New Hampshire Online Voting Contests

New Hampshire High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)

Weekly statewide fan poll hosted at si.com/high-school/new-hampshire by High School on SI (Minute Media / SBLive Sports), open to any fan to vote for the top New Hampshire prep athlete across all NHIAA-sanctioned sports, all four divisions. Voting closes Sunday night.

New Hampshire High School Baseball Player of the Week

NHSportsPage.com's weekly spring fan vote for standout prep baseball performances across New Hampshire — five nominees chosen by editors, public voting hosted on sportngin, closes Thursday at 7 a.m., winner earns a Choose Community shirt and a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift card.

New Hampshire High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)

Annual spring fan vote hosted at si.com/high-school/new-hampshire by High School on SI (SBLive Sports / Minute Media), naming the top NH prep baseball player across all four NHIAA divisions. Voting is free, no registration required, and closes in late May or June.

New Hampshire High School Football Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide fan vote for standout NHIAA football performances. SI editors select up to twelve nominees from across all four NHIAA divisions each week; anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a day earlier than many regional polls in other states.

New Hampshire High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week

NHSportsPage.com's weekly fan vote for NH girls basketball, sponsored by the Community College System of NH (CCSNH) and Adrenaline Fundraising. Five nominees chosen by the editors each week; winners receive a Choose Community shirt plus a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift certificate. The ballot closes every Thursday at 7 a.m.

New Hampshire High School Girls Soccer & Volleyball Player of the Week

The NHSportsPage / CCSNH weekly fan vote covering both girls soccer and volleyball nominees on a single fall-season ballot. Closes Thursday at 7 a.m. — not Sunday, not Friday — and the winner earns a Choose Community shirt plus a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift certificate.

New Hampshire High School Player of the Year

Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)

Annual multi-sport fan vote hosted at si.com/high-school/new-hampshire by High School on SI (SBLive Sports / Minute Media), recognising the top New Hampshire prep athlete at the end of each season. Separate finalist votes run for football, baseball, and other sports statewide.

New Hampshire Miss Basketball

Statewide New Hampshire · New Hampshire Basketball Coaches Organization (NHBCO)

New Hampshire's Miss Basketball honor is decided entirely by NHBCO member coaches using the same scoring format as Mr. Basketball: basketball performance, academics, and sportsmanship. There is no public ballot. NHBCO posts the finalist group and the eventual winner on its own website each year once the winter season concludes.

New Hampshire Mr. Basketball

Statewide New Hampshire · New Hampshire Basketball Coaches Organization (NHBCO); WGAM Radio (Manchester, NH) separately presents its own same-named honor

New Hampshire's NHBCO Mr. Basketball honor is decided entirely by member coaches scoring nominees on basketball (50%), academics (25%), and sportsmanship (25%); there is no public ballot. WGAM Radio separately presents its own same-named honor. This guide explains both formulas and where NH prep hoops fans can actually cast a vote.

New Hampshire SI Athlete of the Week; Fall Season

Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)

Fall-specific guide to the High School on SI weekly fan poll for New Hampshire prep athletes, covering football, soccer, cross country, and volleyball nominees across all four NHIAA divisions. The Sept–Nov 2025 window closes each Sunday, no sign-up needed.

New Hampshire SI Athlete of the Week; Winter Season

Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)

Winter-specific guide to the High School on SI weekly fan poll for New Hampshire prep athletes, drawing nominees from basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, indoor track, and swimming across all four NHIAA divisions. The Dec-Mar window closes each Sunday, no sign-up needed, and the Manchester-Nashua-Concord corridor supplies the deepest field.

NHSportsPage Boys Basketball Player of the Week

NHSportsPage.com's weekly winter fan vote for New Hampshire boys basketball, sponsored by the Community College System of NH and Adrenaline Fundraising, with Buffalo Wild Wings backing the prize. A separate ballot from the site's girls basketball poll and from the SI-hosted statewide athlete vote — same publisher, same sponsors, different sport, different pool of nominees.

NHSportsPage New Hampshire Baseball Player of the Week

The NHSportsPage.com statewide fan vote for New Hampshire high school and community college baseball, sponsored by the Community College System of NH (CCSNH) and Adrenaline Fundraising. A spring-season weekly poll, run on the same sportngin platform and prize structure as NHSportsPage's football and basketball Player of the Week polls, but built for baseball's shorter, weather-compressed season.

NHSportsPage New Hampshire High School Football Player of the Week

The NHSportsPage.com statewide fan vote for New Hampshire high school football, sponsored by the Community College System of NH and Adrenaline Fundraising. Five nominees each week, closes Thursday at 7 a.m. — earlier than almost any other weekly poll in New England — and the winner earns a CCSNH shirt plus a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift card.

