68 contests with public online voting in Missouri — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
The KCTV5 (CBS, Nexstar) weekly fan vote for the Kansas City metro's Hy-Vee Team of the Week, a team-based poll, not an individual-athlete ballot, covering high school programs on both the Missouri and Kansas sides of the metro. KCTV5 runs the embedded poll on its high school sports pages during the school sports calendar, and any visitor can vote for the school program they want to see recognized.
The KSHB 41 (NBC, Scripps) weekly fan vote for the Kansas City metro's Hy-Vee Athlete of the Week, an individual-athlete ballot covering high school sports across the Missouri and Kansas sides of the metro. KSHB publishes and hosts the poll on its own sports pages, and the vote is a separate program from the team-based Hy-Vee poll a rival Kansas City station runs under the same sponsor name.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Two Missouri baseball honors share a name but not a process: a statewide High School on SI fan vote at si.com/high-school/missouri/baseball, decided by public voting, and Gatorade's committee-selected Missouri Baseball Player of the Year, awarded in 2025 to a Jefferson City High School player with no public ballot involved.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Season-ending honor from High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, naming Missouri's top prep football player after the MSHSAA season closes. Selection blends editorial review of full-season and playoff performance with reader/fan influence, not a stand-alone public vote. The 2025 MVP came from Platte County High School's program.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Season-ending defensive honor from High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, naming Missouri's top prep defender once the MSHSAA postseason concludes. Selection blends editorial review of full-season and playoff defensive performance with reader input, not a stand-alone public vote. The 2025 honor went to a Blue Springs South High School defender.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Weekly fall fan-vote poll from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, running the roughly ten-week MSHSAA football season from September through November. Nominees come from MSHSAA member programs statewide, voting is free with no account required, and the exact vote cap and weekly close time are posted inside each poll article.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Summer honor from High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, naming a preseason All-Missouri football team across every MSHSAA classification before a single regular-season game is played. Selection blends editorial projection with reader/fan input during a summer voting window, distinct from the season's weekly and season-ending honors.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri, covering girls basketball across all MSHSAA Classes 1-6. Missouri's 2025-26 season-end reveal named that year's Player of the Year alongside statewide honors. Free to vote, no account needed; the exact voting window is confirmed each cycle on the live article.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
High School on SI's Missouri postseason girls basketball awards article, published at si.com/high-school/missouri once the MSHSAA tournament series concludes, pairs a fan vote with the season's honors slate across Classes 1-6. Free to vote, no account needed; the exact window and cap are confirmed on the live article each postseason.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Statewide Missouri fan-vote recognition at si.com, run weekly by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive). Covers all MSHSAA member schools from Class 1 through Class 6. One vote per six hours per person; automated voting prohibited; polls close Sunday 11:59 p.m. CT and the winner is announced the following week.
The High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Missouri prep baseball performance of the week. Twenty nominees each week, unlimited voting, no account required — and a close day that shifts between Sunday and Monday 11:59 p.m. Central depending on the week.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual mid-season boys basketball fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri, open statewide across all MSHSAA Classes 1–6. Ballot published each January; free to vote with no account needed; winner decided by raw fan-vote total.
The Sports Illustrated High School statewide fan vote for the best Missouri prep football performance of the week. SI editors nominate 14–31 players from all six MSHSAA classes plus 8-man; anyone can vote with no account or cap, but the poll closes Sunday or Monday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — and that variability is the first thing every voter needs to check.
Statewide Missouri · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual mid-season boys basketball fan vote hosted by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri, covering all MSHSAA member schools statewide. Open for approximately one week mid-January; no account required; voting window announced in the article each season.
Statewide Missouri · SI/SBLive (High School on SI)
A single preseason fan vote from SI/SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri, asking which softball player returns as Missouri's top player for the 2025 fall season. Missouri schedules softball in autumn, not spring, a quirk shared with football and volleyball rather than the state's spring baseball calendar.
Springfield · Springfield News-Leader
The Springfield News-Leader's weekly fan vote covers all MSHSAA sports, year-round, for metro southwest Missouri schools. Reader email nominations feed the ballot; anyone can vote unlimited times — but the poll closes Friday at 10 a.m., not Sunday night like SI's Missouri polls.
