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The public fan ballot that runs alongside the coaches' vote for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, college hockey's top individual honor, among the season's ten nominated NCAA Division I men's players. One vote per fan, cast at hobeybaker.com, feeding into the cut to three finalists.
Statewide Minnesota (Class 1A programs) · SI Minnesota (High School on SI / Sports Illustrated)
Annual December fan vote run by SI Minnesota, awarded separately for each classification the way Iowa's SI football Player of the Year runs, so the Class 1A field never competes against Class 6A powerhouses. Confirmed active for the 2025 season. Free to vote, no account required, published at si.com/high-school/minnesota.
Statewide Minnesota (Class 2A programs) · SI Minnesota (High School on SI / Sports Illustrated)
Annual December fan vote run by SI Minnesota for Class 2A only, one of six separate enrollment-class ballots the outlet publishes for Minnesota football, mirroring the format it runs for Iowa. Confirmed active for the 2025 season. Free to vote, no account required, published at si.com/high-school/minnesota.
Statewide Minnesota (Class 3A programs) · SI Minnesota (High School on SI / Sports Illustrated)
Annual December fan vote run by SI Minnesota for Class 3A only, one of six separate enrollment-class ballots the outlet publishes for Minnesota football, matching the class-by-class format it also runs for Iowa. Confirmed active for the 2025 season. Free to vote, no account required, published at si.com/high-school/minnesota.
Statewide Minnesota (Class 6A programs) · SI Minnesota (High School on SI / Sports Illustrated)
Annual December fan vote run by SI Minnesota for Class 6A only — MSHSL's largest enrollment classification and one of six separate class ballots the outlet runs for Minnesota football, mirroring the format it also uses for Iowa. Free to vote, no account required, published at si.com/high-school/minnesota.
Statewide Minnesota · SI Minnesota
A weekly fan-vote ballot run by SI Minnesota each fall, separate from the statewide Athlete of the Week poll and open only to football performances. The season runs roughly ten weeks, September through November, tracking the Minnesota high school football calendar. No account is required to cast a vote, and the public decides the winner directly.
Statewide Minnesota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)
Free statewide fan-vote poll run weekly at si.com by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated), covering all MSHSL-sanctioned sports seasons. Fans cast unlimited human votes; automated scripts are banned and trigger athlete disqualification. Voting closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT.
The High School on SI spring fan vote for the best Minnesota prep baseball performance of the week. Jack Butler's regional editors nominate standout pitchers and hitters; anyone can vote unlimited times at si.com, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT — a different clock than the football POTW, which runs on Central time.
The High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Minnesota prep football performance of the week. Editors nominate 13–19 players from across all MSHSL classes, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. CT — a Central-time close that matters when campaigns span two or three time zones of fan support.
Statewide Minnesota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)
Season-culminating fan-vote award published annually by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group) at si.com/high-school/minnesota. Separate sport- and class-specific polls cover all MSHSL seasons; no per-vote cap applies; polls close at 11:59 p.m. PT on the stated date.
The High School on SI / SBLive fan vote for the best Minnesota prep softball performance of the week. Jack Butler's editorial team picks the nominees, anyone can vote unlimited times at si.com, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT — leaving Saturday finalists with only hours before the window shuts.
Statewide Minnesota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)
Girls-only, spring-season fan-vote award published annually at si.com/high-school/minnesota by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group). Class-specific polls open after the MSHSL girls softball state tournament at Caswell Park in North Mankato; no per-vote cap; automated scripts banned and trigger athlete disqualification.
Statewide Minnesota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)
Annual end-of-season fan-vote recognition published by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/minnesota, covering the top MSHSL wrestlers by class (2A and 3A boys) after the state tournament at Xcel Energy Center. No per-vote cap; polls closed March 15, 2026 for the 2025-26 season.
Statewide Minnesota · Minnesota All Sports Alliance (MN Football Hub)
Minnesota All Sports Alliance's annual statewide honor for the state's top high school football season, narrowed each year to ten finalists and decided through multiple rounds that combine public fan voting with a jury, run at mnfootballhub.com. A different structure from Minnesota's weekly, fan-only football polls.
The weekly statewide fan vote for Minnesota boys high school hockey's "Top Performer," run by MN Hockey Hub in partnership with the Star Tribune's StribVarsity network. Coaches submit stats by Sunday 10 a.m., the ballot opens from those submissions, and the fan vote closes Saturday at noon.
