Michigan Online Voting Contests

Ann Arbor-Area High School Football Player of the Week

Ann Arbor · MLive / The Ann Arbor News

The MLive / Ann Arbor News regional fan vote for the best Washtenaw County-area prep football performance of the week. Embedded via poll.fm inside a dated mlive.com article — 10 nominees chosen by editors, approximately 1 vote per device per hour, closes Thursday morning, and puts three Division 1 city schools on the same ballot as Chelsea, Dexter, and Milan.

Cast your vote for the Journal's Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Michigan readers decide the Journal's annual award for boys basketball on a Crowdsignal ballot hosted at poll.fm. Confirmed seasons are 2023 and 2026; the 2026 window fell in March. The closing tally reached 4,555 votes across nominees tied to Colon, Mendon and White Pigeon. Precise opening and closing dates for the next season are not printed, so the live ballot is where they will appear.

Detroit Free Press Athlete of the Week

Detroit · Detroit Free Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at freep.com, run by the Detroit Free Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) on the SecondStreet platform, recognising the top Detroit-area high school athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed.

Flint-Area High School Football Player of the Week

Flint · MLive / The Flint Journal

The MLive / Flint Journal weekly fan-vote poll for the top Genesee County prep football performance. Staff nominates 11–14 candidates, readers vote via an embedded poll.fm widget at mlive.com, and the ballot closes Thursday morning — two to three days earlier than the statewide SI poll serving the same state.

High School on SI Michigan Athlete of the Week

The High School on SI / SBLive statewide multi-sport fan vote for Michigan — runs year-round through basketball, hockey, soccer, and wrestling seasons at si.com/high-school/michigan. No account required, unlimited votes confirmed by the organizer, closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. PT. Separate from the fall football POTW; this is where Averie Zinn (Genesee) lands 54 points and 11 steals and still comes back as a repeat nominee the following week.

Jackson-Area High School Football Player of the Week

Jackson · MLive / Jackson Citizen Patriot

The MLive / Jackson Citizen Patriot regional fan vote for the best Jackson-area prep football performance of the week. Embedded on mlive.com via poll.fm — 1 vote per device per hour, closes Thursday morning, and covers a tight geographic field that includes Lumen Christi, Parma Western, Napoleon, and ten other county-area programs.

Lansing State Journal Athlete of the Week

Lansing · Lansing State Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at lansingstatejournal.com run by the Lansing State Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring a top Greater Lansing and Mid-Michigan high school athlete each week of the MHSAA sports calendar. One vote per hour per device, no account required.

Lenawee County Girls Athlete of the Year

Across Lenawee County in Michigan, high school fans vote each summer cycle for a Girls Athlete of the Year, with the poll hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Cycles ran in 2023 and 2024, with the 2024 window sitting in July before the poll closed. Nominees come from schools in Addison, Adrian, Blissfield, Clinton, Onsted and area communities. Dates, categories and any supporter cap remain unstated on the ballot itself.

Michigan Football Preseason Top QB

Statewide Michigan · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

SI / SBLive Michigan's summer preseason vote names a Top QB pick before MHSAA fall practice starts, one ballot in a series the organizer runs position by position rather than as a single combined preseason team. The 2025 cycle is confirmed; exact dates and any vote cap aren't published yet.

Michigan High School Football Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide Michigan fan-vote poll, open each fall week at si.com/high-school/michigan with no account required, no vote cap (confirmed by the organizer), and a Sunday 11:59 p.m. close — the only Michigan football poll that spans every MHSAA division from Belleville D1 to Upper Peninsula D8 on one ballot.

Michigan High School Player of the Year

Statewide Michigan · High School on SI / Sports Illustrated

Annual division-by-division fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/michigan, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Authentic Brands Group), recognising the top Michigan prep football player in each of the eight MHSAA classifications — D1 through D8 — each December following the state playoffs.

Michigan High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network / Turnin2 Softball

Annual statewide fan-vote and panel award at statechampsnetwork.com, powered by Turnin2 Softball, recognising the top girls softball player across all MHSAA divisions in Michigan each spring season — with online voting counting 20% of the selection criteria and a live championship-week announcement.

Michigan High School Volleyball Player of the Year

Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network / Michigan Elite Volleyball

Annual statewide fan-vote and editorial panel award at statechampsnetwork.com, run by State Champs! Sports Network in partnership with Michigan Elite Volleyball, honouring the top girls volleyball player across all MHSAA divisions each fall — with online voting counting 20% of the weighted selection criteria and a live announcement timed to MHSAA Volleyball Finals week at Kellogg Arena, Battle Creek.

Michigan Hockey Player of the Year

Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network

Annual statewide Michigan honor by State Champs! Sports Network recognizing the top high school hockey player in Michigan; a public online fan vote at statechampsnetwork.com is part of the selection formula, following the same 20%-weighted model State Champs! uses across its other Michigan Player of the Year awards.

Michigan Mr. Football

Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network

Annual statewide Michigan award by State Champs! Sports Network (sponsored by Hungry Howie's) recognising the top high school football player in Michigan; a public fan vote at statechampsnetwork.com counts for 20% of the final selection score and the vote winner automatically enters the Final Four each November.

Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Fan Vote

The public online vote run by the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) for its annual induction class, spanning five categories — Amateur, Professional, Coach, Media, and Contributor — with voting open through mid-June. The induction ceremony follows every December at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit. Statewide, all sports, all eras — a career and legacy ballot, not a single-week or single-season poll.

MLive Bay City-Area High School Football Player of the Week

Bay City · MLive / Bay City Times (Advance Local)

Weekly fan-vote poll on mlive.com for the Bay City and mid-Michigan thumb region, run by MLive / Bay City Times (Advance Local) via poll.fm. Eleven nominees per week; cap rules unconfirmed — check the active ballot. The confirmed 2024 winner, John Glenn's Lukas Gies, took 42% in an 11-player field, while Grand Rapids' sibling poll caps votes at one per hour per device.

MLive Grand Rapids Athlete of the Week

Grand Rapids · MLive / The Grand Rapids Press (Advance Local)

Free weekly high school sports fan poll at mlive.com covering West Michigan's Grand Rapids metro — run by MLive Media Group (Advance Local). Sport-specific polls each season; one vote per device per hour, no account required.

MLive Kalamazoo-Area High School Football Player of the Week

Kalamazoo · MLive / Kalamazoo Gazette (Advance Local)

MLive's weekly fan-vote poll on mlive.com recognizing standout southwest Michigan prep football performers. Editors nominate the field — as many as 44 in a single week — and fans vote via an embedded poll.fm ballot with no account required; the poll closes Thursday morning or Friday afternoon depending on the week.

MLive Muskegon High School Football Player of the Week

Muskegon · MLive / Muskegon Chronicle (Advance Local)

Weekly free fan-vote poll on mlive.com recognizing outstanding high school football players across the Muskegon area, run by MLive Media Group (Advance Local) with polls embedded via poll.fm. Voting closes Thursday 9 a.m. — the only Michigan regional football poll with a confirmed close time.

SBLive Michigan Athlete of the Week

Statewide Michigan · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Weekly fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming one standout Michigan prep athlete each week of the MHSAA calendar. Nominations go to [email protected]; the ballot closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. and the winner posts Monday. No account is required, and the organizer does not publish a per-day vote ceiling.

SBLive Michigan Football Player of the Year — Division 1

Statewide Michigan (Division 1 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Annual Division 1-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's largest-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 1 state final. Voting is free, no purchase is necessary, and the window closes December 14 each year.

SBLive Michigan Football Player of the Year — Division 2

Statewide Michigan (Division 2 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Annual Division 2-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's second-largest-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 2 state final. Voting is free; the window closes each December, with the exact date confirmed on the live article every cycle.

SBLive Michigan Football Player of the Year — Division 3

Statewide Michigan (Division 3 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Annual Division 3-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's mid-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 3 state final. Voting is free; the confirmed cycle runs in December, with the exact close date verified on that year's live article.

SBLive Michigan Football Player of the Year — Division 4

Statewide Michigan (Division 4 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Annual Division 4-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's smaller-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 4 state final. Voting is free, and the most recently confirmed window closed December 15, a fixed date not every sibling division shares.