KQTV, the St. Joseph, Missouri television station viewers know as KQ2, runs the Play of the Week as a weekly video vote on the Second Street platform. Six seasons are confirmed, 2020 through 2025, and the most recent weekly window ran October 28 through October 31, 2025. The 2025 ballot sits at kq2.secondstreetapp.com under the 2025 Play of the Week title. Category details and any per-supporter limit go unstated by the station, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Joplin Globe invites its Joplin, Missouri readership to crown local favorites through this Second Street ballot. The 2026 cycle accepted votes from March 16 until June 20, 2026 and has since closed. Five straight springs, 2022 through 2026, have carried an edition, so this is a fixture in the newspaper's promotion calendar rather than a newcomer.
The 2026 Springfield Community's Choice Awards is a best-of public ballot for Springfield, Missouri, run by the Springfield News-Leader on Second Street. Voting ran July 6 through July 21, 2026, after a nomination round in May. Confirmed editions run from 2023 through 2026. The category roster and the voting-round frequency rules are not printed in advance, so the live ballot form is the place to check them.
St. Louis · St. Louis Magazine
St. Louis Magazine's annual A-List Readers' Choice Awards, a write-in nomination round followed by a public finalist vote across roughly 150 categories, with results printed in the September issue.
Best Dressed is 417 Magazine's fashion honors program for southwest Missouri. Supporters nominate people they know on the magazine's own nominations page at 417mag.com, and winners walk the runway at Fashionation before being featured in the March magazine. Confirmed editions run in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and a hall of fame feature traces classes back to 2011.
417 Magazine's annual Best of 417 readers-choice program serves Springfield, Missouri and the surrounding 417-land region. Nominees are compiled first, then the public votes at 417mag.com/best-of-417/readers-choice/, and editors' own input factors into the final result alongside that reader tally rather than deciding it as a pure vote count.
Kansas City Magazine's annual Best of KC readers-choice ballot, a nominate-then-vote survey across 300+ categories with 200,000+ submissions and votes recorded in 2026, no pay-to-play.
A Springfield-area readers-choice ballot run at shopswmo.com, separate from 417 Magazine's own contest, covering more than 190 categories across Southwest Missouri businesses and services.
Best of St Joe 2025 is the St. Joseph readers' poll run by KQTV, the channel 2 station in St. Joseph, Missouri. Voting took place on a Second Street ballot from February 14 to April 21, 2025 and is now closed. The program has confirmed editions in every year from 2017 through 2025, and the 2026 round is the next one to watch for.
KSIS, a Sedalia, Missouri radio station, invites listeners to name their favorite restaurant to order pizza from in a public vote published at ksisradio.com. Editions ran in 2019 and again from 2022 through 2025. The voting window falls in February, and the ballot page asks one simple question about pizza in Sedalia. The exact open and close days and any voting rules are not printed alongside the ballot, so a supporter checks the live page.
Confirmed editions of Best Places to Work in Springfield, Missouri ran in 2024 and 2026, and 2027 is the year the program's pattern points toward next. Biz 417, the Springfield, Missouri publisher of 417 Magazine, hosts the public ballot itself on biz417.com, with the 2026 listing window running September 1 through October 31 in a nominations phase.
Columbia · Columbia Missourian
Columbia Missourian's annual Reader's Choice Awards, a business-by-category readers' poll run by the University of Missouri's teaching newspaper at columbiamissourian.com, confirmed active for the 2025 cycle across Columbia and Boone County.
Columbia MO CommunityVotes runs on the syndicated CommunityVotes platform at communityvotes.com, an active 2025 ballot for Columbia, Missouri businesses in a Mizzou university market. It is a separate operation from the Columbia Missourian's own newspaper readers'-choice ballot, with its own franchise-style voting mechanics.
Independence's CommunityVotes ballot has a notable gap: confirmed editions run in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2026. Archived pages also show 2025, though that year alone isn't confirmed. The ballot itself is hosted at independence.communityvotes.com for Independence, Missouri. The 2026 nomination window is confirmed open May 15 through September 13, though what happens past that point is thinner: this page finds no fixed category list and no stated vote cap, so the live ballot each cycle is the only real source for both.