Statewide Minnesota · Star Tribune StribVarsity (varsity.startribune.com)
Weekly recognition feature from the Star Tribune's StribVarsity high school sports vertical at varsity.startribune.com, honoring Minnesota prep athletes chosen by the editorial desk from emailed coach and reader nominations. No public ballot or vote count decides the pick; selections are confirmed running January through May 2026 across MSHSL winter and spring sports.
Each winter the PIL puts one question to Minnesota high school followers: who deserves the 6A player of the year title? The answer comes from a public vote served through Crowdsignal's poll.fm domain. Voting stretches from November into March, the View Results link keeps the standings visible while the race runs, and nominees appear by name with their schools beside a plain Vote button and no printed rules text.
Kitty owners across Minnesota enter photos of their cats in the 2025 Kitty Photo Calendar Contest, a fundraiser run by Feline Rescue, Inc. of St. Paul. The ballot sits on GoGo Photo Contest under the felinerescue2025 address, and the 2025 page set the entry and voting span from Monday, September 23 at 8am CDT until Sunday, October 13 at 8pm CDT. Winning kitties appear in the rescue's 2025 calendar. Confirmed platform editions cover 2024 and 2025.
Best Of Faribault The Best Place To Grab Ice Cream This Summer is a public-vote food program associated with KQCL and presented through power96radio.com in Minnesota. Confirmed edition years are 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The available timing evidence names Monday, August 27th for voting, while current ballot details require live-cycle confirmation.
Best of Local High School Sports 2025 is a public-vote prep sports ballot run by Leighton Broadcasting's St. Cloud operation on the Second Street platform. The 2025 window ran September 22 through November 1, 2025 and is now closed. Six editions have run since 2020, and the ballot pairs a nomination round with public voting each cycle.
Mankato Free Press's annual Best of Mankato readers-choice awards for the Mankato metro and South Central Minnesota, run at mankatofreepress.com/best-of/, with nomination and voting details confirmed only on the live page each cycle.
Best of Otter Tail County 2025 is a county readers' choice award published by Daily Journal Media of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and hosted on Second Street. The ballot, listed as a nomination and voting ballot, ran from June 20 to September 2, 2025 and is closed. Six editions have run since 2020, each with its own Second Street address, while the category list and the voting rules sit only on the live ballot.
Best Of Prom is a public-vote ballot that KMXK, a St. Cloud, Minnesota radio station, runs on its own website. The confirmed 2017 ballot invites visitors to vote for the best of prom and prints a Friday, April 14 voting close. Ballot pages across later years are confirmed as well, which makes the program an annual entry on the station's contest calendar rather than a standalone promotion.
The Duluth News Tribune's annual regional readers-choice ballot at duluthnewstribune.com/dntbest. Best of the Best 2025 winners were confirmed, and the 2026 cycle runs nominations June 22-July 10, voting July 20-August 7, with results publishing September 11.
InForum's annual Fargo-Moorhead metro readers-choice ballot, running nominations then public voting each fall across Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead, and Clay County, Minnesota.
West Central Tribune's annual readers-choice ballot for West Central Minnesota business categories, with nomination and a public July vote each year out of Willmar.
Best of the Best 2026 is the readers-choice ballot run by the West Central Tribune, the twice-weekly newspaper based in Willmar, Minnesota. The 2026 edition opened on April 10 and closed on May 16, hosted on Second Street. Five straight editions are confirmed, running from 2022 through 2026, and the 2027 round is the next one to expect.
The Brainerd Dispatch's regional readers-choice ballot for the Brainerd Lakes Area, run as a two-week nomination round followed by a full month of public voting, with results held until October.
Best of the Midwest is a regional readers-choice business program spanning Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa, operating under two domains, bestofthemidwest.com and bestofmidwest.com. Minnesota businesses are confirmed eligible. Categories, nomination steps, and the voting calendar are not published in the record used for this guide.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's annual Best of Twin Cities readers-choice awards, with write-in nominations each November, voting each January at bestof.mspmag.com, and results ranked Gold, Silver, and Bronze in the magazine's May issue. The 2026 cycle logged more than 118,000 votes cast.