SBLive Michigan Football Player of the Year — Division 7

Statewide Michigan (Division 7 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Annual Division 7-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's second-smallest 11-player MHSAA football classification after the Division 7 state final. Voting is free; SI has not published a fixed December close date specific to this division in the confirmed record.

SBLive Michigan Football Player of the Year — Division 8

Statewide Michigan (Division 8 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)

Annual Division 8-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the smallest enrollment band in the state's eleven-man MHSAA football ladder, one step above 8-player football. Voting is free; SI has not published a fixed December close date specific to this division in the confirmed record.

The Ann Arbor News Ann Arbor-Area Athlete of the Week

Ann Arbor, Michigan's weekly Athlete of the Week ballot lets readers pick a high school sports standout, published by MLive/The Ann Arbor News and hosted at Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Confirmed seasons run from 2021 through 2026, with voting spread across the school year from September into June. Each new poll replaces the last at the same voting address, so the live ballot always shows the current round.

The Journal Athlete of the Week Presented by Glen Oaks CC

Through the Michigan school year, the Journal opens a weekly public poll naming area high school athletes of the week on the poll.fm ballot service, with Glen Oaks Community College attached as the named sponsor. Supporters pick from nominees whose schools have included Sturgis, Constantine, Centreville and Bronson, and the organizer's instruction allows repeat voting until each ballot's posted deadline. Confirmed editions run across 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Vote for the Cheboygan Daily Tribune's Athlete of the Week

Readers in Cheboygan, Michigan, pick the week's top high school athlete in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune's weekly Crowdsignal poll. Confirmed seasons run from 2022 through 2026, built from 39 weekly ballots, and the round at this page's voting link covers May 26-30 and is closed. Fresh slates post each week the paper's sports calendar is active.

WZZM13 Grand Rapids High School MVP of the Week

Grand Rapids · WZZM13 / 13 On Your Sidelines

The WZZM13 "13 On Your Sidelines" weekly fan vote covering high school football in fall and boys basketball in winter across the Greater Grand Rapids metro. Voting opens Monday and closes Thursday at 5:30 p.m. — mid-week, mid-afternoon — a hard stop that most voters never see coming.

2026 Detroit Community's Choice Awards

The Detroit Free Press runs the 2026 Detroit Community's Choice Awards, a best-of business ballot for Detroit, Michigan, hosted on Second Street at freep.gannettcontests.com. The 2026 nomination-and-voting window ran from March 26 to May 1, 2026 and is now closed. Confirmed editions span 2023 through 2026, and the organizer's published rule allows a vote once a day per category while the round is active.

About Mission Vision Leadership Awards

The Mission Leadership Awards are run by University of Detroit Mercy, a university in Detroit, Michigan. The ballot carries the Vivere ex Missione Award and the Agere ex Missione Award and honors students, faculty and staff who embody the university's mission. Confirmed cycles ran in 2025 and 2026. Nominations for 2026 closed March 13, with forms released in January. Everything else is published on the organizer's own site.

Adrian Community's Choice Awards

Two confirmed editions of the Adrian Community's Choice Awards have run, in 2025 and 2026, carried on the Your Choice Awards system. The Gannett / USA TODAY Network paper serving Adrian honors leading businesses and organizations in Adrian, Michigan. The 2026 cycle moves from a July nomination round into a voting round that runs September 16-30, and winners follow in December.

ArtPrize

ArtPrize is an international art competition and cultural festival held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, run by the ArtPrize organization on its own website. The public vote decides the Grand Prize Award. For the 2026 cycle, voting runs from Friday, September 18 at 12:00 PM EST until Friday, October 2 at 10:00 PM EST. Supporters may vote once per day, per entry, for as many entries as they like. Whether you follow the festival itself or the surrounding Michigan readers choice circuit, the dates above are the ones printed by the organizer.

Battle Creek Enquirer Preseason Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Where do Battle Creek supporters vote in the Preseason Girls Basketball Player of the Year? At Crowdsignal, on the ballot the Battle Creek Enquirer publishes at poll.fm. The vote has run in a December window, with editions confirmed in 2024 and 2025. What stays off the published page is the exact open and close date inside that month and any rule about repeat voting. A supporter opens the ballot, reads the nominee list for the Battle Creek area, picks a player and presses the vote control. This guide sets out who runs the programme, what the confirmed evidence shows, how the ballot works today and how it sits beside the other Michigan high school polls on this site.

Best Bassist Loudwire Music Awards

WGRD-FM, a Grand Rapids rock radio station, runs the Best Bassist ballot tied to the Loudwire Music Awards. The 2017 voting period closed Oct. 2 at 11:59PM ET, and supporters could vote up to once per hour. Confirmed editions run across 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ballot lives on wgrd.com, where six musicians competed for the title, presented by Hotel Indigo. Window dates for the current cycle are not printed in advance, so check the live ballot.

Best Burgers Kalamazoo (wkfr)

WKFR-FM, the hit-music station broadcasting to Kalamazoo, Michigan, asks its listeners to name Southwest Michigan's favorite burger joints in its Best Burgers vote. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, each appearing on the station's own wkfr.com domain. The 2022 ballot closed with the station publishing the winning spots chosen by reader votes. No date has been printed for the next round.

Best Burgers Southwest Michigan (wkfr)

WKFR-FM in Kalamazoo asks its listeners to pick the best burger in southwest Michigan on a ballot the station publishes on wkfr.com itself. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The 2021 round split September into a nomination week and a two-week voting window, then posted results on a Friday morning. A restaurant nominated here reaches a radio audience across several southwest Michigan counties at once.

Best Dressed Form

Best Dressed Form is the nomination ballot Hour Detroit Magazine runs for its annual Best Dressed list in Detroit, Michigan. Confirmed editions sit in 2023, 2025 and 2026, and nominations run from September through November each cycle. The form sits on the magazine's own domain at hourdetroit.com, where readers submit names through the form itself. Exact open and close dates and any nomination limits are not printed on the page.

Best of Branch County Community's Choice Awards

Coldwater and Branch County businesses compete for community votes in the Best of Branch County Community's Choice Awards. This best-of program is run by Gannett's USA TODAY Network newspaper that serves Branch County, on its Your Choice Awards ballot site. The 2026 cycle moved through nominations in May, a voting round from July 9 to July 23, and a winners announcement on September 12, 2026. Over 240 businesses and organizations across Branch County, Michigan take part each year.

Best of Hillsdale County Community's Choice Awards

Hillsdale County, Michigan's business and organization awards ballot is the Best of Hillsdale County Community's Choice Awards, run by a Gannett / USA TODAY Network paper serving the market and hosted through Your Choice Awards. The 2026 cycle moved from a May nomination round into a voting round that ran July 9-23, 2026, with winners announced September 12, 2026. Supporters may cast one vote per category each day while that round runs.

Best of Michiana Sturgis Community's Choice Awards

Two confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026, back Best of Michiana Sturgis Community's Choice Awards, a Gannett USA TODAY Network ballot at yourchoiceawards.com/sturgis for Sturgis, Michigan. The 2026 round already ran its full course this year, nominations opened May 1, voting closed July 23, and winners were named September 12. The organizer's own page calls the program annual, and its voting rule lets a supporter return once a day in every category while a round is open.

Best of Michigan Awards 2026

Guide to Michigan runs the Best of Michigan Awards 2026, a community-voted celebration of top local businesses, on its own site at guidetomichigan.com/best-of. Any supporter can nominate a business and then vote. The live ballot closes June 30, 2027 at 11:59 PM, results post online July 30, 2027, and a print annual follows in September.

Best of Monroe County Community's Choice Awards

YourChoiceAwards' readers-choice business awards for Monroe County, Michigan, at yourchoiceawards.com/monroecounty/. The confirmed 2026 cycle ran a Nomination Round May 1-22 and a Voting Round July 7-21, already closed as of this record. It runs on the same YourChoiceAwards platform as Detroit and Lansing's own Michigan editions.

Best of Northern Michigan

YourChoiceAwards Northern MI's annual readers-choice program at yourchoiceawards.com/northmi, spanning more than 120 categories and recognizing 360-plus businesses across Petoskey, Traverse City, and the wider Northern Lower Peninsula, with the live site as the only confirmed source for each cycle's exact dates and category list.

