Now Who Has The Best Big Hair In New Jersey: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WJLK-FM big hair ballot is and who runs it

A nominating listener or a supporting friend landing on this programme for the first time usually wants one thing settled before anything else: who actually runs this ballot, and where it lives. The answer is short. WJLK-FM runs Now Who Has The Best Big Hair In New Jersey, a best-of style public vote published on 943thepoint.com, the site the station owns. The station is a commercial radio operation licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, which puts the programme squarely in the New Jersey market rather than in any neighboring state's ballot ecosystem.

The programme's origin matters for how you read it today. The station asked its listeners to show photos of their big hair for a chance at tickets to an exclusive Bon Jovi experience in Philadelphia, and the entries that came back became the basis of the public vote. That makes the ballot a promotion built out of a photo push, not a chamber award or a readers' choice survey with a long rulebook behind it. The vertical is best-of, the mechanic is a free public choice, and the audience is the station's listeners across the Jersey Shore and the wider state.

Programme facts

The dated record for the big hair ballot, and what the station leaves unstated

The confirmed run for this programme is unusually clean for a station promotion. Editions of the big hair ballot ran in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, five consecutive cycles, and the next expected run is 2027. That pattern supports describing the programme as annual, and it means a supporter who finds the ballot in any given March is looking at a fixture, not a one-off stunt.

Within each cycle the window sits in March. The ballot's own text has dated a close of voting at Wednesday, March 29 at 10 a.m., which is the one hard deadline the programme's pages carry, and even that belongs to a single edition rather than to the series. Every other boundary is unpublished: the station has not released the precise open and close dates for the 2027 edition of the big hair ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same caution applies to the structure inside the window, because no round dates or nomination phase are printed anywhere for this programme.

Two further gaps follow from that. The station prints no vote cap and no eligibility text for the big hair poll. It also publishes no category roster, since the ballot is a single novelty question rather than a multi-category survey. Anyone voting in this poll should treat the live page at 943thepoint.com as the only authority on when the current window opens, when it shuts, and what rules govern it.

How a supporter votes on the big hair ballot today

The literal mechanic is as plain as a public vote gets. A supporter opens the ballot at 943thepoint.com, where the page leads with the headline VOTE NOW: Who Has The Best Big Hair In New Jersey?. The entries on display are the listener photos the station collected through its big hair push, tied originally to the Bon Jovi ticket experience in Philadelphia. The supporter reviews the entries, selects the one they back, and submits the choice on the same page. There is no separate nomination form to chase in a normal cycle, because the entries already exist by the time the vote opens.

No account requirement is printed on the ballot page for the WJLK-FM vote, so a supporter arriving from a shared link can act immediately. That is worth knowing when you are the one doing the sharing, because every step between your friend and the submit action costs you support in a March window that closes at a fixed hour. One edition's page set the close at 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, a morning deadline rather than a late-night one, which catches casual supporters out more often than a weekend close would.

What the page does not settle is repeat voting. No per-supporter allowance is printed for the WJLK-FM poll, so follow the instructions the live ballot shows and treat any assumption about daily returns as unverified. The station's site also carries its own contest hub, where related promotions appear alongside the big hair vote during the March window.

How the big hair vote sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

Within the New Jersey best-of landscape, this programme occupies a deliberately narrow lane. It is a single-question novelty ballot run by a radio station, while the larger readers' choice programmes in the same state run multi-category surveys under newspaper and magazine brands. Six sibling programmes sit in the same market and vertical, each answering to its own publisher: Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice, Bergen & Morris Top Dentists, Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards, Best of Jersey Shore Contest, Best of New Jersey and Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice.

The differences are practical, not just cosmetic. A newspaper readers' choice spreads a supporter's attention across dozens of categories and a longer calendar, so a local business there competes inside a crowded ballot for weeks. The WJLK-FM big hair vote compresses everything into one question and a March window, which means the entire campaign for or against an entry happens in a short, sharp stretch and closes on a printed hour. Nobody should carry tactics between the two shapes without checking them.

The origin story also separates this ballot from its neighbours. The Asbury Park station built the programme out of a listener photo push for an exclusive Bon Jovi experience in Philadelphia, so the entries carry a personal, entertainment-first tone that no chamber survey replicates. For a listener or an entrant, that is the appeal: the competition is about a look and a story, run by a station whose audience already treats the ballot as part of its March listening.

Strengthening support for an entry on the WJLK-FM ballot

An entry on the big hair ballot wins support the same way it earned its place: through the photo and the story around it. The programme began with the station asking listeners to show photos of their big hair for a Bon Jovi ticket chance in Philadelphia, so the audience arrives expecting personality, not polish. Lead your push with the entry image itself, shared to the channels where your own friends and followers already engage, and always link the exact ballot address at 943thepoint.com rather than the station's homepage.

Timing matters more here than on a long readers' choice calendar. The window sits in March and one edition closed at 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, so a supporter who waits for the evening may find the vote shut. Ask early in the window, name the closing time when you share, and repeat the ask across the days the ballot stays open, subject to whatever return rule the live page states.

The station prints no rules text on outside help for this poll, so keep any campaign inside what the ballot page itself allows. On the broader subject of paid support for ballots like this one, the service overview at buy award votes covers the landscape without promising any result, which is the honest frame this programme's own thin rulebook leaves you with.