Northfield · KDHL
Best Town in Minnesota is a statewide radio bracket run by KDHL, and this page tracks Northfield's entry at kdhlradio.com/vote-northfield-the-best-town-in-minnesota. Archived pages place the contest in 2019, then 2023 through 2026, and the station's own page states Northfield placed in the top 10 "the second year in a row." The current cycle's exact dates haven't been published; check the live site for them.
Twin Cities, Minnesota's Community Impact Awards honors local people, businesses, and nonprofits working to improve lives. Twin Cities Business (TCB) organizes this annual program. Confirmed edition years include 2025 and 2026. Voting occurs in October and November. Details vary by cycle; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Bloomington MN is Bloomington, Minnesota's stop on the CommunityVotes circuit, hosted at bloomingtonmn.communityvotes.com under a locally based partner. Three editions stand behind it so far, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the newest one already shows results, posted in August 2026. Day-level dates for that window, plus any category roster or per-supporter vote limit, stay unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Duluth's annual readers-choice business ballot at duluth.communityvotes.com, with the 2026 cycle confirmed live and separate from the Duluth News Tribune's own Best of the Best program. No public category list, vote cap, or exact calendar is published yet; confirm all three on the live site each cycle.
CommunityVotes Maple Grove is Maple Grove, Minnesota's stop on the same CommunityVotes circuit, hosted at maplegrove.communityvotes.com under a locally based partner. Three editions back the page, spanning 2023, 2025 and 2026, and this year's cycle already shows results posted in August 2026. Paradise Car Wash and M2 Financial Group back the page as featured supporters, though no category roster or per-supporter vote limit is published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Rochester's annual Minnesota readers-choice ballot at rochestermn.communityvotes.com, where the 2026 cycle confirms four active categories, General Contractors, Thrift Stores, Museums, and Flea Market, a narrower published list than most CommunityVotes sister cities in the state disclose this early in a cycle.
Four confirmed editions run behind CommunityVotes St. Cloud, spanning 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. That is a full run of annual history, yet the organizer's own page for the 2026 cycle, now showing results posted in August 2026, still keeps its category roster and its per-supporter vote limit unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Otter Tail County · Daily Journal Media
Best of Otter Tail County runs through Daily Journal Media on the Second Street platform, covering Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Six confirmed editions have run since 2020, the most recent voting window closing September 2, 2025. The account has not posted a 2026 date, a category roster, or a per-voter limit for this ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Minnesota 100 Club invites the public to honor outstanding first responders through its First Responder of the Year Award, hosted on the club's own website. Voters pick one hero in each of five groups, from peace officers to public safety telecommunications. Confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2024, and the 2024 nomination window stayed open through January.
Where the other Minnesota ballots on this site rank businesses, this public vote picks artwork for an official state license plate. KAWE, the Lakeland PBS station, hosts the ballot on lptv.org and sends voters to the state's parks plate page to choose among three finalist designs. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025, and the most recent window closed on a July 4th deadline.
KWWK invites Minnesota anglers and fishing fans to back their favorite entry in the Show Us Your Best Catch contest, presented with Scheels on the Quick Country site. The ballot lets each visitor vote once per day through noon on April 28, and a winning entry earns a $100 Scheels prize. Edition years on the site run from 2018 through 2026.
Quick Country 96.5, the KWWK call sign in Minnesota, runs Show Us Your Green as a seasonal fan vote published on quickcountry.com. Listeners show their green for the chance to win a $100 Visa gift voucher, and supporters may cast one vote per day until the noon close on Friday, March 24. Runs of the promotion appear in 2022, then 2023, 2024, 2025 and again in 2026, which marks it as a returning spring fixture rather than a single-year stunt.
KDHL invites listeners to pick the best catch in a photo vote hosted on the station's own site. The photo that collects the most votes earns a $100 Visa prize, and each supporter may cast a vote once a day through Dec. 6. The contest has confirmed editions stretching from 2017 through 2026, and the 2027 run is expected based on that annual pattern. Exact open dates, the full category structure and any limits are not stated on the reference page, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
KFIL, a radio station serving southeast Minnesota, invites listeners to pick the region's best high school mascot through a public vote hosted on kfilradio.com. The station has run the poll across the years 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, and the current ballot sits inside an April window. The station promises a winner reveal on Monday, May 1st and wishes every school luck. The station does not publish the exact opening and closing days ahead of time, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
KOOL 101.7, the on-air name of Minnesota radio station KLDJ, invites listeners to pick the films its Movies In The Park series screens. The ballot titled For The Movies You Want To See In Movies In The Park is published at kool1017.com, the web home KLDJ keeps for the station, and the printed window runs from Feb. 27 to March 12. Confirmed runs stretch from 2019 through 2026, and the station has printed no limit on how many picks one person may cast and no eligibility rule for the film pick.
