Montana Online Voting Contests

KBZK Bozeman Athlete of the Week

The KBZK (CBS affiliate, Bozeman) community Athlete of the Week feature for Gallatin Valley high school sports, a nomination-driven page published on KBZK's community section during the school-year season, run on the same MontanaSports-network format as sister station KTVQ in Billings.

KTVQ Billings Athlete of the Week

The KTVQ (Q2, Billings' CBS affiliate) community Athlete of the Week program for Yellowstone County high school sports, a nomination-driven feature published on KTVQ's community page during the school-year season, with the same program structure as sister MontanaSports-network station KBZK in Bozeman.

Missoulian Athlete of the Week

Missoula and western Montana · Missoulian (Lee Enterprises)

Missoulian.com's prep sports section runs a free weekly Athlete of the Week fan vote for western Montana high schools, sponsored by Republic Services. Unlike Montana's other prep sports polls, the vote closes at a fixed time every week: 5 p.m. Tuesday, not a day that shifts with the sports calendar.

Montana High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Montana · NBC Montana (KECI/KCFW/KTVM/KDBZ — Gray Television)

NBC Montana (KECI/KCFW/KTVM/KDBZ) runs a free weekly fan vote at nbcmontana.com covering every MHSA sport from Class AA through Class C — statewide scope, a per-device cap that resets on a set interval, and a close time that shifts week to week depending on the MHSA schedule.

Montana High School Player of the Year

Statewide Montana · SI / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

SI's High School on SI network runs an annual, end-of-season Montana High School Player of the Year public vote at si.com/high-school/montana, drawing nominees from every MHSA classification across all three sports seasons. No account is needed to vote; the exact window and any vote limit are posted on the live poll page each cycle.

Best Country Duo Group Performance Grammy Awards Predictions Poll

KXLB, a Montana country radio station, runs the Best Country Duo Group Performance Grammy Awards Predictions Poll on its own xlcountry.com site. It is a readers' poll tied to the Grammy category, and confirmed editions stretch from 2017 through 2026. The 2017 ballot let supporters vote as often as once an hour until 11:59PM ET on Feb. 9, with results tabulated for the station's winners predictions. This season's window dates have not been printed; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Billings

Billings Gazette's annual Best of Billings readers-choice awards, run on Lee Enterprises' SecondStreet ballot at billingsgazette.secondstreetapp.com, with the contest confirmed live at billingsgazette.com/contests/best-of-billings/ for 2025, a separate program from Community Votes Billings.

Best of Bozeman (The BoZone)

Bozeman · The BoZone

The BoZone's annual Best of Bozeman readers-choice poll runs at bozone.com alongside the paper's regular local events and arts coverage. Online voting opens July 1 and closes August 15 each year, and results are kept fully separate from Bozeman Magazine's own, competing Bozeman's Choice awards program.

Best of Butte & Beyond

The Montana Standard's annual readers-choice awards for Butte-area businesses, run on Lee Enterprises' SecondStreet platform, readers nominate first, then a public online vote on the finalist ballot decides winners.

Best of Helena

The Helena Independent Record's (Lee Enterprises) readers-choice awards for Helena, Montana businesses, with a confirmed 2024 cycle on helenair.com and 2025-2026 assumed to continue the same annual pattern Lee runs at its Billings, Missoula, and Butte papers.

Best of Missoula

Missoulian's (Lee Enterprises) annual Best of Missoula readers-choice awards, run at missoulian.com. A Facebook post confirmed 2025 nominations were open, and results tie to the paper's Sunday edition. It's a separate program from Community Votes Missoula. Exact dates, categories, and the voting platform aren't published; confirm them on the live site each cycle.

Best of Montana

Best of Montana is a statewide readers' choice ballot run by Distinctly Montana, the magazine behind the page at distinctlymontana.com/bom2026. The 2026 cycle split into a nomination phase from March 15 through April 20 and a voting phase from June 15 through July 20, and voting closed on July 20, 2026. Restaurants, businesses, events, people and places across Montana compete, and supporters who vote can enter a draw for $500 cash. Editions have run since 2022.

Best of the Flathead

The Daily Inter Lake's annual readers-choice awards for the Flathead Valley, spanning Kalispell, Whitefish, and the surrounding valley communities, with nominations followed by public online voting across dozens of categories on the dailyinterlake.secondstreetapp.com platform.

Best of Whitefish

Whitefish · Whitefish Pilot (Hagadone News Network)

Annual Whitefish Pilot readers-choice awards for Whitefish, Montana businesses, with nominations, a finalist ballot, and public online voting through the SecondStreet platform.

Bozeman's Choice

Bozeman Magazine's annual Bozeman's Choice readers-choice awards for Bozeman, Montana businesses, run at bozemanmagazine.com, with the 2026 cycle confirmed through the magazine's "Let's Meet At the Top: Bozeman's Choice 2026" article published October 1, 2025 and voting open that same month, a separate ballot from Metroland Media's Community Votes Bozeman.

Community Votes Billings

Metroland Media's CommunityVotes program for Billings, Montana, hosted at billings.communityvotes.com, where businesses are nominated first and the public votes for finalists afterward; an Instagram announcement confirms the 2026 cycle is live, with categories and dates set on the current ballot.

Community Votes Bozeman

Metroland Media's annual CommunityVotes readers-choice program for Bozeman, Montana, run at bozeman.communityvotes.com, where nominees typically move through a nominate-then-vote ballot; the 2025 cycle is confirmed active, though exact categories, the nomination window, and any vote cap are not yet published for this specific market.