Best Pizza

WKFR-FM, a Kalamazoo radio station, invites listeners across Southwest Michigan to name the region's best pizza place in a public vote run on wkfr.com, the station's own site. The 2019 ballot carried the title Vote For The Best Pizza Place In Southwest Michigan and closed on October 27th that year. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019 and 2026, and the station treats the ballot as a recurring October feature. Rules such as any per-supporter limit are absent from the ballot page.

Best Restaurants in Kalamazoo

KZOOKIDS runs the Best Restaurants in Kalamazoo ballot on its own website, separate from the statewide and Detroit readers' choice programs. Voting for the 2026 cycle runs from February 16, 2026 to March 16, 2026. The ballot lists fourteen food categories, allows only one voting form per person, and ties a $100 restaurant prize giveaway to the vote, with four winners drawn in 2026.

Best Tattoo Shop (wkfr)

WKFR-FM, the Kalamazoo hit-music station, invites listeners to pick the best tattoo shop in Southwest Michigan on its own website. The 2019 ballot asked readers to choose a favorite from South Haven to Battle Creek and ran from December 11 through December 22 that year. Editions have also run in 2018, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The station prints no category slate, no per-supporter limit and no current window dates on the ballot page, so a shop that wants certainty about any of those details has to read the live form when the next round opens.

Best Worst Hip Hop Moments Grammy Awards

WRCL, the Michigan radio station behind Club 93.7, runs the Best Worst Hip Hop Moments Grammy Awards as a fan ballot on its own website. The feature looks back at a Grammy Awards ceremony through a hip-hop lens, and confirmed editions sit in 2019, 2021 and 2022, with the December window the station has used for it. This page collects what is published about the vote, what the station leaves unstated between cycles, and how a supporter takes part.

Canton People's Choice Awards

The Canton People's Choice Awards are a best-of business ballot run by the Canton Chamber of Commerce in Canton, Michigan. Voting happens on the chamber's own website rather than a rented contest platform. The most recent window closed on October 23rd, and the chamber has scheduled its awards ceremony for November 13th, 2026 at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill. Confirmed editions so far cover 2025 and 2026.

Cast your vote for Hometown Life's Football Player of the Week

Hometown Life, a Michigan publication, lets readers pick its football player of the week through a public Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Seasons are confirmed for 2022 through 2026, with rounds appearing between May and November. The linked ballot has closed. Weekly dates, category details and any cap on repeat voting are left unpublished by the organizer.

Cast your vote for the Journal's preseason boys basketball player of the year

The Journal, a Michigan publisher, asks readers to name a preseason boys basketball player of the year on the poll.fm ballot Crowdsignal hosts. The 2023 and 2024 runs are confirmed, each live in December. The 2024 poll sits closed, and the publisher has printed no dates for the next round; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Nominees come from Sturgis, White Pigeon, Bronson, Centreville, Marcellus and nearby towns.

Cast your votes for the Journal's Softball Player of the Year

The Journal, a Michigan publisher, decides its Softball Player of the Year by fan ballot on Crowdsignal's poll.fm pages, with Bronson, Mendon and Marcellus among the schools represented. Editions exist for 2023, 2025 and 2026, and voting lands in June and July. The latest ballot carries a poll closed notice, with no dates or rules printed for the next round.

CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in Competitive Cheer

CatchMark Sports runs the WMC Player of the Year in Competitive Cheer, a public vote for West Michigan Conference cheer athletes balloted through Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The 2023 and 2024 editions are confirmed, and the current voting window opened at 7 a.m. Monday, May 20 and closes at 7 a.m. Friday, May 31. The 2023-24 ballot closed with the leading nominee on 85 percent of 5,057 votes.

Charlevoix Courier Gaylord Herald Times Athlete of the Week

The Charlevoix Courier publishes a weekly fan ballot for Gaylord Herald Times readers, the Athlete of the Week, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ballots live from September through May, each opening Monday morning and closing Friday morning. The series has confirmed editions spanning 2022 to 2026, and nominees come from Gaylord, St. Mary and Johannesburg-Lewiston.

Charlevoix Courier Gaylord Herald Times Female Athlete of the Year

The Charlevoix Courier runs the Gaylord Herald Times Female Athlete of the Year as a fan ballot on Crowdsignal's poll.fm site. The award honors a high school girls athlete from the Gaylord, Michigan readership area. Editions sit in 2024 and 2026, with the voting window falling across December and January. The newspaper does not print exact open and close dates ahead of each cycle, so the live ballot is the guide.

Charlevoix Courier Petoskey News-Review Athlete of the Week

The Charlevoix Courier runs a weekly high school athlete of the week vote for northern Michigan, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ballots in the series have run in 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with voting falling between September and December. This page explains who publishes the poll, how a supporter casts a vote, what the organizer has not printed, and how the ballot sits beside other Michigan athlete of the week programs.

CommunityVotes Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan, hosts its readers' choice business ballot at annarbor.communityvotes.com. Nominations for 2026 run May 16 through September 13. Beyond that window, no category list and no listed vote cap appear; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Dearborn

CommunityVotes Dearborn 2026 is Dearborn, Michigan's community voting awards ballot; CommunityVotes runs it alongside a local partner. Residents put forward the local businesses, people and services they most want honored. Nominations run May 16 through September 13 on dearborn.communityvotes.com. Just one edition, the 2026 cycle, has been confirmed to date, so the page treats recurrence as open and points readers to the live ballot for whatever the organizer has not printed, including which categories appear and whether any cap exists.

CommunityVotes Grand Rapids

CommunityVotes Grand Rapids is a nominate-then-vote business ballot running at grandrapids.communityvotes.com for Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2026 marks its fifth straight confirmed year since 2022, with the window open May 16 through September 13. Neither categories nor a vote cap show up anywhere on the site; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Lansing

CommunityVotes Lansing runs a community-nominated business ballot out of Michigan's state capital, at lansing.communityvotes.com. Nominations for 2026 are open May 16 through September 13, a third straight confirmed year following 2024 and 2025. A category breakdown and a vote-stage cap stay unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Livonia

CommunityVotes Livonia is a locally run business recognition ballot for Livonia, Michigan, at livonia.communityvotes.com, confirmed for three editions, 2022, 2024, and 2026, with nothing published for 2023 or 2025. The 2026 window is open May 16 through September 13; confirm categories and vote caps on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Saginaw

CommunityVotes has run its Saginaw, Michigan ballot for five straight years, 2022 through 2026, longer than most CommunityVotes markets in the state. It's hosted at saginaw.communityvotes.com for the Saginaw County seat. The 2026 nomination window runs May 16 through September 13. Past that window, the page names no category list and no separate vote cap; check the live ballot each cycle for either detail.

Contests Rss

FOX 17 WXMI runs a public-vote contests feed on its own website for Michigan. The confirmed live window runs January 1 through January 31, 2026, in a nominations phase that includes the Pay It Forward 2026 Person of the Month. Editions are confirmed for 2025 and 2026. The category roster and any vote limits are not published, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Telegram Preseason Football Player of the Year

Michigan's Daily Telegram settles this preseason football award before the season starts, letting readers choose the winner by fan vote on Crowdsignal's poll.fm. The latest window opened Aug. 24 and closed at midnight Thursday, Aug. 27. Nominees represented schools in Adrian, Hudson, Clinton, Blissfield, Addison and Tecumseh. Both 2023 and 2024 ran, and no date has been announced for the next edition.

Detroit Community Choice Awards

Detroit gets its Community's Choice Awards from the Detroit Free Press, whose Second Street ballot system sits at freep.gannettcontests.com. Four editions have now closed out, 2023 into 2026, with the most recent window opening March 26 and ending May 1. Neither a list of categories nor a per-supporter voting limit has surfaced anywhere public; each stays a question for whatever the live ballot happens to show next.

Detroit Music Awards

A Michigan 501(c)(3) honoring Detroit-area musicians across national, regional, and local tiers, run through detroitmusicawards.net with voter registration required before ballots become visible.

