For Best Saranac Soda: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the For Best Saranac Soda poll is and who runs it

For Best Saranac Soda is a listener poll run by WLZW, a radio station in New York, on the station's own website. The ballot lives at lite987.com under the address lite987.com/vote-for-best-saranac-soda/, and its on-page title asks a single question: which Saranac Soda is the all-time best flavor? The framing is conversational rather than ceremonial. The page tells readers to settle the debate once and for all, vote for a favorite, and see whether the rest of CNY agrees.

In the taxonomy of public votes this is a best-of program in the business vertical, but it behaves more like a radio topic poll than a formal awards balloting. There is no nomination round described, no entry form, and no prize attached anywhere on the page. The subject is a soda brand's flavor lineup, and the winner earns bragging rights on air rather than a plaque or a check.

Because the station keeps the whole contest on its own domain, the ballot's look and rules are whatever the station prints there. That matters for supporters: no third-party service carries a separate rules tab or a platform-wide voting policy alongside this poll. The station's page is the entire surface of the contest, which is why this guide keeps pointing back to the live ballot for anything the station has chosen not to fix in writing.

Facts at a glance

The dated history of this Saranac Soda poll

The confirmed edition years are 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. That list is the entire dated history: six years on an annual rhythm, with no confirmed editions in 2020, 2021 or 2022. The rhythm makes this a recurring station feature rather than a one-off promotion, and the most recent confirmed edition is the 2026 cycle.

The season shape comes from the September cycle the page shows. That cycle played out in September, and the station told listeners it would post the results on Friday, September 14th, ending the flavor debate on air. The station has never printed the days the voting opens or closes; the actual dates should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

Two further gaps are worth naming plainly. No rules text appears on the ballot page, so nothing has been published about a vote cap, a one-vote-per-day limit, or who counts as an eligible voter. And no dates have been printed for any rounds beyond the results announcement, because the poll as shown has a single straightforward phase rather than a staged schedule. A supporter planning around this poll therefore works backwards from the results date the station announces, not from a published calendar, and treats September as the season the station has actually shown.

How a supporter votes in the Saranac Soda poll today

Voting here could hardly be more direct. You open the ballot page at lite987.com while a cycle is active, read the flavor question, pick the Saranac Soda flavor you consider the all-time best, and submit. Everything happens on the station's domain, so there is no external balloting account, no platform login and no separate verification step described on the page.

What the page does not fix is how often a person may vote. The station has published no per-supporter limit and no daily return rule, so anyone hoping to cast another vote has no printed permission to point to. The safe reading is that the page in front of you is the rule: if it offers a way to vote again, that offer is the limit; if it does not, the vote you cast is the one that stands.

The flavor lineup itself also belongs to the live page. The question is about Saranac Soda flavors, and which flavors appear as options in a given cycle is whatever the station lists that year. Nothing anchors a particular flavor list to every edition, so a supporter returning in a later cycle should expect to re-read the options rather than assume the menu carried over. The results announcement is the natural end point, delivered on air and on the site in the September cycle the page shows, on Friday, September 14th.

How this poll sits beside other New York best-of ballots

New York is a crowded state for public votes, and this poll's neighbours on this site show how different the formats are. The siblings here are city and regional best-of programs: Best of Brooklyn, Best of Hudson Valley, The City's Best, Best of New York City, Best of Queens, Best of the Bronx and Best of Westchester. Those ballots are typically multi-category readers' choice contests run by local publishers across hundreds of businesses.

The For Best Saranac Soda poll is a different animal. It is a single-question flavor poll run by a radio station for its listeners, anchored to a soda brand and to CNY rather than to a city's business scene. There are no categories to browse, no merchant profiles and no nomination stage. A vote here is a vote in a running on-air argument about soda, not a ballot that decides which local shop wins a readers' choice title.

That difference shapes strategy too. In a large multi-category contest, a business can mobilize customers category by category. Here the entire contest is one question, so support concentrates on a single flavor and the audience is the station's own listeners. Anyone comparing this page with the New York siblings above should read them as separate programs with separate rules, publishers and calendars rather than as editions of one statewide thing.

Strengthening support for a flavor in this poll

Because this ballot is one question on the station's own site, a push for a flavor lives or dies on reaching CNY listeners directly. The station publishes no rules about outside help, vote limits or repeat voting, which means there is no printed line between ordinary encouragement and anything the station might object to. That absence is a reason for caution, not invention: the only stated mechanics are the ones the ballot page itself shows.

The practical playbook for a poll of this shape is narrow and social. Share the ballot link where Saranac fans already talk, ask friends and coworkers to pick your flavor, and time the push for when the station is actively promoting the debate on air. For a fuller rundown of methods that work on public ballots, see our votes guide. Anything beyond what the printed page allows is a decision to make with the ballot's own rules in view.