KDCZ, a Minnesota rock radio station, stages For Your Favorite Beer Photo as an audience ballot on therockofrochester.com. Listeners submit or browse pictures of a favorite beer, sometimes with the beer in hand, and the crowd picks the winner. Confirmed editions run from 2017 through 2026, and the one month the round is proven live is June. KDCZ has not posted exact opening and closing days for the current cycle.
KWWK, the Quick Country radio station in Minnesota, publishes the vote page for MnDOT's Name A Snowplow Contest on its own site at quickcountry.com. The published voting window closed in February, on Friday the 26th of that month. The ballot is a straight favorite pick open to every visitor, and the station prints no category roster, no per-supporter limit and no eligibility text beside it.
WJON, a Minnesota radio station, runs the Burger Battles contest, a public vote asking listeners who serves the best place for a burger in Central Minnesota. The ballot lives on wjon.com itself. A past edition's page closed voting at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, June 3rd and named the winner Monday, June 4th. Confirmed runs span 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Rochester, Minnesota's annual public vote for vintage video games runs at Rochester on Tap. KDCZ hosts the ballot on therockofrochester.com each December. Confirmed edition years include 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. Supporters select titles for the event lineup through the organizer's own site platform. This reference page details the program structure and voting history for Minnesota participants.
Nominations for For Your Favorites In The Superior Christmas Lighting Challenge run in November with voting open through December 19, run by KLDJ radio in Minnesota. The program honors holiday light displays in the Superior area, with awards presented at Bentleyville on December 21. Confirmed edition years include 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025, and 2026.
KVSC 88.1 FM in St. Cloud, Minnesota asks listeners to rank the Top 20 albums of the year as played on the station, with KVSC volunteers weighing in alongside them. Confirmed editions ran in 2022 and 2023, and the 2022 ballot carried a submission deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 30. The station followed with a Year In Review broadcast on Tuesday, January 31 from 7 to 11 p.m., playing the winning album in its entirety at 10 p.m. The ballot sits on kvsc.org, the station's own site, and the station describes the exercise as a yearly vote by staff and listeners on their top 20 album picks.
White Bear Press runs the Holiday Lights Contest on Second Street, a photo voting ballot open to supporters in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The confirmed window ran from November 18, 2025 to January 5, 2026 and is now closed. Editions are also confirmed for 2023 and 2024, which makes this a recurring holiday season programme rather than a one-off.
Leighton, the St. Cloud, Minnesota radio and marketing group, runs Best of Local High School Sports at leighton-stcloud.secondstreetapp.com. Six confirmed editions back this prep-sports ballot, 2020 through 2025, with the most recent window running September 22 through November 1, 2025, now closed. Unlike Minnesota's other best-of business polls, this one names only local high school athletics as its subject. St. Cloud's own listing keeps the category breakdown and any daily-vote rule unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Light Up Princeton Residential Light Contest is a holiday decoration ballot run by the Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism in Princeton, Minnesota. It sits on the chamber's own website. Confirmed page text says participants are added until Dec. 5th and that residential registration closes Oct. 8th. Vote totals, category detail and eligibility rules are not printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Minnesota Bride's statewide Best of Awards runs online open voting for wedding vendors, bridal boutiques, florists, DJs, photographers, and venues, before finalists move to a gala. The 2026 vote closed February 24, the 2025 gala was held July 22 at the Fillmore Minneapolis, and winners appear in the Fall/Winter issue.
Minnesota Monthly's annual statewide readers' choice program, branded around "local legends and community favorites," with public voting at minnesotamonthly.com/win/readers-picks across three groups: restaurants, shops, and experiences. Minnesota Monthly confirmed a full 2025 winners slate, distinct from the Star Tribune's separate Minnesota's Best ballot.
Star Tribune's annual statewide readers-choice business awards for Minnesota, with nominations, a finalist ballot, and public voting across 350+ categories.