Detroit News Readers' Choice

Detroit News's annual Readers' Choice is a business readers-choice ballot run through the third-party SecondStreet platform, confirmed active for the 2025 cycle and structurally separate from Metro Times', Hour Detroit's, and Detroit Free Press's own Detroit-area reader-vote programs, each counting its own votes independently.

DN Readers Choice Awards

The Daily News's annual readers-choice ballot for Iron Mountain and the Upper Peninsula, run online at thedailynews.cc. The confirmed 2025 edition used a year-stamped URL, rca2025, rather than a permanent voting address, meaning the current cycle's page name should be searched for fresh rather than reused from an old bookmark.

Favorite Food Truck in Southwest Michigan

WKFR-FM asks Southwest Michigan listeners to nominate and then vote for their favorite food trucks each spring. The 2026 nomination window closed at 6 AM on Friday, May 29, and voting runs through 5 AM on Friday, June 12. Everything runs on wkfr.com, the station's own domain, and each person may cast a single daily ballot. One nomination per truck is enough. Confirmed editions cover 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

For Kalamazoo For The Nicest Place In America

Kalamazoo, Michigan's For Kalamazoo For The Nicest Place In America is a public-vote campaign run by WRKR, the Kalamazoo classic rock station known on air as 107.7 RKR the Rocker, and carried on wrkr.com itself. The 2026 cycle's ballot page tells supporters voting closes July 7th. The campaign has confirmed editions across 2018 through 2026. This reference page covers the organizer, the ballot, the window and what WRKR has not published.

For Paradise Animal Rescue

For Paradise Animal Rescue is a public-vote ballot organized by the Michigan radio station WQUS, with voting carried on the station's 1031theticket.com domain. Confirmed voting runs September 3 through September 7, and a supporter may vote once every 24 hours. The ballot carries editions in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The beneficiary is Paradise Animal Rescue, a licensed animal rescue nonprofit in the running for part of an Independent Bank giveaway that gives $5,000 each to four nonprofits in the communities the bank serves.

For The Best City Battle Of The Burbs Fabulous Four

WGRD-FM runs the Battle Of The Burbs vote on its own site, asking listeners to pick the best or favorite city in its listening area. The ballot page shows the contest down to the Fabulous Four, with Round 1 (Sweet 16) voting dated March 28 - 29 and Round 2 (Elite 8) voting in March. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and then 2022 through 2025; the next round's dates are not printed ahead of time.

For The Best City Battle Of The Burbs Sweet 16

WGRD 97.9, a Grand Rapids radio station, runs the Battle Of The Burbs Sweet 16 ballot on its own site at wgrd.com. It is a public vote where listeners pick the best or favorite city in the station's listening area, framed as the throwdown of the suburbs. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026, and the Round 1 Sweet 16 voting window the station printed was March 28 - 29. This page collects what is known about the ballot, the mechanic, and the Michigan best-of programs around it.

For The Best High School Mascot In Southwest Michigan Poll

WKFR-FM, a Kalamazoo, Michigan radio station, invites listeners to decide which high school mascot deserves the Southwest Michigan crown. The vote runs at wkfr.com, the station's own domain, and asks a simple question about local school pride. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with the 2018 cycle pairing a September nomination round against a week of open voting.

For The Best Pizza Place In West Michigan (wkfr)

WKFR-FM, the 103.3 hit-music station in Kalamazoo, Michigan, runs For The Best Pizza Place In West Michigan, a public-vote food ballot published at wkfr.com, the domain the station controls. Confirmed editions ran in 2018 and 2026. The 2018 round drew nearly 6,000 votes and allowed one vote per person per day, closing at 11:59 PM on Sunday, August 19th. Dates for the current cycle are not printed in advance, so supporters should read the current ballot page before building any push around it.

For The Food Truck You Think Should Be Named West Michigans Favorite

WGRD-FM, a Grand Rapids radio station, runs a public food truck vote on its own site at wgrd.com. The station collected over 400 nominations for West Michigan's Favorite Food Truck and narrowed the field to a top ten for the public round. Voting in the documented window ran from noon on Monday, August 7, 2017 until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 20, 2017, and the ballot has editions in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Day-level dates for the current cycle, plus any vote cap or eligibility rule, are not printed.

For The Nachos You Think Should Be Named West Michigans Favorite

WGRD-FM, a Grand Rapids rock station, runs a public vote that asks listeners to name West Michigan's favorite nachos. After collecting nominations, the station narrowed the field to ten finalists and lets readers decide the winner on wgrd.com, its own web address. Edition years on file are 2018 and 2022 through 2026, and an earlier published window ran from noon on a Monday to 11:59 p.m. the following Sunday in late October.

For West Michigans Favorite Bartender

Unlike the Detroit-area reader polls run by newspapers and magazines in this collection, For West Michigans Favorite Bartender is a single-category poll run by WGRD-FM, the 97.9 FM radio station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and hosted on the station's own website. Nearly 6,500 nominations from establishments across West Michigan were narrowed to the top ten nominees, and voting for the current cycle closes on Wednesday, December 14 at 12 p.m. (noon).

For West Michigans Favorite Bloody Mary

WTRV, the Grand Rapids station behind 100.5 The River, lets its audience crown a favorite bloody mary through this food and drink poll, published on rivergrandrapids.com. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the 2017 voting window was printed in full, from noon on November 1 until 11:59 p.m. on November 8. Nominations come first, then supporters pick among the announced finalists.

For West Michigans Favorite Independent Christmas Gift Shop

WTRV, the West Michigan radio station behind rivergrandrapids.com, asks listeners to crown the region's favorite independent Christmas gift shop in a public vote published on the station's own domain. Confirmed editions run across 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which marks the ballot as a recurring holiday fixture. The live cycle's voting window runs from Wednesday September 16 at 6:00 am until Sunday October 18 at 11:59 pm. Shoppers, shop owners and their supporters vote directly on the ballot page, and the page names no categories and sets out no limit on repeat voting.

For Which Beer You Think Should Be Named West Michigans Favorite Beer

97.9 WGRD, a Grand Rapids rock radio station, runs a public beer poll that crowns West Michigan's Favorite Beer. Listeners nominate favorites, then vote on a ballot that sits on wgrd.com, the station's own domain. Confirmed editions ran every June across 2022, 2023 and 2024, then again in 2025 and 2026, five straight years. The ballot page carries the live list of beers; day-level dates and current rules are not fixed here, so check the ballot itself before you plan a push.

For Your Favorite Coffee Shop In West Michigan (wkfr)

WKFR-FM, the 103.3 WKFR hit-music station in Kalamazoo, Michigan, runs a public-vote ballot asking listeners to pick their favorite coffee shop in West Michigan. The ballot lives inside the station's own pages at wkfr.com, with confirmed editions in 2018 and 2026 and a daily vote described through September 18th. Results follow on Monday morning after the close, and the vote sits beside the station's schedule and listener club rather than on any separate balloting service.

For Your Favorite High School Basketball Team (theticket953)

For Your Favorite High School Basketball Team is a public team vote run by WBCK, the Michigan radio station branded 95.3 The Ticket, and hosted on the station's website. The ballot asks listeners across Southwest Michigan to back a favorite high school basketball squad. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and from 2021 through 2025, and the voting window falls in March, with the ballot text stating voting ends March 4th. The station permits one vote per person, per day.

For Your Favorite High School Marching Band In S W Michigan (wkfr)

103.3 WKFR, a Kalamazoo hit-music radio station, runs a public vote for the favorite high school marching band in Southwest Michigan. The ballot is published directly on wkfr.com, with no outside balloting service in between, which sets it apart from the newspaper and magazine readers-choice programs elsewhere in Michigan. The 2020 voting period ran from Friday, November 7th through Thursday, November 20th at 5 AM, after a nomination round.

For Your Favorite Personal Trainer In Southwest Michigan (theticket953)

WBCK, the radio company behind 95.3 The Ticket, invites listeners across Southwest Michigan to name their favorite personal trainer on a ballot it hosts itself. The confirmed editions ran in 2020 and 2021, both anchored to January, and the 2020 ballot closed on Thursday, Jan 16th. The poll honors National Personal Trainer Day on January 2nd.

