Oregon Online Voting Contests

Bend Bulletin Athletes of the Week

One regional paper, one weekly ballot: the Bend Bulletin's boy-plus-girl athlete vote at bendbulletin.com/sports, covering Deschutes County high schools through the OSAA season. Free, public, no account, run by EO Media Group.

Oregon High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Oregon · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Statewide weekly fan-vote poll operated by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com, spotlighting standout Oregon OSAA high school athletes each sports season. Free, unlimited manual votes, poll closes Sunday at 11:59 pm PT.

Oregon High School Baseball Player of the Week

The High School on SI / SBLive Oregon Baseball Player of the Week is a statewide fan vote at si.com covering every OSAA classification, from 6A suburban programs down to 1A rural schools. The ballot typically carries 25–30 nominees, votes are unlimited, and the poll closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific each week of the March–June season.

Oregon High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

The High School on SI / SBLive Oregon Boys Basketball Player of the Week fan vote runs every week of the OSAA season, December through March. Dan Brood curates the statewide field from any classification, anyone can vote — but the ballot caps supporters at one vote every six hours, making campaign pacing matter in a way the football poll never does.

Oregon High School Football Player of the Week

The SBLive / SI Oregon Football Athlete of the Week: a statewide fan vote at si.com covering all OSAA classifications from 6A down to 1A 6-man. With 25–36 nominees per week, winning percentage — not raw count — is what separates a mobilized community from a split field. Poll closes every Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

Oregon High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week

The High School on SI / SBLive statewide fan vote for the best Oregon girls basketball performance of the week. One vote per six hours — not unlimited like the Oregon football poll — and it closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Dan Brood curates the 28-nominee statewide field each week from December through March.

Oregon High School Player of the Year

Statewide Oregon · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual end-of-season fan vote polls run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/oregon, selecting a sport-specific Oregon prep Player of the Year — separate from OSAA's coaches-panel awards. Free, unlimited manual votes; automated scripts disqualify the entry.

Oregon High School Softball Player of the Week

The SBLive / High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Oregon prep softball performance of the week. Editors nominate standout players from 6A down to 1A, anyone can vote with no account required, and the poll closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. — the same tight deadline that governs every SI Oregon sports ballot.

Oregon High School Wrestler of the Year

Statewide Oregon · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan-vote poll at si.com by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) naming Oregon's top boys and girls prep wrestlers. The 2025-26 poll closed April 22, 2026; candidates included Tommy Belding and Brody Buzzard. Free, unlimited manual votes; bots banned.

Register-Guard Boys Athlete of the Week

Eugene · The Register-Guard

The Register-Guard's weekly fan vote for the best male prep performance in the Eugene-Springfield area. Embedded on SecondStreet's platform, it covers football, soccer, basketball, and track depending on the season — and unlike the statewide SI polls, it closes Thursday at 11 a.m. Pacific, before most fans realize the window is open.

Salem Statesman Journal Boys Athlete of the Week

The Maps Credit Union Boys Athlete of the Week is a standalone weekly fan vote from the Salem Statesman Journal, run separately from the paper's girls ballot on the same SecondStreet platform. It draws multi-sport nominees from Marion and Polk county programs (Salem, Keizer, Silverton, Woodburn, Dallas, Independence, Monmouth) and closes 9 a.m. Thursday, hours ahead of most other Oregon weekly polls.

Statesman Journal Athlete of the Week

Salem · Statesman Journal / MAPS Credit Union

The Statesman Journal's weekly fan vote for the best high school athlete across Salem-Keizer. Run on the SecondStreet platform, sponsored by MAPS Credit Union, covering all sports year-round — and closing Thursday at noon PT, a full two to three days earlier than most Oregon weekly polls.

2024 Coast Weekend Photo Contest

The 2024 Coast Weekend Photo Contest is a public-vote photo ballot run by The Astorian, the EO Media Group newspaper serving the Oregon coast from Astoria. The ballot was hosted on Second Street and accepted votes from December 18, 2024 through January 13, 2025. Confirmed editions reach back to 2018, making this an annual coastal tradition. The 2024 round is now closed, so anyone planning an entry for the next round should watch CoastWeekend.com and the newspaper for the announcement. This page explains who runs the ballot, when each edition has run, how supporters vote, and which rules the organizer has left unpublished.

