Now Best Beach In Ocean County Where Are You Going (mybeachradio): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best Beach in Ocean County poll is and who runs it

Now Best Beach In Ocean County Where Are You Going is a public beach poll run by WJLK, a radio station in New Jersey that publishes online under the My Beach Radio name at mybeachradio.com. The ballot page lives at mybeachradio.com/vote-now-best-beach-in-ocean-county-where-are-you-going/, with no outside voting service involved at any step. The question it puts to the audience is deliberately personal: of the beautiful beaches along the Ocean County shoreline, if there was one favorite where you stick your toes into the soft sand, which would it be. The page then tells readers to vote.

The framing matters for anyone whose name ends up on the ballot. WJLK labels the outcome as decided by the audience, with category labels on the page reading Voted By You The Number One Beach in Ocean County and Voted By You Ocean County. A win here is therefore a listener-voted title, not a judging panel's pick, and the audience is local radio listeners and Jersey Shore visitors choosing among beaches in one county.

In classification terms this is a best-of program, and the mechanic is a plain public vote with no judging layer. My Beach Radio brands the studio and surrounding listener features such as birthday shoutouts and Jersey Hired promotions, but the poll sits under the site's Vote Now banner as its own standing feature. The table gathers the program's fixed details in one place.

The dated history of the poll and what WJLK has not published

The poll has a long published run. Confirmed editions ran in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, making the poll an unbroken annual feature of the My Beach Radio calendar, not a one-off promotion. The first confirmed edition's page was published on April 26, 2021, and the voting window in that run fell within April, opening and closing inside that single month.

What the station has not printed is the fine print. WJLK has not published the precise opening and closing days in any edition, a ceiling on repeat participation, or eligibility rules for the poll; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No separate nomination or finalist rounds are published for this market either, so the ballot that appears in April is the whole event as far as the published material shows.

For a beach business, the practical reading is this: the month is known, the day is not. A supporter or a nominated beach that wants to time a push around the opening of voting has to watch the station's own pages as April approaches, because the published history confirms the month and the recurrence but stops short of a day-level schedule for any year, including the most recent run in 2026.

How a supporter votes in the beach poll today

Voting here could hardly be simpler. To take part, a supporter heads to the ballot page at mybeachradio.com, reads the single question about their favorite beach in Ocean County, picks the beach they intend to back from the choices shown, and submits the vote through the poll on the page. No outside voting platform sits in the middle, no separate registration step is printed on the page, and no round structure is published beyond the April window itself.

Because the ballot sits on mybeachradio.com itself, the supporter's experience is shaped entirely by what My Beach Radio prints on that page. WJLK has not published a ceiling on repeat participation, a rule about returning to the poll or a login requirement, so the live poll is the authority on how many times the same person may take part and whether any sign-in is asked for. A supporter who plans to return should simply follow what the ballot allows on each visit.

The question itself is worth quoting, because it explains the kind of support a beach attracts: if there was one favorite beach of yours where you stick your toes into the soft sand, which would it be. That phrasing invites a personal, emotional choice rather than a comparison of services, which is why WJLK can label the result as voted by the audience and why a winning beach earns a title its visitors recognize.

How this poll sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

Ocean County sits inside a crowded New Jersey best-of field, and this poll's neighbours each answer to a different publisher. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice is a newspaper program, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards and Bergen & Morris Top Dentists serve northern counties, and the Best of New Jersey program covers the whole state. The Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice covers the county just to the north.

The closest neighbour in subject matter is the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, which also reaches the shore audience. The difference is scope and publisher: that contest answers to a different organizer entirely, while this poll is run by WJLK on My Beach Radio and asks one question about one county's beaches. A beach nominated in one earns nothing automatic in the other, and support built for one ballot does not carry across.

What makes this poll distinctive within the field is its host. It is the only program in this group run by a radio station on the station's web home, which means the audience is built from listeners rather than from a newspaper's readership or a statewide directory, and the ballot is a single standing question rather than a multi-category awards slate.

Building real support during the April window

A beach that lands on this ballot has one thing most contests do not: a fixed, short month to work with. The voting window falls in April, so the useful work happens before and during that month, not after. WJLK's own framing helps, because the question asks for a personal favorite, which means the support that counts comes from people who have actually been to the sand. Asking day visitors, posting the ballot link where regulars already follow the beach, and asking the station's listeners directly are the moves that fit this ballot's shape.

The station has published no rule about outside help, paid or otherwise, so the live ballot and the station's posts are the authority on what is allowed. Our votes guide covers how support is typically built in local radio polls like this one, and what separates a push that lasts from one that risks the result.