For Your Favorite Southwest Michigan Mascot

WBCK, the Michigan radio station behind 95.3 The Ticket, invites listeners to back their favorite Southwest Michigan high school mascot on a ballot hosted on WBCK's own domain. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and 2021, both tied to September and the return of school. The 2019 vote closed Wednesday, Sept 18th, with results announced on air. Category detail, vote limits and the next edition year were never printed.

Gaylord Herald Times Football Player of the Year

Readers of the Gaylord Herald Times, a masthead of northern Michigan's Charlevoix Courier group, pick a Football Player of the Year for the Gaylord area through a free online ballot hosted by Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. The confirmed 2025 window fell in November and an earlier edition ran in 2022. The ballot page prints no rules text and no category list beyond the single question.

Genesee County Business In The Running For Fedex Contest

WCRZ, a Michigan radio station, runs a public ballot that sends support behind Genesee County small businesses nominated for the FedEx Small Business Grant Contest, a program carrying a $25,000 prize. The station's page urges listeners to vote and notes voting goes through April 5th. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and then from 2022 through 2025, and the ballot sits on wcrz.com rather than a third-party platform.

GHT Male Athlete of the Year

GHT Male Athlete of the Year honors high school athletes from Gaylord-area schools in Michigan through a public vote run by GHT on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). The latest ballot closed in June 2026 after a 2022 edition, giving the award an annual rhythm.

Grand Rapids Magazine Best of GR

Annual Grand Rapids Magazine readers-choice poll covering West Michigan, a single open ballot across roughly 100 categories with no separate nomination round, now in its 16th consecutive year as of 2025.

GRKIDS Family Choice Awards

A Grand Rapids family votes on which local businesses, doctors and childcare providers deserve the title of best in the GRKIDS Family Choice Awards. The 2026 cycle ran a nomination round from January 29 to February 10, then opened finalist voting on February 18 and closed it on March 4. GRKIDS publishes the ballot on its own website, and winners follow in May 2026. The 2025 edition is also confirmed, so the program runs as an annual fixture for West Michigan families and the businesses they reward.

HBA Grand Rapids Parade of Homes People's Choice

HBA of Greater Grand Rapids' Spring Parade of Homes, billed as West Michigan's largest new-home parade, most recently confirmed for May 30 through June 7, 2025. The Parade includes a People's Choice award; the exact voting mechanic isn't published on hbaglbr.com in the record checked for this guide.

HBA Michigan Southeast Parade of Homes People's Choice

Home Builders Association of Michigan runs the Southeast Michigan Parade of Homes, confirmed for June 1 through 30, 2026, and described by the statewide association as Michigan's largest home-building event. A People's Choice vote runs alongside the home tours; how that vote actually gets cast isn't spelled out anywhere on hbaofmichigan.com that this guide located.

Holland Community’s Choice Awards

A best-of ballot for Holland, Michigan businesses and organizations, the Holland Community’s Choice Awards is published by the Gannett / USA TODAY Network local paper and runs on the Your Choice Awards site. Nominations closed December 22, 2025, the voting round ran February 2-16, 2026, and winners were announced April 14, 2026.

Hometown Life Football Player of the Week

Hometown Life, a Michigan publisher serving Detroit's suburbs, names a weekly Football Player of the Week through a free Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Where MLive runs metro editions, this poll draws nominees from several suburban school communities at once. Seasons are confirmed from 2022 through 2026, with ballots dated between May and November.

Hometown Life Prep Athlete of the Week

Hometown Life, a Michigan publisher, runs the Prep Athlete of the Week as a public poll for high school athletes on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ten editions are confirmed, every year from 2017 through 2026, and voting happens in a March window. The publisher says each poll stays open until Friday and welcomes repeat voting without limit. Open and close dates, the award's category list and any per-supporter limit are absent from the poll page.

Hour Detroit Best of Detroit

Hour Detroit Magazine's annual Best of Detroit readers-choice awards, drawing over 1 million votes each June cycle across six groups, Food, Bars, Museums, Shops, Salons, and Personalities, with winners celebrated at the Best of Detroit Party at the Westin Book Cadillac, run separately from Metro Times' own Best of Detroit ballot.

Jackson Citizen Patriot Jackson-Area Athlete of the Week

Each week the Jackson Citizen Patriot posts a Crowdsignal poll naming its pick of the Jackson-area high school sports scene. Anyone can vote on the poll.fm ballot, which needs no account. Confirmed seasons run in 2019 and again from 2022 through 2026, with poll activity spanning September through June. Round deadlines and the route into the nominee list appear only on the live poll itself, since the publisher prints no schedule beside it.

Kalamazoo Parade of Homes People's Choice

The Kalamazoo HBA's Parade of Homes People's Choice ballot lives at kalamazoohomepage.com/peopleschoice and opens only during the parade's own event window. Visitors who tour the show homes cast the vote, so a campaign built around a fixed calendar date rather than the actual tour dates will find the page closed.

Lakeshore HBA Parade of Homes People's Choice

Lakeshore HBA runs the Parade of Homes People's Choice award in the Holland/Zeeland area of West Michigan, confirmed to open the first two weekends of June at lakeshoreparadeofhomes.com. The exact voting mechanic, cap, and category list aren't published anywhere located for this guide; the live site is the only source each cycle.

Lansing Community Choice Awards

YourChoiceAwards Lansing's annual readers-choice program for Michigan's capital city and the wider Greater Lansing area, run on a Gannett platform at yourchoiceawards.com/lansing, with the 2025 cycle's winners and finalists confirmed as published and the program run separately from the local outlet City Pulse.

Lenawee County Boys Athlete of the Year

The Lenawee County Boys Athlete of the Year is a county-wide fan vote that runs as a single Crowdsignal poll on poll.fm. The 2023 and 2024 editions are the confirmed ones, and July held the voting window in the latest cycle. That most recent ballot has closed, and the organizer has not announced when a new round will appear.

Lenawee Preseason Girls Soccer Player of the Year

This fan-voted award turns preseason high school girls soccer in Lenawee County, Michigan into an open online ballot. Lenawee is the organizer named on the poll, and Crowdsignal carries the vote at its poll.fm address. The program has confirmed runs in 2023 and 2025, with the 2025 round live in March before it closed. Supporters pick from a short list of nominees tied to area schools. Nothing published states when the next round opens; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Lenawee Preseason Softball Player of the Year

This award asks softball supporters to pick a standout high school player from the Lenawee, Michigan area before the season begins, with the ballot sitting on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Two cycles are on file, 2023 and 2025, and the most recent poll went live in March before closing. Nominees came from schools in Adrian, Blissfield, Clinton, Hudson, Madison, Morenci, Sand Creek and Britton Deerfield. The organizer has not announced dates for the next cycle.

Light Up The Lakeshore: County-Wide Holiday Light Competition

Light Up The Lakeshore is a county-wide holiday light competition run by City of Muskegon Parks & Recreation in Muskegon, Michigan. Three editions are on the books: 2023, 2024 and 2025. For the 2025 cycle, residents registered their displays between October 15 and December 1, and public voting ran December 5 through December 15, with the winner announced December 18. The ballot sits on the organizer's own engagement site, and voting is open to everyone with one vote counted per person.

Lowell Ledger Best of the Best

The Lowell Ledger, covering Lowell, Michigan, runs Best of the Best on a Second Street ballot hosted through The Daily News's platform account at thedailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. The confirmed window runs July 25 through September 14, 2026, the program's first confirmed edition. Whether a second edition follows, and what categories or limits might eventually govern it, stays unpublished for now; the live ballot is what eventually answers each of those questions.

Macomb Business Awards

Macomb County government's annual business recognition program, combining a judged panel with open community nominations, honoring employers across Sterling Heights, Warren, Clinton Township, and the rest of Macomb County at a May gala.

Metro Detroit Football Player of the Week for Action

A weekly fan vote for Michigan high school football in the Metro Detroit market runs on Crowdsignal through its poll.fm domain. Seasons are confirmed for 2023 and 2024, with ballots appearing between August and November. Supporters choose a nominee from the listed players and schools and submit their pick. Window dates, category details and any vote limits go unpublished by the organizer, so look to the current ballot each cycle.

