Best Burger Hudson Valley: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Best Burger Hudson Valley is and who runs it

Best Burger Hudson Valley is a single-category public-vote award run by WPDA, a radio station based in New York whose web home is wpdh.com. The burger round sits inside the station's wider Battle of the Best series, and the 2019 edition carried the on-page title Battle of the Best 2019: Best Burger. Unlike a chamber of commerce ballot or a citywide readers poll, this is a station property hosted on the publisher's own domain, which means the rules, the rounds and the results all live where the station publishes its other contest material.

The ballot's scope is deliberately narrow. Boris and Robyn asked listeners for their favorites among mid-Hudson region restaurants and breweries for the 2019 burger edition, which places the program firmly in the food and drink life of the Hudson Valley rather than across every retail category at once. Nearby markets answer to different publishers: Best of Brooklyn and Best of Queens cover borough readers-choice ballots, while Best of Westchester belongs to a magazine one county south. The burger ballot is the only one of these that a Hudson Valley restaurant owner reaches through WPDA.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for the WPDA burger vote

The confirmed edition years for Best Burger Hudson Valley are 2019, 2024 and 2026. The 2019 edition is the one whose ballot page still stands at its own address on wpdh.com, and the station's Battle of the Best coverage for that year framed the burger question as an audience request: Boris and Robyn asked for favorites, and the audience answered in volume. Between the confirmed editions, pages for this program were recorded in every year from 2019 through 2026, which is why the ballot reads as a recurring station fixture rather than a promotion that appeared once and vanished.

The station's material places the Battle of the Best cycle inside a March to May span, with the burger program in its nominations phase during that period. WPDA does not print the precise opening and closing dates for the nomination or voting rounds ahead of the cycle, and no per-supporter vote limit or eligibility text has been published for this ballot either ; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Anyone planning a push around this round should therefore anchor their calendar to the station's announcement rather than to a date carried over from the 2019 page.

How a supporter votes on the live ballot today

The mechanic is a public vote on a page the station controls itself, which makes the supporter's path short. Open the Best Burger Hudson Valley page at wpdh.com while a round is active, scan the ballot as it is published for the current cycle, and select the mid-Hudson restaurant or brewery you want to back. The ballot logs the choice once the form is submitted, following whatever confirmation steps the live page asks for. Because WPDA hosts the vote on its own domain rather than an outside balloting service, there is no separate platform login or external site involved; the station's page is the whole ballot.

Two practical points follow from that setup. First, the entry you select is the entry the station counts, so supporters should verify the restaurant's name on the live list rather than assuming last cycle's roster carried over; the field of participating spots is drawn fresh for each edition. Second, the burger round runs inside the station's wider Battle of the Best series, which the 2019 pages show alongside companion questions such as Best Taco, Best Coffee and Best Diner. A supporter who lands on the series page rather than the burger page should follow the burger link specifically, since the series treats each food question as its own ballot within the same March to May span.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

The Hudson Valley market holds more than one best-of ballot, and they answer to different publishers. Best Burger Hudson Valley belongs to WPDA and runs on wpdh.com, while Best of Hudson Valley is a magazine property with its own broad readers poll across many categories. A mid-Hudson restaurant can therefore appear in both, but support earned in one does not transfer to the other; each ballot counts its own votes on its own schedule. The burger program is the narrower of the two, asking a single food question of the station's audience, which tends to make each vote more concentrated on the participating restaurants and breweries.

Beyond the immediate region, the state's other best-of programs sit in different markets with different hosts: The City's Best, Best of New York City, Best of the Bronx, and the borough ballots already named above. None of them shares WPDA's Battle of the Best branding or its March to May nomination span. What makes the burger ballot distinct in this company is the combination of a radio audience, a single food category and a host domain that belongs to the organizer, so a supporter's effort goes straight to one station's page rather than being spread across a multi-category contest.

Strengthening support in the WPDA burger round

Because this is a radio-audience poll on one page, the campaigns that move it are direct ones. A restaurant that wants to win should ask its regulars while the March to May nomination span is live, give them the exact wpdh.com address for the burger ballot and the name to select, and repeat the ask on its own channels across the span of the round rather than only once at the start. The station has not published what outside help it permits or prohibits on this ballot, so any supporter considering purchased votes should read the terms on the live page first, and can compare service options for award ballots at buy award votes.

Winning a public poll is never a promise anyone can honestly make; the organizer's audience and the live rules decide the outcome.