For Your Favorite New Jersey Beach Audio: How Voting Works & How to Win

A beach question, not a business ballot

Most public-vote programs in New Jersey ask a shopper to choose between businesses: a dentist, a restaurant, a local service. The For Your Favorite New Jersey Beach Audio survey turns that shape inside out. WKXW, the radio station publishing at nj1015.com, puts a single question to its listeners: which New Jersey beach is your favorite? There is no storefront to promote and no category ladder to climb, just a stretch of sand and the loyalty of the people who visit it.

The survey runs on WKXW's own nj1015.com domain, with no outside balloting service involved, and that matters for how a supporter experiences it. Everything from the question to the submission happens under the same masthead that carries the station's news and talk programming. The page frames the vote around the annual New Jersey Top Ten Beaches Survey, giving the beach question a pedigree beyond a one-off promotion.

For classification purposes this is a best-of program in the business vertical, aimed at a statewide audience of New Jersey radio listeners and beachgoers. But unlike the readers' choice contests that dominate the state's ballot calendar, the thing being ranked is a place, not a merchant. That difference shapes every piece of advice in this guide, because the support a beach can rally looks nothing like the customer base a business can mobilize.

The dated run behind the beach survey

The survey's published run is the strongest fact on this page. Confirmed editions span every year across 2020 through 2025, six consecutive cycles on the nj1015.com ballot. The page itself describes the underlying New Jersey Top Ten Beaches Survey as annual, so the recurrence is not an inference from the year list alone; the station says it in its own framing.

Dated windows appear in the station's printed text. Voting is described as opening officially at 12 p.m. and continuing through April 30, and a 2016 window ran May 2 to June 10. Those are the window facts the ballot material carries; they anchor the survey in late spring, the season when shore loyalty runs highest. What WKXW has not printed anywhere on the ballot material is this year's open and close dates, so the nj1015.com page itself is where the current window lives.

Two other gaps sit alongside the dates. WKXW has not printed a category breakdown for the survey, and no per-supporter limit or eligibility text appears on the ballot page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A supporter who wants to plan a push across the window therefore works from the shape the 2016 dates suggest and verifies everything else on the nj1015.com ballot itself before committing time to it.

Casting a vote on the nj1015.com ballot

The mechanic is as simple as open voting gets. A supporter opens the ballot at nj1015.com/vote-for-your-favorite-new-jersey-beach-audio/, reads the single beach question, picks a favorite New Jersey beach and submits. WKXW keeps the whole exercise on its own domain, so no outside balloting service stands between the voter and the question, no nomination round precedes it, and no account step is described anywhere on the page.

Because nj1015.com hosts the vote directly, the ballot inherits whatever behavior the station's page enforces on repeat visits. WKXW publishes no per-supporter rule, so a supporter planning to return daily during the window should simply watch how the survey responds to a second submission rather than assume a published allowance. That is the honest reading of a ballot that prints no rules text.

Timing is the other practical piece. The station's printed text describes an official 12 p.m. opening with the vote running through April 30, and the 2016 cycle stretched from May 2 into June 10, so a supporter should expect a late-spring window and verify the current dates on the live ballot. The steps in order: open the nj1015.com ballot, read the beach question, choose the beach, submit, and return before the close if repeat support is part of the plan. Every step happens in a browser on WKXW's own domain, which keeps the whole exercise simple for a first-time voter.

Where this ballot sits among New Jersey's vote programs

New Jersey's ballot calendar is crowded, and the WKXW beach survey occupies a distinct corner of it. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice program runs a broad readers' choice format, the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists ballot serves a health vertical in the state's northern counties, and the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards anchors a county community audience. Each of those asks voters to rank businesses.

The beach survey instead asks about a place, and it is statewide in reach rather than county-bound. The Best of New Jersey program shares the statewide frame but returns to the business-ranking shape, and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice narrows to a single county's food scene. The Best of Jersey Shore Contest is the closest neighbor thematically, since both programs trade on shore identity, yet it remains a separate publisher's ballot with its own rules and its own window.

What makes the WKXW survey different, then, is the combination of a radio publisher, an own-site ballot, a single beach question and a six-year run from 2020 through 2025. Support earned here is loyalty to a beach, not to a merchant, and it does not transfer to any sibling program on this list.

Rallying support for your beach before the window closes

A beach cannot email its customers, so the push runs on people. The ballot's mechanic rewards a simple loop: share the nj1015.com ballot link with everyone who has ever set foot on your sand, ask them directly to pick it, and remind them while the window is open. Shore towns have ready-made networks, from summer regulars to local social groups, and a late-spring window lines up with the moment shore loyalty peaks. WKXW has printed no rule against outside help, but it has printed no rules at all, so keep the push personal and verifiable rather than automated. Should paid support be on your mind, read the award-votes overview alongside the organizer's silence on the subject, and decide with the ballot's plain open-vote mechanic in view. What moves a beach survey is volume of genuine shore loyalty, gathered early and repeated through the window.