2025 Go! Eastern Oregon Readers' Choice Awards

The East Oregonian runs the Go! Eastern Oregon Readers' Choice Awards, a readers' choice ballot for the Pendleton, Oregon area hosted on Second Street. The 2025 cycle's combined nomination-and-voting ballot ran from December 11, 2025 through May 1, 2026, with the voting stage closing May 1, 2026. Editions are confirmed for 2024, 2025 and 2026. The category roster and any per-supporter vote rule are not printed with the listing, so check the live ballot.

2026 CCA - Best of Rogue Valley

The Rogue Valley Times runs the Best of Rogue Valley awards ballot on Second Street, with confirmed rounds in 2025 and 2026. The 2026 round opened June 1 and closed August 1, 2026. The listing does not print a category roster or a per-voter rule, so supporters and businesses should read the live ballot before each new cycle.

2026 CCA Best of Bend

The 2026 CCA Best of Bend is Bend, Oregon's community choice readers ballot, published by The Bulletin, the city's daily newspaper, and hosted on Second Street. Voting in the 2026 edition opened April 13 and closed July 11, 2026, and a 2025 edition ran on the same platform the spring before. Category lists, vote limits and eligibility wording are not published ahead of the ballot.

2027 Beaverton's Best

Beaverton's Best is the readers' choice ballot of the Beaverton Valley Times, a newspaper serving Beaverton, Oregon. The program runs on Second Street. The 2026 edition has run, and the 2027 edition is scheduled with dates already listed: January 22 to March 17, 2027. Which categories appear, and any per-supporter limit, is not published ahead of opening; readers confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

24Hillsboro'sBest

Hillsboro's Best is the readers' choice ballot the Hillsboro News-Times runs for its Oregon city. The 2025 cycle accepted nominations and votes from September 10 through November 10 on Second Street's hillsboro.secondstreetapp.com. A 2026 edition is live from August 29 to November 7. Residents nominate favorite places to eat, shop and more, then vote the shortlist down. Category details and voting rules are not published in advance.

Beaverton's Best

Beaverton · Beaverton Valley Times

Beaverton's Best has a single prior edition behind it, 2026, and a 2027 edition confirmed to open January 22 and run through March 17, still ahead as of this page rather than already underway. Beaverton, Oregon's own readers'-choice ballot is organized by the Beaverton Valley Times and hosted at beaverton.secondstreetapp.com on Second Street, folding nominating and voting into a single combined ballot. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Bend Magazine Readers' Choice Awards

Bend Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards is Central Oregon's annual reader-vote program, run online at bendmagazine.com/vote/ across four categories, dining, nightlife, shopping, and adventure, the last one a nod to the outdoor-recreation economy that sets Bend apart from most other city best-of ballots in the state.

Best of Eugene

Eugene Weekly's annual Best of Eugene reader poll, running online at vote.eugeneweekly.com across more than 100 categories spanning the city's restaurants, shops, arts, and civic life. Results are decided by direct public voting, distinct from CommunityVotes' separate Eugene Community's Choice Awards program run in the same city.

Best of Lake Oswego & West Linn

Lake Oswego Review runs Best of Lake Oswego & West Linn, a joint business-awards ballot spanning both Clackamas County cities at once, at communitynewspapers-lakeoswego.secondstreetapp.com, unlike the single-city ballots most other Oregon papers run. One confirmed edition backs this ballot, its window November 1, 2025 through January 6, 2026, since closed. Past that window, Lake Oswego Review keeps its category structure and its voting ceiling, if any, off the printed page; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Lake Oswego & West Linn 2026

The Lake Oswego Review stages a two-city recognition round covering Lake Oswego and West Linn together in Clackamas County, Oregon, on the Second Street platform. Two editions are on file, 2025 and 2026. The 2026 round accepted picks from November 1, 2025 through January 6, 2026 and has since closed.

Best of Portland

Willamette Week's annual Best of Portland readers' poll, run at bop.wweek.com across 150+ categories from coffee and bars to arts and goods and services, with a nomination round feeding public voting that closes June 17 in the 2026 cycle, and a results issue publishing July 22.

Best of Rogue Valley Community Choice Awards

Rogue Valley Times runs the 2026 CCA - Best of Rogue Valley, a combined nomination-and-voting ballot on Second Street at roguevalleytimes.secondstreetapp.com. Archived evidence puts the total at two editions, 2025 and 2026, and the current listing closed August 1 after opening June 1, 2026. Oregon is the only geography the organizer's own page ties to this ballot, no city or county appears on it. A category breakdown and any per-voter limit are unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of the Mid-Valley Community's Choice Awards

Annual Statesman Journal / Gannett readers-choice business awards for Salem and the Mid-Valley, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform with nominations, a finalist ballot, and public voting across 150+ categories.