CommunityVotes' own business readers-choice ballot for Kansas City, Missouri, at kansascity.communityvotes.com. The 2026 nomination period is confirmed open from June 2 to September 27, with a named featured supporter already listed on the live site. It runs separately from Kansas City Magazine's Best of KC and the CommunityVotes network's own St. Joseph and Columbia, Missouri markets.
Most of Missouri's readers'-choice ballots answer to a local magazine. CommunityVotes Lee's Summit doesn't; it runs on the same national CommunityVotes network as Columbia's own edition, at leessummit.communityvotes.com. Archived pages confirm four straight editions, 2023 through 2026. The 2026 nomination window runs May 15 through September 13. Past that window, Lee's Summit's page doesn't publish a category list, and it doesn't publish a vote cap at all. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
O'Fallon, Missouri hosts its own page inside the CommunityVotes network, organized through a local partner rather than a newspaper or magazine staff, at ofallon.communityvotes.com. The confirmed public history behind that page covers two rounds so far, an earlier one in 2023 and the current round labeled for 2026, open for nominations May 15 through September 13. The page itself frames the ballot as open to "the community," and what happens once that window closes, from a category roster to a per-voter limit, is left for O'Fallon's own page to answer; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Springfield · CommunityVotes Springfield
Four confirmed editions, 2022 through 2026 with one quiet year in between, back CommunityVotes Springfield, the CommunityVotes network's business poll for Springfield, Missouri. The 2026 window at springfieldmo.communityvotes.com runs May 15 through September 13. Whether categories exist or a vote cap applies isn't answered anywhere published, so treat Springfield's live ballot as the only place to confirm either one each cycle.
Fans Choice 2025 is KQTV's public-vote ballot for the St. Joseph, Missouri market, hosted on Second Street at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. The 2025 edition ran from August 29 through November 14, 2025, and a 2024 edition at the same address makes this a two-year program. Unlike the metro best-of ballots elsewhere in the state, this one is a nomination-and-voting format run by a single television station.
St. Louis · Feast Magazine
Feast Magazine's annual FEAST 50, published as "Our Readers' 50 Food Faves," names 50 St. Louis area food and drink honorees each year by blending reader input with the magazine's current editorial picks, a different mechanism from the region's other two best-of ballots.
Where most Missouri ballots spread dozens of categories across local businesses, this one asks a single music question: which Alan Jackson hit song is the favorite of all time. KXKX, a country radio station, runs the vote in-house on kxkx.com, and the ballot has appeared every cycle from 2022 through 2026. The voting window falls in May. The station leaves the precise start and finish days and any rules on repeat submissions off the page, so check the live poll before planning a push.
KXKX, a country radio station serving Missouri, runs the Best Craig Morgan Song of All Time Poll on its own website. The ballot asks supporters to pick their favorite Craig Morgan song and ties the vote to the artist's appearance at Whiteman Air Force Base. The station publishes no vote cap, no eligibility text and no day-level dates beyond its documented June cycle, which ran from June 1 to June 30, 2018, with further editions confirmed through 2026.
KXKX, a Missouri radio station, invites listeners to vote for the best Lonestar song in a public poll hosted on its own website. Six editions are confirmed, from 2018 and again each year from 2022 through 2026, all with a June voting window. The station does not print the exact opening or closing day in advance.
KXKX, a Missouri radio station, runs the Sedalia Person of the Year poll on its own website. The ballot asks listeners to choose the person or group with the most influence on the Sedalia area, a format the station says it borrowed from TIME Magazine's Person of the Year issue. Confirmed editions run in 2013, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026, with the 2013 vote published in December of that year.
KXKX, a Missouri radio station, runs the For Your Favorite Girl Scout Cookie on National Girl Scouts Day Poll on its own website at kxkx.com. The ballot asks listeners a single cookie question and opens for public voting each March. Confirmed editions run from 2019 through 2026, and the earliest confirmed ballot was published on March 12, 2019. The station prints no day-level dates, no category roster and no voting rules on the page, so the live ballot is the only authority for those details.
KTGR, the Columbia, Missouri sports station behind ESPN 100.5 FM and 1580 AM, runs the In The Big Show Best Stadium Song Bracket on its own website each March. The ballot pits 32 stadium songs against each other in head-to-head matchups, with first round voting beginning Tuesday, March 14 and the bracket running throughout the rest of March. Confirmed editions cover 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the ballot page prints no per-supporter voting cap and no category roster.
