Louisiana Online Voting Contests

Baton Rouge High School Athlete of the Week

Baton Rouge · The Advocate / theadvocate.com

The Advocate's weekly fan vote for standout prep athletes across the Baton Rouge metro, covering all LHSAA-sanctioned sports year-round. Closes noon Thursday — a sharper window than most Louisiana weekly polls — with the winner featured on The Advocate High School Sports Facebook page.

Louisiana High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Louisiana · High School on SI (si.com/high-school/louisiana)

High School on SI (si.com/high-school/louisiana) runs a free weekly statewide fan vote each school-sports season, spotlighting top Louisiana prep performers across all LHSAA classes — 5A through 1A and select Divisions I–IV. Open ballot, no registration required.

Louisiana High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

Free annual fan-vote hosted by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/louisiana, honoring the top Louisiana prep boys basketball player by LHSAA classification. Separate Class 5A through 1A polls run after each winter season ends; no registration required. Run by SBLive Sports under the Sports Illustrated High School banner.

Louisiana High School Football Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide Louisiana fan vote — technically "Athlete of the Week" but 87–100% football nominees during the fall season. Voting closes 11:59 p.m. PT Sunday, with no cap on manual votes. Nominations go to [email protected] by 4 p.m. Sunday.

Louisiana High School Player of the Year

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

Annual end-of-season fan-vote series run by SBLive Sports / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/louisiana, crowning the top LHSAA prep athlete per sport across all five classification levels (1A–5A). Separate polls run for each sport; voting closes 11:59 p.m. PT on each poll's posted deadline.

New Orleans Area High School Athlete of the Week

New Orleans · NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune

The NOLA.com / Times-Picayune weekly fan vote for the best non-football prep sports performance across Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and the River Parishes. Nominations close Sunday at 5 p.m.; the poll closes Thursday at noon — five days shorter than the SI statewide ballot.

New Orleans Area Prep Football Player of the Week

New Orleans · NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune

The NOLA.com / Times-Picayune regional fan vote for the best prep football performance in the New Orleans metro — Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and the River Parishes. Editors nominate; anyone can vote; the ballot closes at noon on Thursday, not the weekend, which compresses the campaign window sharply.

Shreveport Times High School Athlete of the Week

Shreveport · Shreveport Times / USA Today Network

The Shreveport Times weekly fan vote for the top prep athlete across Northwest Louisiana — covering every LHSAA sport except football, closing Friday night, with the winner receiving a Raising Cane's prize package and a feature story.

WAFB Sportsline Player of the Week

Baton Rouge · WAFB 9 (CBS, Baton Rouge)

WAFB 9's weekly high school football fan vote for the Baton Rouge market, hosted on a dedicated Sportsline hub page rather than a dated article, with the winner featured in that week's sports segment on WAFB 9 (CBS).

WBRZ Fans' Choice Player of the Week

The WBRZ News 2 weekly fan vote for Baton Rouge-area high school football, nominees are revealed Tuesday, voting opens that evening, and fans can vote up to 50 times before the winner is announced live on the Wednesday 6 p.m. newscast.

2026 Best of the Teche

Best of the Teche is the readers-choice ballot The Daily Iberian runs for its New Iberia, Louisiana readership. The 2026 edition opened May 24, 2026 and closed July 26, 2026 on Second Street's platform. Confirmed editions reach back to 2018, with an unbroken run since 2021, and the paper has not yet published its 2027 plans.

Alexandria Community's Choice Awards

The Town Talk's (Gannett) readers-choice business awards for Cenla, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/alexandria/ across 150+ categories spanning Rapides, Grant, and Avoyelles parishes.

Bayou's Best Community's Choice Awards

Houma Today / Daily Comet readers-choice business awards for Louisiana's Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/houma/ across 150+ categories with gold, silver, and bronze winners published annually.

Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards

The Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards is a listener ballot run by KXKS-FM, the Louisiana country station behind mykisscountry937.com. Fans pick a favorite country album, and the 2018 ballot carried two Grammy nominees alongside albums that had not been eligible for the industry awards. Voting in the confirmed cycle wrapped on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Confirmed editions sit in 2018 and 2019, and the station has not printed dates for any later cycle.

Best Music Videos Of

Where Y'at Magazine runs the Best Music Videos Of ballot from New Orleans, Louisiana, on its own website. Confirmed editions appear for 2015 and then again for 2022 through 2025, and the cycle sits in December. Supporters vote for the year's best videos on the magazine's page. The precise start and finish days are not printed, so check the live ballot. This page collects what is published about the program, its voting window, its mechanic and its place among Louisiana ballots.