Metro Times Best of Detroit

Annual Detroit Metro Times readers-choice poll for the Detroit metro area, with a write-in nomination ballot across 100+ categories decided entirely by public reader votes.

MI Home Paper Best of the Best

MI Home Paper runs an annual Best of the Best readers' poll across its network of West and Southwest Michigan community papers, voting on a shared ballot portal at mihomepaper.com/best-of-the-best/. The exact list of participating papers, categories, and close date isn't detailed in the public record.

Michiana's A-List 2026

WTRC-FM, a Michigan radio station, runs Michiana's A-List 2026 as a public-vote best-of ballot hosted on Second Street. The combined nomination and voting cycle opened on September 7, 2026 and stays open through October 14, 2026. This page collects what the ballot confirms, what the station has left unstated, and the literal steps a supporter follows to cast a vote during the live window.

MLive Flint-Area Athlete of the Week

The MLive Flint-Area Athlete of the Week lets readers back high school athletes across all sports in the Flint area of Michigan, run by the publisher MLive on Crowdsignal. Confirmed editions fall in 2023, 2025 and 2026, and ballots have run from January into August. The current ballot at poll.fm is closed, and MLive has not posted the next ballot's opening date.

MLive Flint-Area Football Player of the Week

Nominations for the MLive Flint-Area Football Player of the Week close at 11:59 p.m. on September 16, and the vote stays open until 9 a.m. on Friday, September 18. MLive runs the weekly ballot on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) for high school football in the Flint, Michigan area. Repeat voting is allowed without limit under the publisher's own printed rule, and the current featured ballot for Week 8 already shows as closed.

MLive Media Group Kalamazoo-Area Prep Football Player of the Week

Kalamazoo-area high school football fans in Michigan pick the MLive Media Group Prep Football Player of the Week each week of the season. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot at poll.fm, with confirmed seasons in 2021, 2022 and 2026 and weekly voting across September and October. MLive says supporters may vote as often as they wish, and each week's poll stays open until Monday at 9 a.m.

MLive West Michigan Readers' Choice

MLive's West Michigan Readers' Choice program runs on the SecondStreet voting platform at mlive.secondstreetapp.com, covering the Kent, Ottawa, and Kalamazoo county metro area under Advance Local's MLive newsroom. It's a confirmed, separate ballot from Grand Rapids Magazine's Best of GR, with exact categories and dates set on the live site each cycle.

Moore Mechanical Athlete of the Week

Moore Mechanical Athlete of the Week is a public-vote high school sports ballot run by Moore Mechanical on the Crowdsignal polling service at poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in 2023, 2025 and 2026, with ballots circulating from October through June. A recent ballot drew 12,627 votes for its leading entry. Supporters simply open the ballot and click.

MOTOR Top 20 Awards

The MOTOR Top 20 Awards recognize tools, technologies, training and solutions across the automotive industry, and the winner of each entry is decided by public vote on MOTOR's own website. MOTOR Information Systems, a Hearst company based in Troy, Michigan, runs the program. For the 2026 cycle, entries were accepted from May 1 through June 12, 2026, and voting runs July 1 through July 31, 2026, with each person allowed a single vote per entry per day. Confirmed editions cover 2025 and 2026.

Player of the Year Winter Edition Boys Basketball

CatchMark SportsNet, a Michigan sports publisher, runs the Player of the Year Winter Edition Boys Basketball poll, with the ballot itself hosted by Crowdsignal under its poll.fm domain. The 2026 ballot opened March 17 and closed March 24, a seven-day window the publisher announced on catchmarksports.com. Edition years of 2023 and 2025 qualify the program as annual. The latest tally logged 4,308 votes across three school communities: Whitehall, Oakridge and Muskegon. No category list, vote cap or eligibility rule appears on the published ballot.

Player of the Year Winter Edition Boys Bowling

CatchMark SportsNet publishes a public vote called Player of the Year Winter Edition Boys Bowling for its Michigan high school readership. The ballot is hosted on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) and voting occupies the December to February stretch of the winter season. Confirmed editions of the award ran in 2022 and 2025.

Player of the Year Winter Edition Girls Basketball

CatchMark SportsNet runs the Player of the Year Winter Edition Girls Basketball poll on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service, open to supporters across Michigan. Confirmed seasons are 2023 and 2025, and the 2026 edition opened March 17, 2026 for seven days of voting. The most recent closed poll drew 9,533 total votes. This page collects the confirmed facts, the voting steps and the rules gaps a supporter should know before the next winter cycle.

Preseason Lenawee Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year

Lenawee County, Michigan's preseason vote for the top boys track and field performer belongs to The Daily Telegram, the newspaper behind lenconnect.com. The ballot is a Crowdsignal poll at a poll.fm address, and editions ran in 2023 and 2025. The 2025 poll carried nominees from Addison, Adrian, Blissfield, Clinton, Hudson, Tecumseh and Britton Deerfield, was live in March, and now displays its final standings.

Preseason Lenawee County Baseball Player of the Year

A countywide baseball fan vote for Lenawee County, Michigan, the Preseason Lenawee County Baseball Player of the Year lets supporters pick a player of the year on Crowdsignal. The 2023 and 2025 runs are confirmed, each with a March voting window. The 2025 ballot has closed, and 2026 is the next expected edition. Dates, categories and any vote limit go unprinted by the organizer.

Q100 Michigan Odawa Casino Tournament of Rock 7.0 – Best Rock & Roll Song Edition

Blarney Stone Broadcasting runs the Q100 Michigan Odawa Casino Tournament of Rock 7.0 – Best Rock & Roll Song Edition across its northern Michigan radio stations. The 2026 cycle opened with an entry period in March, moved 32 qualifiers into a listener bracket, and closed online voting on 5/22/26 at 8:29AM. Voting is unlimited and open to all listeners. The contest rules are published at q100michigan.com.

Readers Digest Poll Where Is The Nicest Place In Michigan (wrkr)

One question drives this Michigan poll, where is the nicest place in the state, and the public supplies the answer. The vote lives at wrkr.com, the website of the radio station WRKR. Seven editions have already run, from 2020 through 2026, making this an annual fixture. Ballot activity tied to the page falls in July, though the station prints no exact opening or closing dates on the poll itself.

Red Hot Best of Northern Michigan

Traverse Magazine's annual Up North readers' poll — nominate, then vote, for favorite dining, lodging, shopping, real estate, and service businesses across the Grand Traverse region.

South Haven Best Of

South Haven Best Of is the readers' choice ballot that The Herald-Palladium runs for the South Haven community in Michigan. The newspaper hosts the vote on Second Street at heraldpalladium.secondstreetapp.com, and editions are confirmed for 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The 2025 ballot printed a call for favorite places, people and activities in South Haven, with nominations running through October. Category details and any limits on how often a supporter may submit are not printed on that page.

Support Services Honors And Awards

Michigan's Support Services Honors And Awards program is run by St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, hosted on the college's own website rather than an outside voting platform. Nominations for the 2026 winter semester remain open through Friday, March 13. The page covers who qualifies, how faculty and staff nominate, and what the college has and has not published.

Tag Ranked Choice

Tag Ranked Choice is the ranked choice voting page run by The Collegian, the Michigan newspaper behind the Hillsdale Collegian masthead, on its own website at hillsdalecollegian.com. Its confirmed editions so far cover 2025 and 2026, and the archived coverage sits in an October window. Exact ballot dates, the category list and any per-supporter rules are not printed on the page, so readers should check the organizer's own site before acting.

Tag Selfie

Tag Selfie is the ballot selfie tag page maintained by The Collegian, the Michigan newspaper publishing at hillsdalecollegian.com. Confirmed activity spans 2025 and 2026, and the current cycle runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. Unlike the structured readers-choice ballots run by other Michigan publishers, this page is an article archive built around the ballot selfie topic. Categories, vote limits and eligibility rules are not published on it, so supporters should read the live page each cycle before acting on any assumption.

