18 contests with public online voting in North Dakota — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
Statewide North Dakota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)
Free statewide weekly fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/north-dakota, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated). Open to all NDHSAA schools across Classes AAA, AA, A, and B. Voting is free with no per-vote cap; automated scripts trigger athlete disqualification.
Statewide North Dakota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)
Annual statewide fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/north-dakota, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated). Distinct from the weekly Athlete of the Week poll, this is a single once-a-year ballot covering NDHSAA member schools statewide, decided purely by fan vote count.
BEK TV asks its North Dakota viewers to vote it Best Local TV Station and its hosts Best TV Personality in a public ballot carried on the BEK Beacon page at bek.coop. The current cycle's nomination round ran in July 2026, with voting opening July 22, and the previous year's voting window ran through August 2025. Supporters may vote twice every day, once online and once by text, until the contest closes.
Best of the Best – Best of the Midwest is an Upper Midwest readers-choice platform at bestofthemidwest.com that lists North Dakota businesses across multiple cities, Fargo, Bismarck, and Jamestown named specifically, on one shared ballot domain instead of a single-city page, with South Dakota communities also eligible under the same brand.
The Grand Forks Herald's readers-choice ballot across 130+ categories spanning restaurants, retail, health care, and services, published by Forum Communications for the Grand Forks metro.
The Jamestown Sun's annual readers-choice ballot for Stutsman County and the surrounding Jamestown-area trade zone, now in its 17th year, with winners printed in the Best of the Midwest magazine insert distributed across Forum Communications papers.
The Minot Daily News's Best of the Best readers-choice ballot, run on the Ogden Newspapers promo portal with a nominate-then-vote structure and daily voting once the finalist round opens, now past two decades in the Minot, North Dakota market.
Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best readers-choice ballot runs on Lee Enterprises' bismarcktribune.secondstreetapp.com platform, a separate program from bismarck.communityvotes.com's CommunityVotes Bismarck. The 2025 nomination window closed June 25, confirmed on the Tribune's Facebook page, and a full winners PDF went up after the 2024 cycle.
CommunityVotes Bismarck is Metroland Media's annual readers-choice program for North Dakota's capital market, run at bismarck.communityvotes.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed active; a category list, vote cap, and exact nomination or voting dates have not surfaced anywhere public for this guide.
CommunityVotes Fargo is Metroland Media's annual readers-choice program for North Dakota's largest market, run at fargo.communityvotes.com. The confirmed 2026 nomination window runs February 15 through June 7; whatever voting stage follows nominations has not been made public anywhere this page could locate.
CommunityVotes Grand Forks, Metroland Media's annual readers-choice business awards for the Grand Forks metro, runs at grandforks.communityvotes.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed live; no fixed nomination window, category list, or vote cap has surfaced publicly, so the live site remains the only reliable source each cycle.
CommunityVotes Minot is Metroland Media's annual readers-choice business program at minot.communityvotes.com. The 2025 cycle is confirmed; 2026 is expected to follow the same annual pattern but isn't independently confirmed live. No category list, nomination window, or vote cap has surfaced publicly for this specific market.
A 130+ category readers-choice ballot for Fargo-Moorhead: nominate, advance to finalists, then a fall vote that has topped 225,000 ballots in a single cycle.
Listeners of Cool 98.7 FM in Bismarck, North Dakota are asked to vote Municipal Ballpark, home of the Bismarck Larks, as the best summer collegiate ballpark. The ballot is hosted at KACL's cool987fm.com. Edition years run from 2018 through 2026 with a gap in 2021, the voting window falls between June and August, and one station page set a deadline of noon on June 27th, 2017.
KLXX, a talk radio station serving North Dakota, runs a giving-season campaign called Now For A 35 Days Of Giving on its own website. Listeners nominate honorees, and the public then votes to decide who receives the Grand Gift. The posted ballot window runs from Saturday, November 25th through Sunday, December 3rd, and the page invites each visitor back every three hours to vote again. Area businesses lend their names as sponsors.
Living Magazine runs the Readers' Choice Awards, an annual Best Of ballot that asks readers across its North Dakota communities which local businesses deserve the title. Voting takes place on the magazine's own website rather than a third-party polling service. Confirmed editions ran in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the 2025 winners page is the address currently live.
Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota's Hot 97.5 Cutest Pet contest is an annual pet-photo vote run by the radio station KKCT at hot975fm.com. Eight confirmed editions span 2018 through 2026. An archived description of the format lays out two rounds: nominations narrow the field to five finalists, then a first round runs October 1 through October 8, and a second round for the top five closes October 15. No year is attached to that description. Whether a category roster or a per-supporter voting limit exists is likewise unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Now For Bismarck Mandans Cutest Pet is an annual pet photo vote run by the Bismarck, North Dakota radio station KKCT, whose ballot lives at hot975fm.com. Confirmed editions run from 2018 through 2026, with no 2021 cycle. A two-round format sends the top five pets forward, with round one closing the morning of October 8 and round two closing at midnight on October 15.
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