Favorites of the Four States has run longer than most ballots like it, five confirmed rounds between 2022 and 2026, hosted by the Joplin Globe at joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com. The most recent, in 2026, ran March 16 through June 20. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Kansas City · Kansas City Magazine
Kansas City Magazine's Best of KC readers-choice program at kansascitymag.com, run separately from The Pitch's own Best of KC ballot. The magazine published for years as 435 Magazine before its current rebrand. Voting runs through a third-party-administered platform under a no-pay-to-play policy; confirm categories and dates on the live site.
KCHBA's KC Parade of Homes runs twice a year, a Spring and a Fall home tour, each carrying two named awards, Pick of the Parade and Distinctive Plan & Design. The 2025 Spring cycle's results were announced April 30, 2025. Voting details live at kc.paradeofhomes.io, backed by KCHBA's main site, kchba.org.
St. Joseph · KQTV
St. Joseph, Missouri's Best of St. Joe readers' poll runs through KQTV's Second Street ballot at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. Nine straight editions are confirmed between 2017 and 2025; the latest one opened February 14 and closed April 21, 2025. No category list or vote cap shows up on that page; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle before nominations open again.
Unlike Missouri's magazine-run best-of polls, KQTV's Fans Choice runs as a nomination-and-voting ballot through Second Street at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. The 2025 edition opened August 29 and closed November 14, 2025, the program's second confirmed year after 2024's cycle at the same address. Neither a rundown of ballot categories nor a supporter voting limit shows up past that closed window; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle once the next Fans Choice cycle opens.
KQTV Play of the Week is a Missouri television station's weekly video vote for a standout play, hosted on the Second Street platform at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. This is not a single annual ballot: archived pages span six seasons, 2020 through 2025, built from dozens of separate weekly cycles, with one archived week numbered as high as Week 17. The most recently confirmed weekly window, in the 2025 season, ran October 28 through October 31. Which sport the plays come from, any category breakdown, and a vote-cap rule are not published; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.
Missouri Girls TF posts a weekly fan ballot for girls track and field across the state through the spring season. Voting runs on Crowdsignal via poll.fm. Ballots on file include the May 11-16 poll and an April 7 through April 12, 2025 window, and the seasons on file are 2025 and 2026. This page covers the organizer, the ballot mechanics, and the rules the organizer leaves unstated.
Missouri Magazine's statewide readers-choice ballot, roughly 80 categories, open to businesses anywhere in Missouri rather than one metro area, with online public voting each June.
Missouri's News-Press NOW hosts a Readers' Choice ballot on the Second Street platform, reachable at newspressnow.secondstreetapp.com. Rather than splitting nominations from a later vote, the listing folds both into a single round; the stretch that closed on February 26, 2026 after opening January 8 marks the organization's second confirmed year, following 2025. Nothing published names a host city, breaks the ballot into categories, or says how often a single supporter may cast a vote; confirm each of those on the live ballot each cycle.
The People’s Choice Wine and Spirits Competition is a public tasting ballot attached to the Wine and Food Holiday Festival in Missouri. It runs on the festival's own website rather than a contest platform, inviting visitors to rate select wines and spirits. The 2026 voting window runs through October, winners are announced when the festival closes, and only the 2026 edition is confirmed so far.
Missouri track and field fans back a boys athlete of the week every week through Crowdsignal poll 17013172, run under the Missouri Boys TF banner. Editions exist for 2025 and 2026. One round ran Monday, May 11 through Friday, May 16 and ended under the headline Poll Closed. The weekly window opens 7:00am Monday and shuts 5:00pm Friday. Categories and any vote cap go unstated, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Missouri's POLL: Missouri Girls TF Athlete of the Week lets supporters pick a girls track and field athlete of the week, run under the organizer Missouri Girls TF on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Seasons are confirmed for 2025 and 2026, and voting falls in May; one listed ballot ran May 11-16 and has closed. The organizer publishes no open or close dates for the current week and no per-supporter rule, so read the live ballot before planning support.
RC 2026 is a public ballot run by News-Press NOW, a Missouri news organization, and hosted on the Second Street balloting platform. The 2026 cycle opened on January 8 and closed on February 26, 2026. A 2025 edition is also confirmed, so the program has run in at least two years. The ballot's category list and any per-supporter rules are not published alongside the confirmed details; supporters should check the live ballot for what applies now.