Best of 225

Baton Rouge · 225 Magazine

Best of 225 is a Louisiana readers'-choice program run by 225 Magazine for residents of the Baton Rouge 225 area code. The confirmed web address is titled "Best of 225 FAQ," but it functions as the program's own rules page rather than a help desk. Write-in nominations ran January 2 through January 31, 2026, ahead of a separate voting round that opens later in February. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Baton Rouge

The Advocate's Best of Baton Rouge is a public online readers-choice program spanning 200+ categories across 11 business sectors. The confirmed 2025 cycle drew 106,000 voters casting 236,000 votes for 3,500+ competing businesses over an 18-day window, producing 627 winners.

Best of New Orleans

Gambit's annual, entirely reader-driven poll for the New Orleans metro, published through NOLA Media Group at nola.com, spans 100+ categories plus a separate Northshore section. Gambit states plainly that its own staff doesn't pick winners and doesn't sell placement anywhere on the list.

Best of SWLA

Lake Charles American Press readers-choice awards spanning five Southwest Louisiana parishes, with public People's Choice voting at bestofswla.com.

Best Of The Delta

Best Of The Delta is a public-vote readers' ballot serving Monroe, Louisiana, running on Second Street at thenewsstar.secondstreetapp.com. Supporters pick favorite finalists before the printed closing date, which the 2017 ballot set at August 31st. Confirmed editions span 2016 through 2019 and 2022 through 2025, and the pattern points toward a further cycle in 2026.

Best of The River Parishes

L'Observateur runs Best of The River Parishes, a Second Street reader ballot covering Louisiana's River Parishes region, at lobservateur2.secondstreetapp.com. The 2026 window is confirmed open June 3 through September 21, the program's first confirmed edition. Past that window, a category list or a per-voter limit is whatever the live ballot itself says, confirmed fresh each cycle.

Best of the Teche

The Daily Iberian, headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana, runs Best of the Teche at thedailyiberian.secondstreetapp.com. Eight editions are confirmed on the platform archive, 2018 through 2026 with no 2019 edition on the list, and the 2026 combined nomination-and-voting window closed on July 26. Which categories businesses compete under, and how many votes a single supporter may cast, stays absent from that confirmed page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best Worst Hip Hop Moments Grammy Awards

KJMH, the Louisiana radio company behind 107 JAMZ, runs the Best Worst Hip Hop Moments Grammy Awards on its own website. Unlike the Alexandria Community's Choice Awards, this ballot looks back at hip-hop's biggest night rather than local businesses. Editions are confirmed for 2019 through 2026, and the cycle lands in December. Window dates, category rules and vote limits go unprinted, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Bogalusa Daily News Readers' Choice

Bogalusa Daily News runs Readers' Choice 2026, a Louisiana readers'-choice business ballot, at bogalusadailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. The platform's archive confirms just one prior run, in 2025, ahead of the 2026 combined nomination-and-voting window that closed on August 20. The organizer's page names no city for this ballot, only the state; which categories apply and how often a supporter may vote stay off that page too. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

BPT Readers Choice

Bossier City, Louisiana's Bossier Press-Tribune runs BPT Readers Choice at bossierpress.com, unlike the metro-daily ballots that cover Baton Rouge or New Orleans on their own separate sites. The 2025 edition called itself the newspaper's 26th Annual Reader's Choice program and arrived as a print insert in the newspaper's April 2, 2025 edition. The current cycle's voting window is placed in September 2026 on the same page. A published list of categories and a fixed vote limit are missing beyond that point, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming either one exists yet.

CommunityVotes Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge, Louisiana is home to CommunityVotes Baton Rouge, one of three separately run local best-of ballots in the city, reachable at batonrouge.communityvotes.com. This CommunityVotes round has run twice so far, in 2025 and again in 2026, and the current voting window stands open, Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, September 27. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Lafayette LA

A Lafayette-based CommunityVotes partner publishes CommunityVotes Lafayette LA at lafayettela.communityvotes.com, distinct from the city's separately run Acadiana's Choice ballot on YourChoiceAwards. This CommunityVotes edition has run twice, in 2024 and again in 2026, with the current voting window open, Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, September 27. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Lake Charles

Lake Charles · CommunityVotes Lake Charles

Lake Charles, Louisiana carries two separate readers'-choice ballots at once: CommunityVotes Lake Charles, organized through a local CommunityVotes partner at lakecharles.communityvotes.com, and the unrelated Best of SWLA program next door. Dated evidence for CommunityVotes' own Lake Charles market covers 2024 and 2026, and the 2026 stage sits in active voting, open Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, September 27. The confirmed page never lists which categories compete, nor how many times a supporter may return to vote. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Advertiser's Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Each season, Louisiana readers pick The Daily Advertiser's standout boys basketball player on a Crowdsignal ballot reached through poll.fm. The 2023 and 2025 cycles are the ones on the books, with the 2025 vote open during March. The newspaper's promotion tells supporters there are no voting restrictions, so backers may return often. Nominees are high school athletes, so this reference describes the field by season and school rather than by player.