Seacoast Athlete of the Week (SeacoastOnline / Foster's Daily Democrat)

Seacoast New Hampshire (Strafford and Rockingham counties) · SeacoastOnline / Foster's Daily Democrat (Gannett)

SeacoastOnline and Foster's Daily Democrat, both Gannett-owned papers covering coastal New Hampshire, run a weekly Athlete of the Week fan vote that names a boys' honoree and a girls' honoree every week. The ballot appears at seacoastonline.com/sports and fosters.com/sports, allows roughly one vote per device per day, and requires no account.

Seacoast Girls Athlete of the Week (SeacoastOnline)

Seacoast New Hampshire (Rockingham and Strafford counties) · SeacoastOnline (Gannett)

SeacoastOnline (Gannett) runs a standalone girls' Athlete of the Week fan vote for New Hampshire's coastal towns, separate from its combined boys-and-girls ballot. Oyster River, Exeter, Spaulding, and Dover supply most nominees. The confirmed January 2026 winner, an Exeter High School nominee, took just over 32% of the vote.

"Who Rescued Who?" 2026 Calendar Photo Contest

Hearts and Tails Animal Alliance invites rescue dog photos into its "Who Rescued Who?" 2026 Calendar Photo Contest, hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. Entries and votes ran through midnight Eastern Time until the November close of the cycle. The dog drawing the most votes wins the calendar cover and a page inside the calendar, and all donations to the alliance through the contest are tax-deductible.

Best of 2024

Hippo Press runs the Best of 2024 program across New Hampshire. Voting happens in February. Confirmed edition years include 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025. This reference page details the ballot structure and organizer rules for supporters seeking accurate information.

Best of Mount Washington Valley

Conway Daily Sun's annual reader vote for Mount Washington Valley, 130 categories spanning ski resorts, restaurants, shops, and lodging across North Conway, Jackson, Bartlett, and Fryeburg.

Best of NH

New Hampshire has at least nine competing readers-choice ballots; Best of NH is the only one that covers all eight regions in a single 200+ category vote.

Best of NH

New Hampshire Magazine's Best of NH readers-choice program has run since 2000 under Yankee Publishing. The 2025 ballot opened January 12, closed March 12, and pulled more than 97,000 votes across confirmed categories like dentist, restaurant, salon, gym, realtor, contractor, martial arts, and photographer.

Best of the Lakes Region

Laconia Daily Sun's annual nominate-then-vote readers-choice awards for the Lakes Region, 194 categories covering every local business type in Laconia, Meredith, Gilford, and Tilton.

Best of the Seacoast

SeacoastOnline's annual New Hampshire readers-choice ballot, run on the Gannett-network YourChoiceAwards.com platform and capped at one vote per day, where completing 25 or more categories enters a supporter into a $500 gift-card drawing ahead of the 2025 winners gala, in what SeacoastOnline calls the state's most competitive local contest by volume.

Biennial Literary Awards

The Biennial Literary Awards, billed in 2025 as the 16th New Hampshire Literary Awards, let readers vote for their favorite books by category on the New Hampshire Writers' Project website. Nominations closed in June 2025, and the public voting period ran from September 8 to October 1, 2025. Confirmed editions exist for 2023, 2024 and 2025.

CommunityVotes Manchester

CommunityVotes Manchester is Metroland's readers-choice business ballot covering New Hampshire's largest city, at manchesternh.communityvotes.com. The 2026 nomination period is confirmed open from August 2 through November 29. No category list or vote cap is published beyond that window; confirm both on the live site.

CommunityVotes Nashua

Nashua, New Hampshire runs its own CommunityVotes ballot at nashua.communityvotes.com, a separate market page from the CommunityVotes ballot covering Manchester. Confirmed editions stand at two, 2024 and 2025, and the current nomination window sits open from August 2 through November 29. Once that window closes, the platform's own labeling points toward a Voting Period next; the exact date for it belongs on the live page, confirmed fresh each cycle.

Events Awards

New Hampshire Business Review runs the Events Awards as a reader-voted honors program across the whole state. Voting takes place each December through January, and confirmed editions reach from 2019 through 2026. The ballot lives on nhbr.com rather than a third-party contest platform, which sets it apart from the region best-of ballots in the same market. Category names, exact window dates and supporter limits are not published, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Excellence In Nursing Awards

Nominations for Excellence In Nursing Awards have no published calendar dates in the available program information. New Hampshire organizes this statewide public-vote award with New Hampshire Magazine and the New Hampshire Nurses Association, and confirmed program years include 2025 and 2026.