Best of the Nest

Source Weekly's Bend Nest publishes an annual readers' poll for Bend's best family and children's businesses, voted on at bendsource.com and published in the Bend Nest summer issue. Confirm current categories, nomination windows, and any vote limits directly on the live page each cycle before planning a campaign around a specific business type.

Best of Wilsonville

Wilsonville, Oregon, along Interstate 5 in Clackamas County, is the market for Best of Wilsonville, a Second Street ballot run by the Wilsonville Spokesman. The platform lists the current listing as "Best of Wilsonville 26," a combined nomination-and-vote window confirmed open July 13 through September 14, 2026. This is the program's first confirmed edition; no category list or vote cap has been published, and whether the ballot returns next year is not yet stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Calendar Your Major

Pacific University puts every student's field of study to a public vote in Forest Grove, Oregon. The Calendar Your Major ballot ran in November 2025 and again in 2026, tied to election season on campus. Pacific runs the vote on its own pacificu.edu domain and pairs it with an in-person session at the Washburne University Center, while leaving the cycle's precise dates, the ballot's category list and any per-voter rules unprinted.

Coast Weekend Readers' Choice Awards

Coast Weekend's annual reader ballot spanning Astoria, Warrenton, and Clatsop County, Oregon, across the Columbia River into the Long Beach Peninsula, Washington. One north coast paper, two states, one ballot.

Eugene Community's Choice Awards

Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business awards for Eugene and Springfield, Oregon, running an open nomination round into a public vote across 130+ categories with 400+ local businesses recognized each year.

Go! Eastern Oregon Readers' Choice

East Oregonian runs the Go! Eastern Oregon Readers' Choice Awards for its Eastern Oregon coverage area under the Go! Eastern Oregon brand, voted on the Second Street contest platform at eastoregonian.secondstreetapp.com. Three confirmed editions span 2024 through 2026; despite the "2025" title, the combined nomination-and-voting ballot ran from December 11, 2025 through May 1, 2026. Past that window, what's published names no category roster and sets no per-voter cap; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for either one.

Hillsboro News-Times Hillsboro's Best

Hillsboro · Hillsboro News-Times

Hillsboro, Oregon's weekly paper, the Hillsboro News-Times, runs Hillsboro's Best on the Second Street platform at hillsboro.secondstreetapp.com. Two confirmed editions back the program, 2025 and 2026, and the current ballot has been open since August 29, 2026, running through November 7, 2026. Pamplin Media owns the Hillsboro News-Times, and its ballot invites Hillsboro shoppers to name their own favorite local businesses. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

News-Review Athlete of the Week

The News-Review, the Oregon newspaper behind nrtoday.com, runs a public-vote Athlete of the Week balloted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/14367466. Confirmed editions cover 2023 and 2024. The Sept. 9-14 ballot is marked closed. Category details, vote limits and future dates are not printed on the ballot, so readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Now Best Of Is Now Live

Southern Oregon Magazine runs a best-of readers' ballot for its home region in Oregon, hosted on the magazine's own website rather than an outside contest platform. The 2026 cycle opened for voting on August 25, 2026 and runs until approx October 19th. The published rules allow one vote per category per 24 hour period. The magazine does not print a category list for the ballot, and the announcement page gives no other rules text.

OPCA Annual Awards of Excellence

The OPCA Annual Awards of Excellence is a public-vote honors program run by the Oregon Primary Care Association from its own website. Nominations open in January, and winners are celebrated during OPCA's Annual Conference. Confirmed editions cover 2024 and 2026, and the organizer has recognized community health center innovators since 1988.

PNW Weddings Excellence Awards

The PNW Weddings Excellence Awards is a public-vote ballot run by PNW Weddings, a Pacific Northwest wedding magazine, on its own website. Finalists across wedding categories gather support from couples and the wider community. Confirmed editions ran in 2024 and 2025, with the 2025 voting window closing on April 14, 2025.

Portland Mercury Pizza Week

Portland Mercury's annual Pizza Week pairs a special slice from participating Portland pizzerias with a public voting element at portlandmercury.com. The confirmed 2026 run was April 20-26; no published category list, vote cap, or standalone ballot page accompanies that window.