Community Votes Great Falls

Metroland Media's CommunityVotes readers-choice program for Great Falls, Montana, hosted at greatfalls.communityvotes.com. The 2025 cycle is confirmed active and the program runs annually; exact categories, the vote window, and any cap should be confirmed on the current ballot before a business builds a campaign around it.

Community Votes Missoula

Metroland Media's CommunityVotes readers-choice program for Missoula, Montana, hosted at missoula.communityvotes.com. The 2026 cycle's nomination window is confirmed as running February 16 through June 7, a longer, more specifically published window than Montana's other CommunityVotes and readers-choice sibling programs currently disclose on their own sites.

For Dave Ally As Bozemans Best Djs

Bozeman, Montana country listeners are being asked by KXLB to back its duo Dave & Ally for Best Local Radio DJs in the Media & Info Category of the Bozeman Choice Awards, the annual programme from Bozeman Magazine. Support is cast through a voting button on the station's own page, and the printed close date for the current cycle is Oct. 31. The opening date and the voting rules are not published on that page.

For Dave Ally In The Bozeman Choice Awards 2

KXLB, the country station behind xlcountry.com, asks its Bozeman listeners to vote for Dave and Ally in the Bozeman Choice Awards before November 7th. The vote form sits directly on xlcountry.com and the program has appeared in edition years from 2020 through 2026. Exact window dates and per-supporter limits go unstated outside the ballot itself.

For Paddleheads Ticket Design

KYSS-FM, a country radio station in Montana, lets listeners choose a new ticket design for the Missoula PaddleHeads baseball club. The ballot lives at kyssfm.com and has run in five straight springs, 2022 through 2026, each tied to May as the baseball season gets underway. The precise open and close days go unannounced until the ballot itself appears.

For The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Peoples Choice Award

KRTV, a television station serving Montana, invites the public to choose a favorite among finalist images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. The confirmed 2024 voting window ran through Jan. 31, 2024, with editions also confirmed for 2023. Voting happens on the station's own website, and the winner is named alongside honorable mentions after the close.

For Your Favorite Hardest Working Stiff In Billings Photo

KCTR-FM, the Billings country station behind catcountry1029.com, runs a photo vote called For Your Favorite Hardest Working Stiff In Billings Photo. Supporters pick a favorite photo submitted to the station's own site. Editions are confirmed for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with the page's printed close date falling on August 31st, 2013.

For Your Favorite Montana Fair Jump On It Photo Submission

KCTR-FM, a Montana country radio station, runs the For Your Favorite Montana Fair Jump On It Photo Submission on its own site at catcountry1029.com. Listeners submit fair photographs, then the public votes for a favorite. Confirmed runs landed in 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the voting phase has fallen between December and February. The station has not printed the dates of the cycle now underway.

Gallatin's Greatest

Gallatin's Greatest is the Bozeman Daily Chronicle's readers-choice awards program for Gallatin County, spanning more than 140 categories with public voting hosted on the Your Choice Awards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/gallatin, a separate ballot from Bozeman Magazine's Bozeman's Choice and CommunityVotes Bozeman.

Great Falls Tribune Readers' Choice

Gannett's USA TODAY Network annual readers-choice program for Great Falls, Montana, run at greatfallstribune.com. The Tribune's network confirms the same business-plus-athlete-poll pattern at Sioux Falls's Argus Leader; exact categories, dates, and any cap should be confirmed on the live site each cycle.

In The Bob Ward And Sons Scope It Mount It Shoot It Contest Sponsored

KYSS-FM, a Montana radio station, runs the Bob Ward and Sons' Scope It, Mount It, Shoot It Contest as a sponsored public vote on its own website. Supporters vote for their favorite photo, and the station states that everyone may vote as often as they wish. The current voting window closes at 11:59 p.m. on November 6. Editions have appeared in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026.

MileSplit Montana Girls Performer of the Week

MileSplit, the national high school running publication, puts Montana girls track and field performances to a public vote on Crowdsignal each week of the season. The 2026 ballot ran June 15 to 21 and is now closed, and confirmed editions go back to 2024. Unlike the readers-choice contests run by Montana newspapers, this ballot names individual performers rather than businesses. Exact window dates and any vote rules are not published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Missoula Parade of Homes People's Choice Award

The Missoula Building Industry Association's People's Choice Award, voted online after touring the homes built for the annual September Parade of Homes — a public ballot, not a jury pick, that only counts votes from people who walked through the houses first.

2025 MCAAC Pet Calendar Photo Contest

The Maclean-Cameron Animal Adoption Center in Great Falls, Montana runs a pet calendar photo contest on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. Supporters enter a cat or dog, and votes are cast as dollar donations through the ballot at gogophotocontest.com/mcaacpetcontest. The 2025 window ran through October, closing at 8:00 PM Mountain Time on Friday, October 31, 2025. Twelve winners received the calendar cover or a month feature in the 2026 MCAAC Pet Calendar. Confirmed editions sit in 2025 and 2026.

Best Dog (bozemanskissfm)

Best Dog is a public-vote pet contest run on KISN's own site at bozemanskissfm.com, serving Bozeman, Montana. Confirmed editions ran in 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the voting phase has fallen in September. Supporters visit the station's ballot page, review the dog entries and cast votes for a favorite. KISN has not printed a category roster, a vote ceiling or fixed window dates for the current cycle; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

KMMS Best Dog

KMMS Best Dog is a September dog-photo vote run directly by KMMS-AM at kmmsam.com, the Bozeman, Montana station behind it. Archived pages confirm the vote running across ten separate years, 2017 through 2026. No day-level dates, category list, or vote cap are published for the current cycle; confirm each on the live ballot.