenting sponsor. Voting happens through Crowdsignal on the poll.fm domain, and confirmed editions exist for 2023 and 2025. The most recent ballot printed a close date of 12/17 in its heading before the poll was marked closed. Opening days, nominee eligibility and any per-person voting rule stay unpublished, and the live form is where those answers appear.

VOTE NOW! Wichita Small School Boys Basketball Player of the Year Presented by Hutchinson Community College

Hutchinson Community College presents a public-vote award for small-school boys basketball in the Wichita, Kansas market, naming a player of the year. The ballot lives at poll.fm/13532350 on Crowdsignal, and confirmed editions have been logged in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent ballot carried a poll ends 4/3 label and is now marked closed. The organizer prints no per-supporter cap and no eligibility text on the ballot.

VOTE NOW! Wichita Small School Football Player of the Year Presented by Hutchinson Community College

Hutchinson Community College presents a fan vote that names a small school football player of the year for the Wichita market in Kansas. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, and confirmed editions exist for 2020, 2023 and 2024. The voting phase falls between December and February, and the latest ballot headline read Poll ends 12/12 before the poll closed.

VOTE: Who is The Gardner News Preseason Boys XC Athlete of the Year

This page explains the preseason boys cross country athlete of the year poll run under The Gardner News name and carried on Crowdsignal through its poll.fm host. Kansas supporters vote in the September window, with confirmed editions in 2023 and 2024. The ballot names high school runners, so the page describes the programme by publisher, sport and season rather than by nominee.

Vote: Who should be The Sporting News Kansas high school player of the year

The Sporting News Kansas runs a public poll to pick the state's top high school player, carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm platform. Ballots are confirmed for 2023 and 2025, and the latest edition ran in October before closing. Each ballot lists nominees with their schools, while rules text such as any per-person limit is not printed alongside the question.

Who is The Gardner News Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year

The Gardner News, a newspaper publisher, asks its readers to choose the paper's athlete of the year honor for boys track and field through a public poll on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/15690124. The live form lists nominees beside their schools, and one click registers a choice. The 2023 and 2025 editions are both on file, with voting falling in July. The form itself prints no per-person rule, no eligibility wording and no category roster, so anyone planning a push should read the live ballot first.

Who is The Gardner News Boys XC Athlete of the Year

The Gardner News Boys XC Athlete of the Year ballot is a year-end boys cross country honor, unlike the weekly Kansas athlete polls it sits beside. The organizer, The Gardner News Boys XC, casts the vote through Crowdsignal, with the ballot address poll.fm/16342600. The 2023 and 2025 cycles are both confirmed, and the voting window falls in December. Exact dates, the per-voter rule and any nomination round are absent from the published page.

Who is The Gardner news Girls Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year

The Gardner News, a Kansas newspaper, asks its readers to name the year's top performer in girls indoor track and field through a poll on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Verifiable runs cover 2023 and 2025, and the 2025 poll was live during March. The newspaper publishes no day-level dates, no voting-frequency rule and no eligibility terms for the honor.

Wichita Area Builders Parade of Homes

Wichita Area Builders Association's Parade of Homes is a builder-run home tour showcasing 100+ newly built homes per event across the Wichita area. WABA introduced a public People's Choice fan vote in Fall 2024, run through the votewichitaks.com and bestofwichitaks.com ecosystem alongside the association's own wabahome.com site.

Wichita Area Small School Defensive Player of the Year Presented by WSU Tech

Wichita Area runs the Wichita Area Small School Defensive Player of the Year Presented by WSU Tech, a Kansas high school football defensive honor decided by public vote on Crowdsignal. The ballot covers small schools in the Wichita area. Confirmed edition years are 2023 and 2025. Voting opens in December; exact dates confirm on the live ballot each cycle.