For Our Final 250 James Avery Christmas Stories

KVKI-FM, a Shreveport, Louisiana radio station, runs this holiday vote on its own website. Listeners pick a favorite James Avery Christmas Story of the week, and the winning story earns a $250 James Avery gift. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, with a KVKI James Avery contest traceable back to 2017. The December window is the one fixed point of the calendar; the precise daily open and closing dates are left to the live ballot.

For The Best Christmas Tree In The Ark La Tex

KXKS-FM, the Louisiana country station behind Kiss Country 93.7, runs a December public vote titled For The Best Christmas Tree In The Ark La Tex on mykisscountry937.com. Edition years stretch from 2019 through 2026 with 2022 absent, and the 2017 wording set the deadline at midnight on December 14th. Only the live ballot settles the current cycle's exact dates.

Here For The Best Hs Marching Band In Nw Louisiana

KRUF, the Shreveport-area station behind the K945 brand, invites northwest Louisiana listeners to pick the region's strongest high school marching band on its own website each fall. It runs as an open fan ballot with no registration wall described, and the station urges supporters to rally other band fans alongside them. Confirmed editions stretch from 2018 through 2026, with the voting window falling in October and the precise open and close dates printed only on the live page.

Here For Your Favorite K945 Dj Poll

KRUF, the radio station behind the K945 brand, invites listeners to pick its most popular on-air personality in the Here For Your Favorite K945 Dj Poll. The vote form sits on k945.com and serves the Shreveport and Bossier listening area in Louisiana. Confirmed editions ran in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026, and the voting period falls in November. Anyone backing a particular DJ needs the broadcaster's ballot page for the current list of names, because the station keeps those details on the live vote form rather than in any standing announcement.

Houma-Thibodaux Area Postseason Baseball Player of the Year

Unlike a weekly honor, the Houma-Thibodaux Area Postseason Baseball Player of the Year settles a whole baseball season with one fan ballot. Supporters across the Houma and Thibodaux area of Louisiana pick among postseason nominees from area schools on Crowdsignal; the award ran in 2022 and again in 2025, with June voting in the latest cycle.

In Usa Todays Favorite Cruise Ship For Entertainment

KMDL, the Louisiana radio station behind 97.3 The Dawg, invites listeners to vote in USA Today's Favorite Cruise Ship for Entertainment on its own site. The ballot highlights the top 20 nominees and asks supporters to return once per day. Confirmed editions run from 2018 through 2026, and the most recent live window closed on a January morning. KMDL has not published when the next cycle opens or closes; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Readers' Choice 2026

Bogalusa Daily News, a Louisiana newspaper, runs the Readers' Choice program on Second Street, its contest host. The 2026 edition is a combined nomination-and-voting ballot that ran from 2026-05-27 through 2026-08-20 and is now closed. A prior edition ran in 2025 under the name Reader's Choice 2025. Category details and per-supporter rules for the ballot are not part of the published listing, so supporters should rely on the live ballot page during each cycle.

Shreveport Times Player of the Week

The Shreveport Times Player of the Week lets readers in Shreveport, Louisiana crown a standout high school athlete every week of the fall season. The Gannett daily runs each poll on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with ballots posted August through November across confirmed seasons in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The link currently serves a closed Week 1 ballot rather than a live vote.

The Best Boudin In Louisiana (gator995)

KNGT, the Lake Charles-area country station branded Gator 99.5, runs a public poll on its own web property asking listeners to name the best boudin in Louisiana. Ballots are confirmed from 2018 through 2026, missing only 2020, and the voting window sits in December. Unlike the chamber and magazine readers-choice contests elsewhere in the state, this one is a single food question under a radio station's masthead. Day-level dates and any vote rules are not printed, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Best King Cake In Southwest Louisiana Poll Rating (gator995)

KNGT, the Gator 99.5 radio station, invites Louisianians to vote for the best king cake in Southwest Louisiana on its own gator995.com site each Mardi Gras season. Voting falls in February, and the station has carried the poll across editions in 2019 and from 2022 through 2026. The ballot page publishes no rules text, so the exact open and close days and any voting limits are things a supporter reads on the live ballot itself.