Hippo's Best of NH

Hippo Press's annual readers' poll for the Manchester-Nashua metro in Southern New Hampshire, ballots open January through February, and the alt-weekly publishes a top-five ranking per category, not one winner, in its April issue. Red Arrow Diner is the ballot's most consistent top finisher.

Nashua Pizza Madness Tournament

Nashua Ink Link's annual Pizza Madness Tournament pits local pizzerias against each other in a bracket, with readers voting online to advance a shop round by round at nashua.inklink.news. Voting resets with every new round rather than running once on a single combined ballot.

NH Lakes Region Parade of Homes

Lakes Region HBA's annual fall Parade of Homes, a People's Choice vote for builders and remodelers working in Laconia, Meredith, and Gilford. No public vote count, category list, or fixed dates are confirmed; check lakesregionhba.com directly each cycle before promoting an entry.

Often And Early For Lynda Doughty Of Phippsburg Maine For Cnn Hero Of The Year

WOKQ, a country radio station serving New Hampshire, promotes a public-vote push titled Often And Early For Lynda Doughty Of Phippsburg Maine For Cnn Hero Of The Year. The station directs supporters toward Lynda Doughty of Phippsburg, Maine on the CNN Hero of the Year ballot. Voting was live when the page ran, with CNN set to announce the Hero of the Year on December 12. The campaign page on wokq.com has returned every year from 2021 through 2026.

Seacoast Baseball Preseason Player of the Year

The Seacoast preseason baseball award is a Crowdsignal ballot for high school baseball in the New Hampshire Seacoast, organized by Seacoast at poll.fm. Confirmed edition years are 2023, 2025 and 2026, voting falls in March and April, and the next run is expected in 2027.

Seacoast Boys Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year

The Seacoast Boys Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year ballot is run by the Seacoast publication and hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Confirmed editions sit in 2022, 2025 and 2026, with voting recorded in April. The ballot covers boys high school lacrosse across the New Hampshire Seacoast region. Exact window dates and voting rules are not published, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Seacoast Boys Soccer Player of the Year

Seacoast Boys Soccer Player of the Year is a New Hampshire sports poll organized by Seacoast and hosted through Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Dated evidence identifies 2023 and 2025 as confirmed edition years, with the latest voting period placed in December 2025. Exact window dates, ballot categories, participation limits and eligibility details confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Seacoast Girls Volleyball Player of the Year

Seacoast organizes this New Hampshire public-vote award, named Seacoast Girls Volleyball Player of the Year. The Crowdsignal (poll.fm) ballot sits at https://poll.fm/16314238. Editions are confirmed for 2023 and 2025, and the 2025 ballot was open in November. No roster of categories appears, and no limit per supporter is stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Seacoast Softball Preseason Player of the Year

Seacoast Softball Preseason Player of the Year is a New Hampshire program organized by Seacoast and hosted on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Ballot activity is associated with Mar-Apr, with confirmed edition years of 2023, 2025, and 2026. Exact window dates, categories, limits, eligibility, and platform round dates confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Tag Gingerbread Contest Portsmouth

The Tag Gingerbread Contest Portsmouth is a seasonal People's Choice gingerbread competition staged each winter by Portsmouth Historical Society on its own website, portsmouthhistory.org. The 35th annual edition carried voting from November 28 through December 30, 2025, and supporters could scroll photos of the entries online or vote in person. The society publishes no category breakdown and no limit on repeat votes, so those details belong to whatever the current ballot page prints.

Union Leader Readers' Choice

The New Hampshire Union Leader's own readers-choice ballot, roughly 180 categories on the SecondStreet platform, centered on Manchester and reaching statewide.

Vote for Seacoast boys basketball Player of the Year

Seacoast runs a public ballot that names the Player of the Year for boys high school basketball in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, carried on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2026, and the 2026 ballot sat in a March window. The ballot page prints no opening or closing day, no nomination dates and no per-supporter rules, so supporters should read the live ballot before planning a push.

Vote for Seacoast boys lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year

Under the Seacoast name, high school boys lacrosse fans in the New Hampshire Seacoast pick a preseason player of the year through an open ballot carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm domain. Voting has run in April across confirmed editions in 2022, 2025 and 2026. Nominees appear with school, class and position, and the public picks the winner. Exact dates and rules are not printed ahead of each cycle.

Vote for Seacoast girls basketball Player of the Year

Seacoast, the publisher covering New Hampshire's coast, names a girls basketball Player of the Year through a public poll on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling service. The current ballot sits at poll.fm/16776022. Editions are confirmed for 2023 and 2026, and the 2026 poll was open during March before closing. Nominees are listed with school, class and position, drawing support from communities such as Exeter, Newmarket, Portsmouth and York. Exact calendar dates, category detail and any per-supporter rule are not printed by the publisher.