Most Minnesota public votes on this site are broad readers-choice ballots covering dozens of local businesses. This one is narrower and lighter. MnDOT's Name a Snow Plow Contest lets supporters pick a favorite name from a short finalist list on mix108.com, the home of KBMX radio. The ballot page held voting open until Friday, February 26th at 5 PM in the cycle it covers, and editions have run since 2021.
KWWK, a Minnesota country radio station, runs the Now For Your Favorite Mom And Me Photo vote on its own site at quickcountry.com. Readers submit photos of themselves with their moms, finalists are posted, and the picture with the most votes wins. The ballot text sets a closing deadline of Thursday, May 18 at 4 PM. Confirmed editions run across 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
KROC-FM, a commercial radio station serving Rochester, Minnesota, runs a public vote asking listeners which high school marching band in southeast Minnesota is best. The ballot is published on kroc.com, KROC-FM's home for the contest. A nomination week precedes voting, and the 2018 page shows a September window that closed Friday, September 7 and was extended through Sunday, September 9. The vote has run in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Rochester · KROC-FM Southeast Minnesota Marching Band Vote
The Southeast Minnesota Marching Band Vote is KROC-FM's annual online fan poll crowning a favorite high school marching band across the Rochester, Minnesota radio market, at kroc.com. The station runs a nomination week followed by a public vote each year. An archived edition of this contest's page shows voting originally set to close on a Friday before an organizer-announced extension through the following Sunday. Exact 2026 dates, a category list, and a per-voter cap remain unpublished as of September 2026; confirm all three on the live page.
The St. Cloud Times runs its athlete of the week as a public vote for high school sports in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Ballots sit on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, and the newest confirmed one covered Dec. 28, 2025 through Jan. 3, 2026 before closing. Seasons are confirmed for 2024 and 2025. No category roster or per-supporter limit has been published, so check the live ballot each cycle.
St. Cloud Times' Central Minnesota readers' choice vote, run through the Gannett-owned paper's own site at stcloudtimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice instead of a separate contest domain. No fixed category list, voting window, or vote cap is published here, and the live page is the only confirmed source each cycle.
Minnesota voters choose names for the state's snowplows in the Top Stories Mndot Snowplow Naming Contest, a public-vote ballot published by WDIO-DT on wdio.com. Voting in the 2024-25 cycle ran from January 28 through noon on Friday, February 7. Each person could vote once and select up to eight of the finalist names across eight MnDOT districts. Name submissions had closed earlier, through noon on Friday, December 20.
Twin Cities Business magazine's annual Best of Business awards, voted online at tcbmag.com/votebestbiz across B2B categories serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, with Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers recognizing 100+ winners and results revealed in person each June at Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis.
Housing First Minnesota runs the Twin Cities Parade of Homes, the largest Parade of Homes in the US, twice yearly each spring and fall. The 2025 edition, the 77th annual run, featured 364 homes. A People's Choice vote runs alongside the juried Reggie Awards; Robert Thomas Homes ranked a top-25 builder for 12 straight cycles.
White Bear Lake, Minnesota's White Bear Press Holiday Lights Contest runs on Second Street at whitebearpress.secondstreetapp.com. Two confirmed editions are logged, 2023 and 2024, and the most recently recorded window opened November 18 and closed January 5. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Healing Hearts Rescue 2026 Dog Calendar Contest is a Minnesota public-vote photo contest hosted by GoGo Photo Contest for Healing Hearts Rescue. The confirmed voting period was in 2025, beginning March 8 and ending April 13. The program has confirmed editions in 2025 and 2026. Category details and voting limits confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Minnesota supporters vote for Now For The Cutest You Plus Me Equals We Fest Couple on KWWK's own site. The program asks the public to help decide which cute couple should go to We Fest. The page states that the couple with the most votes by midnight on Jan. 1 gets the tickets.
The KLZZ flavor contest is a public food vote for Minnesota, run on the station's website at 1037theloon.com. Voting stays open through the 15th of April, and the page allows one vote per favorite each day. Category count and per-person frequency beyond that are unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Tastiest Cheeseburger in Central Minnesota is Mix 94.9's (KMXK) annual single-dish food vote at mix949.com. Five separate editions are confirmed, 2021 through 2025, every one tied to September. Beyond that, the page names no category list and no daily vote cap; as always, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
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