Best Of Prom: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who runs Best Of Prom and where the ballot lives

Best Of Prom is a public-vote ballot in the best-of vertical that KMXK runs for its St. Cloud, Minnesota listening area. KMXK is a commercial radio station programming a hot adult contemporary format, and for this program the station uses its own website as the host: the ballot sits at https://mix949.com/best-of-prom-2017-vote/ with no third-party voting platform in front of it. The page title on that ballot reads Best Of Prom 2017 [VOTE], which is how the station labels the edition in its own navigation.

The audience for the ballot is the station's prom-season listenership together with the local businesses the program recognizes. Because the organizer is a radio station, the ballot is promoted through the station's own on-air and web presence rather than through a standalone contest brand. A supporter reaches the vote through the station's address and its own contest links, which keeps the ballot inside a market the station already serves.

That combination of organizer and host matters when you read the page. Anything printed on the ballot is the station's own wording, so a statement such as the closing date is an organizer statement rather than a platform notice.

Every confirmed Best Of Prom edition and window

Ballot pages for Best Of Prom are confirmed in 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which makes the program annual on KMXK's contest calendar. The ballot URL currently listed documents the 2017 edition: the page carries the title Best Of Prom 2017 [VOTE] and a printed close of Friday, April 14.

Station announcements add a further window shape. A KMXK piece published alongside its St. Cloud coverage gives a window that opened September 18th and ran through Friday, October 13th, so the close has not always fallen at the same point on the calendar across the program's confirmed years.

What the organizer leaves off the page is equally specific. The ballot prints no category slate, no wording on how many votes a supporter may cast and no eligibility terms, and KMXK has not posted an open date for the newest cycle; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No announcement for the year after 2026 has been posted either, so the next edition is expected from the station's own channels rather than from a standing schedule.

How to vote for Best Of Prom on mix949.com

KMXK runs this ballot as a straight public vote on the station's mix949.com domain. The 2017 ballot opens with the instruction Vote for the 'Best of Prom 2017' below! and closes with the printed note that voting ends Friday, April 14. A supporter who wants to take part today opens the Best Of Prom page on mix949.com, finds the ballot under that prompt and casts a vote for their favorites.

Because KMXK is both organizer and host, the steps stop at the page itself. There is no separate contest brand to register with and no outside platform standing between the supporter and the ballot. What the page asks for is the vote and nothing more, at least as far as the station's printed wording goes.

The practical reading is to treat the ballot exactly as printed. The page shows the prompt, the vote control beneath it and the deadline line. Anything the page does not spell out, such as repeat voting or eligibility, is not answered by the station's published text.

Best Of Prom beside Minnesota's other best-of ballots

Best Of Prom is not the only best-of ballot in Minnesota on this site. Neighbours include Best of the Midwest, Minnesota's Best, the Best of the Best Brainerd Lakes Area, CommunityVotes Duluth, CommunityVotes Rochester and the Best of the Best (Duluth News Tribune).

What separates the KMXK program from that group is its shape. The neighbours are city readers' polls, community programs or statewide ballots, while Best Of Prom is a prom-season ballot tied to a single radio station's site and its St. Cloud market. The vote lives inside the station's contest calendar rather than under a newspaper masthead or a community brand.

For a supporter that difference matters in two ways. The ballot's address belongs to mix949.com, so the station controls the prompt, the deadline wording and any change to the page. And because the program is seasonal, the window to take part is anchored to prom season in the station's market rather than to a year-round voting calendar.

Strengthening support for a Best Of Prom vote

Support grows the way KMXK has built the ballot: by sending prom-season supporters to the station's page before the printed close. Links that point straight at the mix949.com ballot put a backer beside the vote control under the ballot's own prompt, while links that land on the station's homepage leave the extra step to them.

Businesses named on the ballot tend to push the link through their own prom-season channels, since the program's audience is exactly the crowd those channels already reach. Timing matters too, because the deadline line is the only date the page commits to and the close has moved between cycles.

For a fuller playbook, see our votes guide; the outline of paid vote options sits at buy votes online, and award-style ballots are covered at buy award votes.