The Cenla Preps Boys Athlete of the Week

CenLAPreps runs a boys-only prep athlete award vote for the Cenla region of Louisiana. The vote runs through Crowdsignal at a poll.fm address, and the confirmed 2025 round carried a Nov. 17-23 window before closing. Confirmed editions also ran in 2022 and 2024. The ballot prints no category list, no nomination dates and no per-supporter rule, so check the live ballot before each round.

The Cenla Preps Girls Athlete of the Week

CenLAPreps runs The Cenla Preps Girls Athlete of the Week as a public vote carried by Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. The most recent round opened Nov. 17 and closed Nov. 23, and that poll now shows closed. Confirmed editions cover 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ballot itself prints no per-supporter limit and no date for the next girls athlete round, so supporters should read the live poll before planning a push.

The Go Natchitoches Awards

The Go Natchitoches Awards is an annual business recognition program for Natchitoches, Louisiana, run by Go Natchitoches on the organization's own website. Its confirmed years are 2024, 2025 and 2026. Nominations for the 2026-27 cycle open on November 1, 2026 and run through November. Businesses are nominated first, finalists are selected, and the public then votes on the outcome ahead of an awards ceremony.

The Monroe News-Star Girls Athlete of the Year

The Monroe News-Star Girls Athlete of the Year is a reader-chosen award from the Monroe News-Star, published by The News Star, honoring girls high school athletes in the Monroe, Louisiana market. Voting runs each June on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with editions in 2025 and 2026 and a 2027 cycle expected next. The 2025-26 ballot is closed, and the News-Star prints no category roster, no per-supporter limit and no June opening or closing day.

Vote for the Cenla Preps Athlete of the Week

This page is about a central Louisiana high school athlete ballot rather than a metro newsroom contest. CenLAPreps runs the Athlete of the Week vote, hosted by Crowdsignal on its poll.fm service. The confirmed voting window ran Nov. 10-16 before the poll closed. Confirmed editions sit in 2022, 2024 and 2025. The page explains who runs it, how a supporter casts a vote, what the organizer has left unstated, and how this ballot compares with its Louisiana neighbours.

Who is the Monroe News-Star's athlete of the week

The News-Star, the daily paper behind the Monroe News-Star name in Monroe, Louisiana, invites readers to pick its athlete of the week through a poll on Crowdsignal. Confirmed seasons run in 2023 and 2026, with ballots live from January through May. One 2026 ballot closed on Friday, Sept. 18, and a recent week's leading nominee took 52 percent on 8,225 votes. Repeat voting is allowed all week.

Who is the Monroe News-Star's baseball player of the year

The Monroe News-Star, the high school sports desk of The News-Star in Monroe, Louisiana, puts its baseball player of the year question to readers as a Crowdsignal poll served through poll.fm. Editions are confirmed for 2025 and 2026, with the 2025-26 season vote dated to May and now marked closed.

Who is the Monroe News-Star's boys Athlete of the Year

The News-Star, the daily newspaper in Monroe, Louisiana, hands out a boys Athlete of the Year honor decided by its readers. Crowdsignal's poll.fm carries the ballot, and the 2025-26 edition closed in June 2026 after a public count. A 2025 edition is confirmed as well, and the publisher has posted no schedule for a 2027 cycle.

2026 Dress Your Pet Photo Contest

The 2026 Dress Your Pet Photo Contest is a public photo-vote for pets run by The Daily Iberian, the newspaper serving New Iberia, Louisiana. The ballot sits on the paper's Second Street hub. Its confirmed 2026 round opened January 21 and closed March 7. An earlier edition ran in 2022. Category details and voting rules come from the live ballot page only.

Daily Iberian Dress Your Pet Photo Contest

The Daily Iberian runs the Dress Your Pet Photo Contest, a Louisiana pet-photo ballot that lives on the Second Street network's thedailyiberian.secondstreetapp.com address. Two confirmed editions exist, 2022 and 2026, with nothing published for the years between them; the 2026 window ran January 21 through March 7 and is already closed. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Now For Kvkis Cutest Canine Companion Pics

KVKI-FM invites its Shreveport/Bossier area listeners to pick the station's Cutest Canine Companion in a public photo vote. The ballot is served from the station's own site at 965kvki.com, and the cycle the station described ran voting through 10 a.m. Thursday, August 3rd with unlimited repeat votes. Confirmed runs cover 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Deadlines, eligibility terms and any volume rules are absent from the page quoted here.