The Cheboygan Daily Tribune Athlete of the Week

The Cheboygan Daily Tribune lets its readers choose the area's weekly high school athlete honor. Ballots run on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service, go live Tuesday and close at 9 p.m. Thursday, with unlimited voting until the close. The ballot now shown at the voting link is the May 26-30 poll, marked Poll Closed. Confirmed seasons run 2022 through 2026, drawn from 39 published weekly ballots.

The Daily News Gridiron Fan Picks

The Daily News, covering Montcalm County and Ionia County, Michigan, runs Gridiron Fan Picks on the Second Street platform at thedailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2025 and 2026, with the second of those two windows running August 22 through November 6. Past that window, what the ballot actually allows for categories or a vote limit is what the live page itself settles, confirmed fresh each cycle.

The Daily Telegram Athlete of the Week

Michigan readers decide The Daily Telegram Athlete of the Week. The Daily Telegram, a newspaper published at lenconnect.com, posts each round of this high school sports poll on Crowdsignal, and its own announcement set the latest confirmed close at noon Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Confirmed seasons of the series span 2021, 2022 and 2026 across 32 ballots, and a fresh ballot replaces the old one every week.

The Flint Journal Flint-Area Athlete of the Week

The Flint Journal Flint-Area Athlete of the Week gives Flint area, Michigan readers a weekly high school sports vote on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Its representative winter ballot covered Feb. 23 through March 8 and is closed, the publisher permits unlimited submissions, and only poll-form submissions count toward the result.

The Holland Sentinel Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Holland, Michigan's boys basketball player of the year award is decided by a public vote presented by The Holland Sentinel, the city's own newspaper, with the ballot living on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Confirmed editions: 2022, 2024 and 2025, and the voting window falls in December. The page below explains who presents the award, which editions are confirmed, how a supporter casts a vote, and where precise dates and rules still need checking against the live ballot.

The Holland Sentinel Football Player of the Year

Readers of The Holland Sentinel, the Michigan newspaper in Holland, decide the season's top high school football player through this public vote. The 2025 ballot ran in August on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with nominees drawn from West Ottawa and Holland high schools. Editions are confirmed in 2023 and 2025, and the paper prints no rules text alongside the ballot.

The Holland Sentinel Girls Athlete of the Year

Holland, Michigan readers vote each June in The Holland Sentinel Girls Athlete of the Year, a public high school sports award run by the newspaper. The ballot sits on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/17130812, where supporters pick from girls athletes of the year across the Holland area's high schools. The Sentinel has not printed precise voting days for the latest girls athlete cycle, so readers confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Holland Sentinel Top Performer of the Week

The Holland Sentinel, the daily newspaper serving Holland, Michigan, asks readers each week to name the top performer among area high school athletes. The ballot sits on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host, and confirmed seasons ran in 2024 and 2025. Each weekly poll stays open until noon Friday. Sports on recent ballots included wrestling and basketball, and nominees come from Holland-area high school programs.

The Holland Sentinel Volleyball Player of the Year

The Holland Sentinel, the newspaper in Holland, Michigan, decides its Volleyball Player of the Year through a reader poll on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host. Confirmed ballots ran in 2022 and 2024, with the 2024 round live during August and now closed. A December 2019 entry in the paper's own people index shows the honor existed well before the confirmed ballot years. The Sentinel also publishes a preseason edition of the same vote. The ballot page carries no printed open or close dates.

The Holland-Area Girls Basketball Player of the Year

The Holland Sentinel publishes this winter fan vote for high school girls basketball around Holland, Michigan. The 2022 and 2025 runs are confirmed, and voting falls in December. Crowdsignal's poll.fm hosts the ballot, which lists nominees from West Ottawa, Holland, Zeeland and other area schools. Open and close dates, rules and any daily limit are not printed with the poll, so read the live ballot before rallying support.

The Journal Baseball Player of the Year

The Journal, a Michigan publisher, hands out this yearly baseball award to a prep player of the year. Crowdsignal hosts the vote at poll.fm. The confirmed years are 2023, 2025 and 2026, and voting lands in July. The latest ballot closed at 1,208 total votes among nominees from Mendon, Marcellus and White Pigeon. Daily dates, category detail and any per-person limit go unprinted by the organizer.

Vote for Battle Creek Enquirer Athlete of the Week Week

Run by the Battle Creek Enquirer newspaper, this weekly high school sports ballot lives on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in 2017 and 2018, then 2020 through 2025 without interruption, and the current ballot is headed Week of March 3-8. Unlike the MLive football ballots elsewhere in Michigan, this one covers every high school sport and is based in Battle Creek.

Vote for Battle Creek Enquirer Preseason Boys Basketball Player of the Year

The Battle Creek Enquirer runs a preseason boys basketball poll each fall, asking readers to pick the area's top player before the season begins. The vote happens on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Editions ran in 2024 and 2025 with windows in November and December, ahead of the Battle Creek, Michigan winter season. The ballot lists area high school nominees, and any visitor can select and submit without an account or a fee.

Vote for Bronson Battle Creek/Battle Creek Enquirer Athlete of the Week Week

Each week of the high school sports season, the Battle Creek Enquirer posts an Athlete of the Week ballot for the Battle Creek, Michigan area, presented by Bronson Battle Creek Hospital. Confirmed seasons span 2025 and 2026, and the current ballot covers the week of May 25-30. Voting takes place on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, where the live round sits at poll.fm/17068076. Unlike the football-only player of the week polls run by MLive in nearby Michigan markets, this programme takes in every high school sport, with separate boys and girls awards during the 2026 season.

Vote for CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in boys basketball

CatchMark SportsNet WMC runs a public fan ballot naming a player of the year in Michigan boys basketball, carried on a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm. Two edition years stand, 2023 and 2024, and the 2023-24 vote ran and shut within March 2024, its winner taking 61 percent of 3,950 votes cast. Opening days, closing days and any per-supporter rule sit with the organizer and belong on the live ballot each cycle.

Vote for Metro Detroit Football Player of the Week for action

Metro Detroit football fans pick a weekly player of the week through a free Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Confirmed seasons ran in 2023 and 2024, with voting active across the August to November stretch of the high school football calendar. Each weekly round's opening and closing days are not printed in advance, so supporters confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Vote for MLive Saginaw football player of the week

MLive Saginaw runs a weekly poll naming a standout from Friday night football across its Saginaw, Michigan coverage zone. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot at poll.fm, separate from the publisher's Bay City edition. Polls are confirmed for 2023, 2024 and 2025, with voting falling between September and November, and the live ballot shuts at 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The publisher prints nothing on the ballot page about categories or per-supporter limits.

Vote for the Best of Ann Arbor 2026

The Michigan Daily invites the University of Michigan community, Ann Arbor residents and anyone fond of the city to name their favorite local businesses in its yearly readers' ballot. The 2026 vote runs from September 9 through September 23, 2026, on the newspaper's own specials site, and documented editions also fall in 2023 and 2025. The Daily's page lists no categories and sets out no per-person limit in advance, so those details belong to the live ballot itself.

Vote for the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week

This Michigan high school sports poll covers the Blue Water region. Crowdsignal's poll.fm page at poll.fm/17049225 carries the ballot. Confirmed editions ran every year from 2019 through 2026. The most recent window covered May 18 to May 23. Supporters may vote once every hour according to the organizer's published rule.

Vote for the Hillsdale Daily News Athlete of the Week: Snow Day Edition

The Hillsdale Daily News invites readers in Hillsdale, Michigan to pick its Athlete of the Week: Snow Day Edition, a winter sports poll for area high school athletes carried on the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm. Editions ran in 2021, 2022 and 2026, and the 2026 reader poll stayed open through January 18, 2026. The publisher has not printed the exact opening date or the per-person voting rule, so the wording shown on the live ballot is what settles those points.

Vote for the Times Herald Prep Football Player of the Week

The Times Herald Prep Football Player of the Week poll is a weekly public-vote ballot run by The Times Herald, the Port Huron newspaper, during the Michigan high school football season. Voting runs each fall, with editions confirmed in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ballot is built on Crowdsignal at its poll.fm address, and supporters may vote multiple times. Entry deadlines and weekly close times are printed on each live poll.

