Colored Christmas Lights Or White Christmas Lights Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the SoJo 104.9 Christmas lights poll is and who runs it

The Colored Christmas Lights Or White Christmas Lights Poll is a seasonal listener vote run by WSJO, the FM radio station known on air as SoJo 104.9. The station serves the Atlantic City, New Jersey market with a pop format, and the poll appears at sojo1049.com, a domain the station runs itself, with no outside balloting service involved. That makes the station both the organizer and the host: the same newsroom that publishes the market's contests and promotions also publishes this ballot.

The question is deliberately simple. The station's own framing says some people think more is more with Christmas lights, while for others the choice between colored lights and white lights is a more polarizing decision, and it asks listeners directly which side they are on. There is no nominee roster, no business list and no category breakdown; the entire ballot is that one two-option choice.

In the wider field of New Jersey public votes, this poll is the lightest of the bunch. Where readers-choice programs such as the Best of New Jersey ballot run across many categories, the SoJo 104.9 poll is a single seasonal question with a December window. The table below collects the published facts.

The dated record: which editions are confirmed and when voting falls

Six edition years are confirmed for this poll: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The run is not unbroken. There is no confirmed edition in 2020, and another gap sits between 2021 and 2024, so the poll is best described as a recurring December fixture rather than a guaranteed yearly one. The most recent confirmed edition is 2026, and the next expected cycle is 2027.

The window itself is a December affair. The 2018 ballot was published on December 17, and the confirmed voting window for that cycle ran across December, from the first of the month to the last. The station has kept the poll inside December in every confirmed year, which is what you would expect from a Christmas-themed question.

Missing from the station's published page are the day-level details for the current cycle: the exact open and close dates, any nomination or entry round, and the platform round dates are absent; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same page carries no category list beyond the two light options and no rules text on vote caps or eligibility, so a supporter planning around the 2027 cycle should treat the live sojo1049.com page as the only authority on timing and limits.

How a supporter votes in the December lights poll today

Voting takes under a minute. The supporter opens the poll page on sojo1049.com, reads the station's short note on the colored-versus- white debate, and finds the two-option module beneath it. One click selects colored Christmas lights or white Christmas lights, and a second click on the vote control logs the choice. The module typically shows the running tally once a vote is cast, so the supporter immediately sees where the listener audience stands.

There is no account step described on the page, no nominee to search for and no category to browse. That simplicity is the poll's defining mechanic: unlike a readers-choice ballot where a supporter may need to find a specific business among dozens, here the entire decision is one either-or pick. The only judgment a supporter makes is which side of the lights debate they are on.

The open question is repetition. No per-supporter limit and no daily-return rule appear on the station's page, so whether one person may vote once or come back each day of the December window is not stated. A supporter who wants to push one side should watch the live module's behavior during the window and follow whatever the page itself permits, rather than assuming a rule the station has not written down.

How this poll sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

New Jersey has a crowded field of public votes, and this poll is the outlier in shape. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice program, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards and the Best of Jersey Shore Contest are all multi-category readers-choice ballots where businesses compete across dozens of fields. The Bergen & Morris Top Dentists ballot and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice vote follow the same business-listing pattern in narrower verticals.

The SoJo 104.9 poll shares none of that structure. It names no businesses, awards no titles and carries no sponsorship tiers. Its subject is a household debate rather than a commercial ranking, its ballot is one question instead of a category list, and its host is a radio station's own site rather than a dedicated balloting platform. That makes it closer to a water-cooler poll than to a best-of competition, even though it recurs on a seasonal rhythm like the others.

A supporter feels the difference in effort. A readers-choice ballot rewards organized pushes for a named business; this poll rewards whichever side of the lights question rallies more listeners inside the December window. The two formats attract different kinds of campaigns, and tactics built for one do not transfer cleanly to the other.

Strengthening your side in the SoJo 104.9 lights poll

Because the ballot is one two-option question, support here is about reach, not ballot navigation. There is no nominee link to distribute, only the poll page itself, so the effective move is to share the sojo1049.com address with people who already agree with your side and ask them to vote while the December window is open. A short message framing the choice, colored or white, travels well on neighborhood groups and family chats because everyone has an opinion on Christmas lights.

The station has published no rules text on outside help for this poll, so no stated threshold exists beyond the module's own behavior. Whatever push you organize, keep it honest: real people, genuinely asked, voting once as the page allows. Coordinated schemes that a station's voting module can flag as irregular carry risk the poll page does not address, and no outside service can promise a result the station's tally controls.

If your interest in public votes is broader than this one question, our award-votes page explains how support works across readers-choice style ballots, which behave very differently from a single-question radio poll like this one.