Now For Your Favorite Beach At The Jersey Shore: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WJLK-FM favorite beach poll is and who runs it

This page covers a single program: the favorite beach poll that WJLK-FM runs for the Jersey Shore. WJLK-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and the ballot lives on 943thepoint.com, the station's own web property, rather than on a third-party voting platform. The page title reads Vote Now for your Favorite Beach at the Jersey Shore, and the site brands itself as the Jersey Shore's hit music channel, with morning shows, weekend programming and a live stream surrounding the ballot.

The program sits in the best-of vertical: supporters compare beaches and vote for the stretch of coastline they want crowned. Anyone reaching the page can take part in the straight public vote. Phrases printed on the page include Best Beach and Best Jersey Shore Beach, which indicates the ballot is built around naming a single favorite shoreline, though the full category roster is not laid out there.

No entry fee and no nomination form are described; the page opens straight into voting with the line "Voting is now officially open". For readers comparing New Jersey ballots, this poll is narrower than a citywide readers' choice survey: the subject is the shoreline itself, and the audience is the station's shore-area listeners plus anyone the summer campaign reaches online.

The dated record: editions, the July window and what is unpublished

3 edition years are confirmed for this program: 2020, 2025 and 2026. The ballot address at 943thepoint.com has carried the poll continuously across the span from 2020 through 2026, which is why the program reads as an annual fixture even though only those 3 years carry direct edition evidence.

The voting window falls in July: the timing places both the start and the end of the cycle in that month. The 2020 page tied the announcement of official results to the kickoff of the July 4th holiday and told readers to stay tuned for when NJSGC would announce them, so the results moment has historically landed right at the start of the month.

What the station has not printed anywhere on the ballot page is the precise day the July window opens or closes, nor any rule on repeat voting frequency; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No platform round dates exist for this market either, since the poll runs on 943thepoint.com itself, outside any third-party promotions calendar.

Treat 2027 as the expected next cycle and verify the dates on the page itself before planning any push around the results announcement. A campaign built on a guessed date risks landing either before the ballot opens or after it closes, and neither mistake is recoverable within a window this short.

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

Voting happens on the station's own page. A supporter opens the ballot at 943thepoint.com/vote-now-for-your-favorite-beach-at-the-jersey-shore/, scans the beach names listed there, and selects a favorite. The page presents the vote directly, with no separate registration round described: the 2020 text opened with "Voting is now officially open", which points to a ballot that is live when the page says it is.

Because the poll runs on the station's own site, no third-party login wall is named on the page; whether the current ballot asks for an email or any identifying detail is not stated, so a supporter simply follows whatever the form asks that day. The phrases Best Beach and Best Jersey Shore Beach on the page suggest the choice is a single favorite shoreline rather than a multi-category ballot.

After submitting, a supporter who wants a beach to win returns through the July window and asks friends, family and social followers to do the same, since a shore-wide favorite is decided by the volume of public clicks rather than by a judging panel. Anyone planning a repeat-voting routine should read the fine print on the live form before relying on it, because WJLK-FM has not published a per-supporter rule and the form itself is the only authority on the matter.

How this beach poll sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

The Jersey Shore beach poll sits inside a crowded New Jersey best-of market, and the sibling programs on this site show how different the publishers are. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice is a newspaper-run survey covering a broad range of local businesses and services. The Bergen & Morris Top Dentists list and the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards serve the northern part of the state under separate publishers.

The Best of Jersey Shore Contest and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice both compete for shore-area attention, the latter focused on food in Monmouth County. The Best of New Jersey survey runs statewide.

Against that field, the WJLK-FM poll is the only ballot devoted to a single question about the coastline itself, broadcast by a music radio station rather than a newspaper or a food site. That narrowness cuts both ways: a beach named on this ballot gets a focused, passionate audience, while a restaurant or a dentist would find more categories to enter on the newspaper-style surveys. A business or booster deciding where to invest effort should match the program to the subject: shoreline advocacy belongs here, retail and dining belong on the broader readers' choice ballots.

Building real support inside the July window

Support in this poll is built on repetition and reach during the station's July window. Because the ballot is a single public vote on 943thepoint.com, the practical levers are asking every shore-going contact directly, posting the ballot link at the height of beach season when loyalty to a home shoreline runs strongest, and timing reminders around the July 4th stretch, which is when attention on the coast historically peaks and when the 2020 results landed.

WJLK-FM has printed no position on outside help or voting software for this ballot, so the safe position is the conservative: treat the ballot's own terms as the limit and build support through genuine outreach. Our guide on how to get more votes online covers outreach methods that suit public radio polls of this kind, and our legality page sets out the general legal position on paid support. For the wider context across award ballots, see buy award votes.