Vote: Who should be High School on SI's Michigan Athlete of the Week

Michigan's statewide athlete of the week fan vote comes from SI's Michigan, with ballots carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm pages. Seasons in 2024 and 2025 are confirmed, and voting runs from October through March. Every weekly ballot ends late Sunday night, 11:59 p.m. Pacific, and the result lands Monday. Readers and staff supply the nominees; a supporter picks one and submits.

Vote! Vote for this week's The Daily Telegram Athlete of the Week

Run by The Daily Telegram, a Michigan newspaper, this weekly Athlete of the Week poll lets readers pick the standout prep athlete of each award week on the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm. One confirmed ballot, covering the Feb. 9 to Feb. 15 week, is closed. Seasons sit at 2021, 2022 and 2026. Nominees come from the paper's coverage area, and supporters should read the live ballot's own rules before rallying votes, since every fresh poll resets its window.

WDIV Vote 4 The Best

WDIV-TV's annual Metro Detroit readers-choice program, run through ClickOnDetroit, where the public nominates and then votes for favorite local businesses across roughly 80 categories before results air on the station.

West Michigan's Favorite Tattoo Artist (WGRD-FM)

West Michigan's Favorite Tattoo Artist is WGRD-FM's annual fan-vote contest, run at wgrd.com. The confirmed 2018 edition took over 3,000 nominations down to a top twenty, then opened voting from noon Tuesday, September 11 through 11:59 p.m. Monday, September 17. Archived pages also show the contest live in 2026, with day-level dates unconfirmed for that year.

Who gets your vote for MLive Bay City Athlete of the Week

MLive Bay City runs a weekly high school Athlete of the Week ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, asking readers who gets their vote for the standout performer of the week across Bay City, Michigan area fall sports. Confirmed years run from 2021 through 2026. The live 2026 ballot closes on Thursday, September 17, and MLive states supporters may cast unlimited repeat votes while the round is open.

Who gets your vote for MLive Bay City Player of the Week

MLive Bay City runs a weekly reader poll asking who gets your vote for Player of the Week, hosted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Six confirmed editions ran between 2020 and 2025, and across those seasons ballots were posted between August and November. The link served for voting is a single ballot page, and the ballot currently shown there is closed. The market is Bay City, Michigan, with answer options drawn from area high schools.

Who should be the Journal's Midseason Boy's Basketball Player of the Year presented by Glen Oaks

The Journal asks its Sturgis, Michigan readers one midseason question: who should be its Boy's Basketball Player of the Year, presented by Glen Oaks. The vote runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, with nominees drawn from area schools including Sturgis, White Pigeon, Mendon, Colon and Bronson. The 2023 and 2026 winters are the confirmed editions, and the 2026 ballot stayed open until noon on a Friday inside a January window. This page collects what the ballot confirms and flags what it leaves unstated.

Who was the Holland Sentinel Boys Athlete of the Year

The Holland Sentinel asks readers in Holland, Michigan to pick its boys high school athlete of the year on a free Crowdsignal poll. The latest June window has closed, ending with a 46 percent to 40 percent finish. Confirmed editions sit in 2022, 2025 and 2026, and no exact start or finish dates appear on the ballot itself.

Who was the Holland Sentinel High School Athlete of the Week

The Holland Sentinel runs this weekly athlete of the week ballot for Holland, Michigan, counted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Confirmed seasons run from 2021 through 2026, with ballots active across the school year from September into June. The most recent window cited by the newspaper closed at noon on Friday, September 4, 2026. Nominees come through the paper's sports desk, and supporters pick one name on the live ballot. Nominee lineups and each new round's opening and closing times are not fixed in advance; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Win D2 D2 Player of the Year in Michigan

Win D2 runs a statewide fan vote in Michigan that asks readers to pick the Division 2 Player of the Year. The ballot runs on the Crowdsignal platform, with the poll itself at poll.fm, and the most recent confirmed edition closed on December 12 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Editions are confirmed for 2023, 2025 and 2026. This page explains who votes, how the poll works, what Win D2 has and has not published, and how the ballot sits beside the weekly player-of-the-week contests elsewhere in the state.

Win D3 D3 Player of the Year in Michigan

Win D3 runs a statewide high school poll asking who will win D3 Player of the Year in Michigan, hosted at poll.fm as ballot 17347970. Three editions are confirmed, 2023, 2025 and 2026, and voting falls in July and August each cycle. Unlike Michigan's weekly metro player of the week ballots, this program names a single division-wide honoree per edition. Exact window dates and nomination rules go unpublished by Win D3.

Win D4 D4 Player of the Year in Michigan

This page describes the Win D4 player of the year ballot for Michigan's Division 4 high school ranks. Win D4 organizes the vote, Crowdsignal hosts it at poll.fm, and confirmed editions run through 2026 with each voting window falling in August. The ballot page prints no rules text and no exact dates.

WKFR Favorite West Michigan High School Mascot

Favorite West Michigan High School Mascot is WKFR-FM's fan vote for high schools across the region, run directly at wkfr.com. Archived pages show the contest active across eight separate years between 2018 and 2026, with one earlier version of the page recording a Monday, September 10th, close in a past cycle. As of September 2026, wkfr.com does not publish a school roster, a category roster, or a per-voter limit anywhere; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

WKFR Your Favorite High School Marching Band

103.3 WKFR invites Michigan listeners to back their local high school marching bands on a public fan ballot hosted at poll.fm. Its confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and the 2025 cycle has printed dates: nominations from Tuesday, November 4th through Friday, November 7th, then voting through Thursday, November 20th at 5 AM. The station caps each supporter at a single vote per day, so band communities that organize a daily return carry the count.

WYCE Jammie Awards

Unlike general best-of ballots across the state, the WYCE Jammie Awards are a Michigan music honor run by Grand Rapids radio station WYCE. Public voting for its best artist and best album fields closes Feb. 1, and the 2026 edition takes place Feb. 20 at The Intersection. Voting happens on the organizer's own Local Spins ballot page.

Your Favorite Tattoo Shop in Southwest Michigan

103.3 WKFR, the Kalamazoo hit-music station, asks listeners a single question with this ballot: which tattoo shop in southwest Michigan is their favorite. Voting happens at poll.fm on the Crowdsignal host. Editions are confirmed for 2021, 2025 and 2026, and the 2025 window ran from Friday, February 13th through 5 am on Friday, March 6th. A nomination round precedes the vote, and shops from Niles to Battle Creek appear on the ballot.

Zz Top Photo Contest

The Zz Top Photo Contest is a public-vote ballot run by WRKR, the classic rock station behind 107.7 RKR the Rocker, on the station's own website in Michigan. Confirmed editions run across 2019 through 2026. Winners receive pairs of tickets to ZZ Top at Wings Event Center on October 30th. Window dates and category details should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

2026 UPAWS Pet Calendar Contest

Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter Inc runs the 2026 UPAWS Pet Calendar Contest, a pet photo ballot hosted on GoGo Photo Contest for animal lovers in Gwinn and the Marquette area of Michigan. The 2026 voting window ran the whole month of August 2025, and each vote carried a one dollar donation to the shelter. The 2026 edition is the second confirmed year for the calendar, after a 2025 run. Whether a category list or prize detail changes for the next cycle, readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best Burgers in Southwest Michigan

WKFR-FM and sibling station WBCK (95.3 The Ticket) run the same Southwest Michigan burger vote every September. The confirmed 2021 cycle split into an eight-day nomination window and a two-week voting window, drawing nearly 3,000 votes. The current cycle's exact dates aren't confirmed anywhere on either station's site; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best Burgers Kalamazoo

Best Burgers Kalamazoo is WKFR-FM's annual burger vote, syndicated to sibling Townsquare Media station WRKR (107.7 The Rocker), covering Kalamazoo County. The 2022 edition ran the full month of September. Beyond that confirmed window, neither station spells out fixed categories or a per-fan voting limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for either.

For West Michigans Favorite Taco

WGRD-FM, a Grand Rapids radio station in Michigan, invites listeners to nominate and then vote for the taco spot that deserves the title of West Michigan's favorite. Hundreds of nominations once produced a final ballot of ten taco places, and confirmed editions of the contest have appeared across 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 on the station's own website. Every fact the station has not printed, including day-level dates for the newest cycle, rests with the live ballot.