For Chelseas Next Hairstyle Sponsored: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Chelsea hairstyle vote is and who runs it

This ballot belongs to WPUR, the South Jersey radio station broadcasting as Cat Country 107.3 from catcountry1073.com. The page is titled Vote For Chelsea's Next Hairstyle [SPONSORED], and its premise is personal rather than commercial: Chelsea, a personality on the station, has had almost every hair color and hairstyle in the book, and listeners choose which look she should have next. That places it in the station's best-of and business vertical, but as a promotion built around a person rather than a readers' choice survey with a directory of local merchants behind it.

WPUR runs the vote on catcountry1073.com itself, with no outside balloting service involved. The live ballot sits at https://catcountry1073.com/vote-for-chelseas-next-hairstyle-sponsored/, and that address has carried the promotion across its run. On the WPUR page, the Community, Entertainment and News categories appear alongside South Jersey News, and the site's What's Hot rail promotes separate station offers such as a $500 Visa giveaway and the Seize the Deal auction. Those promotions are not part of this ballot; they simply share the page template.

Because the program is a sponsored personality feature, the sponsor's branding sits in the title itself. Any visitor to the WPUR page can weigh in on Chelsea's next look, and the promotion's own description describes no nomination round and no entry stage before the choice is made.

The dated history behind the Chelsea hairstyle ballot

The promotion has a long history for a station feature. Confirmed editions run in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which marks the Chelsea hairstyle ballot as a recurring summer fixture on the Cat Country 107.3 calendar rather than a stunt mounted a single time. The years 2020 and 2021 do not appear among the confirmed editions, so the run was not continuous across that stretch.

Within each cycle, the voting phase falls between June and August. That seasonal placement is the only timing detail the promotion's own pages state; WPUR has never printed the day voting opens, the day it closes, or whether the Chelsea ballot runs straight through the summer or in rounds. The station also leaves the operational rules off the page: no per-supporter vote limit, no statement on repeat visits, and no eligibility terms are printed anywhere on the ballot, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For a supporter planning around the ballot, the practical reading is that the promotion is live during the summer months and that the WPUR page itself is the authority on whether voting is open at the moment you arrive. The next expected cycle would be 2027 if the pattern of recent summers holds, though the station has not announced it.

How a supporter votes on the Chelsea hairstyle page today

Voting takes place entirely on the station's page. A supporter opens the Chelsea hairstyle ballot at catcountry1073.com, reads the short introduction explaining that Chelsea has had almost every hair color and hairstyle in the book, and picks the look she should have next from the options presented. The vote is cast on the WPUR page itself; there is no separate platform to visit and no third-party account mentioned anywhere in the promotion's description.

Because the station does not print a rules section, the practical questions a repeat supporter has, whether the Chelsea ballot accepts another vote the next day, whether a return visit is needed, and whether any sign-in is required, are not answered in the promotion's own text. The safest habit is to treat the WPUR page as the source of truth: load it, see what the ballot offers at that moment, and follow whatever the on-page controls allow.

Timing matters more here than on a directory-style ballot. The voting phase sits between June and August, so a supporter who discovers the Chelsea promotion late in the season should check the WPUR page promptly rather than assume weeks remain. Since the station has not published closing dates, the page is the only place the remaining time shows.

For readers who want broader tactics that work on any public vote, the site's guide on how to get more votes online covers outreach habits that do not rely on this ballot's unpublished rules.

How the Chelsea ballot sits beside New Jersey's other public votes

New Jersey readers have plenty of public votes to choose from, and the Chelsea hairstyle ballot stands apart because of its subject. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice survey, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards, the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, Best of New Jersey, the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice ballot and the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists list all ask audiences to rank local businesses and services. WPUR's hairstyle vote instead asks listeners to weigh in on a personality's next look, which puts it closer to entertainment programming than to a shopping guide.

That difference changes who votes and why. A readers' choice survey draws customers with a stake in a merchant's placement; the Chelsea hairstyle ballot draws the WPUR regular audience, people who know the personality from the air and follow the station's social channels. Support therefore travels by fandom rather than by business loyalty.

It also changes the competitive texture. There are no merchant categories to split the field, no directory of nominees, and no printed prize attached to the result; the payoff is the look itself, revealed on the station's terms. For readers comparing ballots across the state, each sibling page above carries its own publisher, rules and calendar, and none of them shares this WPUR promotion's host, window or subject.

Strengthening support on a personality ballot like this

Support for the Chelsea hairstyle ballot spreads differently from a business contest. The subject is a WPUR personality, so the people most likely to vote are listeners who already follow Cat Country 107.3's shows and social posts. A supporter who wants a particular look to win does best by reaching that audience directly: sharing the ballot link with fellow listeners, posting it where the station's fans gather, and asking at moments when the show is already being discussed.

The station prints no rules on outside help for this promotion, so the honest approach is simply to invite real people to vote rather than to inflate the tally by other means. Whether WPUR would act on suspected manipulation of the Chelsea ballot is not stated anywhere on the page. For a fuller picture of what strengthening support involves, see our award votes page, and for the legal position on paid support generally, our page on whether buying votes is legal sets out the question plainly.