St. Louis · Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times' annual Best of St. Louis readers' poll at vote.riverfronttimes.com, spanning arts and entertainment, restaurants, services, and sports, still running online after the paper's 2024 sale ended its print edition.
The Southeast Missourian's annual People's Choice Awards, a southeast Missouri readers'-choice program run by the Cape Girardeau daily at semissourian.com, with 2025 results announced September 27, 2025. The exact category list and vote structure aren't published anywhere checked for this guide, so confirm them on semissourian.com each cycle.
Springfield, Missouri's Community's Choice Awards is organized by the Springfield News-Leader on news-leader.gannettcontests.com. Four editions are now confirmed, 2023 through 2026, and the 2026 ballot's window ran July 6 through July 21 before closing. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch invites readers to celebrate the Gateway Arch National Park by voting for a favorite photo of the monument. The ballot runs on Second Street and asks supporters to return once a day until Wednesday, June 13, with winning photos printed in a special Post-Dispatch section on Sunday, July 1. Editions have appeared across 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025, and the paper traces the photo competition back to 2015. The exact open date, entry period and prize detail for the current cycle are not published in advance.
St. Joseph · CommunityVotes
St. Joseph CommunityVotes is the Northwest Missouri edition of the shared CommunityVotes readers'-choice platform, running an active 2025 online ballot at stjoseph.communityvotes.com. It's a separate program from Missouri's magazine-run best-of polls in St. Louis and Kansas City, built on the same town-by-town platform Columbia, Missouri, also uses.
St. Louis · St. Louis Magazine
St. Louis Magazine's A-List Readers' Choice Awards, run at stlmag.com/alist, draws roughly 130,000 category nominations and about 360,000 votes each year, capped at one vote per category per day, with 2025 results confirming Shack Breakfast as the winner of Best Breakfast among dozens of local categories.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch readers-choice business awards. 140+ categories, a top-5 finalist ballot, and one vote per category per day.
Washington · The Missourian
The Missourian's annual Readers' Choice Awards for Washington and Franklin County, Missouri, voted at missourian.com, with a confirmed Best Nurse category alongside broader local-business categories for the 2025 cycle. Not the Columbia Missourian or Southeast Missourian program, both separate operations covered elsewhere on this site.
Kansas City · The Pitch KC
The Pitch KC's annual Best of KC readers-choice program, run through a nomination round followed by public voting at vote.thepitchkc.com, a subdomain separate from the magazine's main site. The 2025 cycle logged 2,421 nominations and 407,793 votes, and the 2026 nomination round is open now.
The VYPE HOU Private School Football Defensive Player of the Year Fan Poll lets supporters choose a standout defensive performer from Missouri private school football. VYPE HOU Private runs the ballot on the poll.fm service from Crowdsignal, and confirmed editions cover 2023, 2024 and 2026, with voting falling across December and January each cycle.
Missouri football supporters follow the VYPE HOU Private School Offensive Player of the Year Fan Poll, the fan ballot VYPE publishes for private school football at poll.fm. Confirmed editions run in 2023 and 2026, and each voting window falls in January. The current ballot has closed, and the organizer has never printed its exact open and close dates. This page collects what is known about the publisher, the platform, the results and the voting mechanic, and points readers to the live ballot for anything the organizer leaves unstated between cycles.
The 2025 Cutest Pet Contest is a public pet photo vote run by the Joplin Globe newspaper in Joplin, Missouri, hosted on Second Street at joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com. Its confirmed ballot ran June 26 through July 27, 2025, following a 2024 edition on the same platform. Pet owners across the Joplin market enter photos and rally community votes each summer.
Joplin · Joplin Globe
Unlike Missouri's business-focused readers'-choice polls, the Joplin Globe's Cutest Pet Contest is a photo vote for pets, run through Second Street at joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com and covering Joplin, Missouri. Two rounds are on the confirmed page, 2024 and 2025, with the 2025 vote running June 26 through July 27, 2025, closed once that window ended. Neither a species breakdown for dogs, cats and other pets nor a per-voter limit shows up in what's published, so anyone wanting either detail should watch joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com directly once a new round is announced; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
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