For The Cutest Couple At The Jersey Shore App: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and why the Shore rallies for this ballot

For The Cutest Couple At The Jersey Shore App is a listener promotion from WJLK-FM, the commercial radio station licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and heard across the Shore as 94.3 The Point. The station brands itself the Jersey Shore's Hit Music Channel, and the cutest couple ballot is its Valentine's season centerpiece: the page opens by saying that Valentine's Day is just around the corner and that the station wants to celebrate all of the cute, loving, adoring couples at the Jersey Shore.

The audience is unusually personal for a public vote. Listeners are not choosing a business or a pet; they are choosing friends, siblings, parents and their own partners, which is why support for this ballot tends to travel through wedding groups, high school reunion pages and Shore town community boards rather than through general contest forums. A couple's vote count here usually reflects how widely its own network pushes the link.

Unlike many ballots of this kind, the vote runs on 943thepoint.com itself instead of a third-party polling service. The ballot lives at https://943thepoint.com/vote-for-the-cutest-couple-at-the-jersey-shore-app/, inside the station's normal site navigation beside its shows, schedule and newsletter prompts. The table below pins down the essentials.

Confirmed years and the voting window, edition by edition

The ballot is a recurring February program with a solid history behind it. Confirmed editions ran in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, five consecutive cycles, pointing to a 2026 return. Every edition has been anchored to the Valentine's Day stretch, which is what you would expect from a promotion the station frames entirely around the holiday.

The fullest window on file belongs to the 2025 cycle. Entries were accepted from Friday, January 24, 2025, and the entry period closed on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. After the close of the entry period, the entries were compiled and posted online for public voting, which ran from Wednesday, February 5, 2025, until 11:59PM ET on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. That makes the 2025 entry phase and voting phase overlap at the end, with voting closing the same day entries did.

The 2021 edition ran on a different shape. Its page showed Round 1 voting beginning Monday, February 15th, with all voting ending Sunday, February 28th at midnight, and noted that the winning couple would be recognized afterward. A round structure in 2021 and a single compiled ballot in 2025 suggests the station has adjusted the format between editions, though no page states the intermediate years' exact dates.

Two things the station has left off the ballot page matter to supporters: the roster of categories the ballot uses, and any limit on repeat voting or on who may take part; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No prize description appears on the page either, so the reward for the winning couple is likewise something to read from the live form.

How a supporter actually votes on the 943thepoint.com ballot

The mechanic is the simplest kind of public vote. Because WJLK-FM hosts the ballot on its own site, a supporter's whole task happens on a single page: open 943thepoint.com/vote-for-the-cutest-couple-at-the-jersey-shore-app/, look over the couples posted for the current edition, select the one you back, and submit the vote through the page's own controls. There is no external polling platform to navigate, no platform login wall standing in front of the form, and no separate contest domain to trust.

Timing is the part supporters most often get wrong. The 2025 voting window closed at 11:59PM ET on Tuesday, February 11, the same day the entry period ended, so a supporter who waits for Valentine's Day itself has already missed the ballot. In 2021 the window ran later in the month, from February 15th to February 28th at midnight. The lesson from the two editions on file is that the close date moves, and the live page is the only reliable source for it.

What the page does not settle is frequency. The station has not printed a rule on how often a supporter may return and vote again during the window, and no eligibility text accompanies the ballot. A supporter planning a daily routine for their couple should therefore take whatever instruction the live form gives at face value rather than assuming a pattern from another year or another station's contest.

After the close, the result rests with the station. The 2021 page promised recognition for the winning couple once voting ended, and the promotion's whole framing, celebrating the Shore's cutest, loving, adoring couples, points to an on-air and on-site announcement rather than a silent result.

Where this ballot sits among Jersey Shore public votes

The cutest couple ballot is unusual in the New Jersey public-vote landscape because it is a station-owned promotion on a station-owned domain. Most of the state's better-known ballots belong to publishers running reader-choice programs or to platforms hosting themed contests, and each answers to a different organizer with its own rules.

The nearest neighbours in the market make the contrast clear. The 94.5 PST Pet Costume Contest is a pet-themed listener vote from a different Shore station. The Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week is a weekly sports ballot from the county's daily paper, and the same publisher runs the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice program for local businesses. Further north, the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists list and the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards serve the Bergen County audience, while the Best of Jersey Shore Contest covers the entire Shore business scene.

Among these six programs, the WJLK-FM ballot stands apart on subject and season. It is the group's only ballot devoted to couples rather than pets, athletes, dentists or businesses, and it runs in a tight February window tied to Valentine's Day instead of a year-round or fall schedule. It is also the only one hosted entirely on its organizer's own site, which keeps the voting experience, and the rules printed on the page, in the station's hands alone.

Strengthening support for your couple before the window closes

Because this ballot closes fast, the couples that do well are the ones that start pushing the link the day voting opens. In 2025 that meant moving within the February 5 to February 11 stretch, and the short window rewards couples who treat it like a sprint: a post on each partner's personal accounts, a message to both families, and a nudge to any Shore town group where the couple is known. The ballot's own framing helps, since asking friends to back your relationship on Valentine's season reads as celebration rather than solicitation.

Keep every push pointed at the station's own URL. A link that lands on 943thepoint.com's contest page directly saves supporters a search, and a search can drop them on the wrong year's page or on one of the station's other promotions. If you are unsure whether the form allows repeat visits from the same supporter, read the instructions on the live page before organizing a daily routine around it.

The station has not published a rules text saying what it permits or prohibits in outside voting help, so the cautious position is to keep support organic and personal. For a fuller picture of what works on public-vote ballots of this kind, see our votes guide, and for the paid side of the question, our award votes page explains the service category without promising any outcome.