Charlotte Weenie Walk King and Queen: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the King and Queen of CLT Weenie Walk is and who runs it

Charlotte Weenie Walk is the organizer behind a King and Queen of CLT Weenie Walk vote in North Carolina. The ballot page is labelled as a fundraiser for Charlotte Weenie Walk and is titled "King and Queen of CLT Weenie Walk 2025." Its description is short and exact: "The Top Male Dog and Female Dog with the most votes will be crowned CLT Weenie Walk's King and Queen of 2025!" The winners then lead the walk, which gives the online vote a physical payoff in the Charlotte area.

The contest runs on a GoGo Photo Contest page instead of a newspaper ballot, and its menu is built for entries and viewing: Participate, View Entries, Rules and About. A supporter does not browse a list of businesses here. The ballot is a gallery of dogs, and every entry is a photograph, so what a voter judges is a picture and a name chosen by an owner.

The organizer's page also includes a plain request that friends and family vote and attend the walk, which makes the vote a way to fill a Sunday afternoon event. The table gathers the facts that the confirmed page states.

The confirmed editions and the walk date

Charlotte Weenie Walk has staged this vote three times, in 2023, 2024 and 2025. That is a short run, but it clears the bar for a recurring vote, and the 2025 round is the one whose page is on file. It is marked as ended, with times shown in Eastern Time.

The walk date is the one fixed point in the text. Because the organizer asks supporters to vote and to attend, voting must close before that Sunday so the King and Queen can lead the procession, though the opening and closing days of the voting window are not printed. Beyond the male and female crowns, no category structure is printed for this vote, and the opening and closing hours of voting are left to the live page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A fresh edition would bring a new year in the page title, just as the 2025 title replaced earlier ones.

How a supporter votes for a King or Queen

Voting happens on the GoGo Photo Contest page for Charlotte Weenie Walk. A supporter uses View Entries to see the submitted dogs, picks the male or female dog to back, and votes. The mechanic is a plain photo vote: a vote count decides which male dog and which female dog take the crowns.

The structure has a quiet consequence. Because the male and female titles are decided separately, a male dog is not competing against a female dog for the same crown. A supporter who loves one particular dog needs that dog to lead only its own group. The page does not say how many votes one supporter may cast or how often, and the Rules link in the menu is the place to read that limit before promoting an entry.

Owners who want to enter use the Participate link. Entry details, such as any fee or photo requirement, are not printed in the confirmed text, so the rules page governs those too. After the vote, the winners lead the walk, which is why this ballot feels closer to an event invitation than to a business award. Voting is open to anyone with the link, since the text talks only about friends and family, not about residency in Charlotte.

How this vote sits beside other North Carolina ballots

Most North Carolina ballots on this site reward businesses, newspapers or schools. The weenie walk vote rewards pets, and it is tied to one fundraising event in the Charlotte area. Its siblings on this site include the Miss North Carolina People's Choice, Best of North Carolina and Charlotte Magazine Best of the Best Awards, the Daily Reflector Best Of Pitt County, the Fayetteville Community's Choice Awards and the 2025 Diamond Awards.

The difference for a supporter is scale of effort. A magazine poll asks for dozens of picks across many categories, while the weenie walk asks for a vote for a dog and then an invitation to a Sunday at Pineville Lake. Charlotte readers who also follow the city's newspaper and magazine ballots will find the pet vote smaller and more personal, since each entry is one owner's photograph and every vote is a friend, a neighbor or a fellow dog owner.

Building support for a dog's entry

The organizer's own text sets the tone: encourage friends and family to vote and to come to the walk. For a dog owner in Charlotte, that means sharing the entry link with neighbors and fellow owners well before the round ends. The rules page is the authority on anything beyond that.

Our guide to getting more votes online covers sharing methods for public ballots, and buy votes online describes the paid service. Charlotte Weenie Walk has said nothing about outside help in the text on file, and a crown cannot be promised by any vendor, this site's service page included.