Portland Monthly Dough Town Showdown

Portland Monthly's Dough Town Showdown, a bracket-style public vote pitting Portland pizzerias head-to-head round by round rather than on one open ballot, hosted at pdxmonthly.com with the most recent bracket published in September 2025 and no fixed annual schedule confirmed for the next one.

School Of Medicine Graduate Studies School Medicine Honors And Awards

Oregon Health & Science University runs the School of Medicine Honors and Awards from its own ohsu.edu domain, as an annual call for nominations with a public vote attached. Confirmed editions cover 2025 and 2026. For the 2026 cycle, every Graduate Studies nomination is due April 15, 2026, sent by email as a single PDF, and the ballot allows one vote per person per category.

Snowplow Naming Contest

The Portland Bureau of Transportation invites Portlanders to name its snowplow fleet through an annual Snowplow Naming Contest. PBOT uses ranked-choice voting to pick the top five names each cycle, and confirmed editions ran in 2025 and 2026. The February 2025 round closed at the end of that month, with drivers helping reveal the winning names. Day-level dates and any per-person vote limit go unannounced between rounds, so check the bureau's own contest page when a new round opens.

Southern Oregon Magazine Readers' Choice Best Of

Southern Oregon Magazine's own annual Readers' Choice Best Of, an online vote covering the Medford and Ashland area at southernoregonmagazine.com, with results published in the magazine's Winter edition each January. Independently run, not tied to Gannett's YourChoiceAwards network or any daily newspaper in the region.

The 6A Pacific Conference Player of the Year

This page covers the 6A Pacific Conference Player of the Year, a public-vote award for high school sport in Oregon's largest classification. Pacific is the organizer named for the program, and Crowdsignal hosts the ballot at poll.fm/16687206. The confirmed editions are 2023 and 2026, with voting each cycle falling between November and February. The ballot asks a single question and lists nominees by school.

The Astorian Coast Weekend Photo Contest

The Astorian runs the Coast Weekend Photo Contest, a public photo ballot for Astoria, Oregon, on Second Street at eopubco.secondstreetapp.com. Seven confirmed editions span 2018 through 2024, and the latest window opened December 18 and closed January 13. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Barky Bunch Rescue Calendar Contest

Oregon City · Barky Bunch Rescue

Barky Bunch Rescue, based in Oregon City, Oregon, runs its Calendar Contest at gogophotocontest.com/barkybunchrescue on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. Two confirmed editions cover 2024 and 2025; the 2025 round opened 8:00 AM Eastern on Friday, October 11, 2024, and closed at 11:59:59 PM Eastern on Friday, November 1, 2024. Each vote is a $1, tax-deductible donation with a $5 minimum, spent to place a dog's photo as Pet of the Month or Cover Pup; the rest is confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Bend Magazine Local's List

The Bend Magazine's annual Local's List, an online readers' poll at thebendmag.com/locals-list/ covering local businesses, restaurants, and people across Central Oregon, a structure distinct from Bend Magazine's separate four-category Readers' Choice Awards, with winners published in the July print issue rather than on a live results page.

The Bulletin Best of Bend Community Choice Awards

Bend, Oregon's 2026 CCA Best of Bend runs through The Bulletin, the city's daily newspaper covering Central Oregon, on Second Street at bulletin.secondstreetapp.com. Archived evidence shows two confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026, the most recent closing July 11 after opening April 13, 2026. A category breakdown and any per-voter limit are unpublished for this ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The News-Review Readers' Choice Awards

The News-Review's annual reader ballot for Roseburg and Douglas County, covering local business categories from timber country to the Umpqua Valley. One SecondStreet ballot, one paper, no second Douglas County outlet running a rival vote.

Vote: Who should be SBLive's Oregon High School Team of the Week

SBLive runs a weekly public vote that names an Oregon High School Team of the Week. Ballots appear via poll.fm on Crowdsignal, and confirmed editions have appeared across 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. A representative ballot, dated 1/27/2025, listed school teams from a range of sports and has since closed. Supporter voting is free on the live poll. Exact window dates for any given week are not printed in advance here, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Heartland 60 Years of Pawsome Pet Photo Calendar Contest

Heartland Humane Shelter and Care runs a pet photo calendar ballot hosted on GoGo Photo Contest for Corvallis, Oregon. Voting runs online from noon Pacific Time on September 1, 2026 until 6:00 PM Pacific Time on September 24, 2026, with votes priced at one dollar each. The organizer's own listing describes the contest as running September 1st through September 26th 2026. Whether the program returns after this first confirmed edition is a question readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.