Bucks County Community's Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

Four confirmed editions: what the Bucks County ballot actually shows

2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. Four separate editions of the Community's Choice Awards Showcase, each published at its own year-numbered address off phillyburbs.gannettcontests.com, make up the confirmed run for Bucks County. The most recent one closed February 28, 2026.

PhillyBurbs.com is the Bucks County Courier Times' Gannett-owned news site, and the ballot itself runs on the Second Street platform rather than on PhillyBurbs.com's own news pages. Past the confirmed four-year run and the 2026 close date, what's actually published goes quiet: no category roster, no vote cap, no confirmed date for a fifth edition.

Treat the last two rows honestly. A four-year run is enough history to call this program annual, but not enough to guess at what a page doesn't say; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

A Gannett newsroom's own ballot, sharing an address with unrelated sweepstakes

phillyburbs.gannettcontests.com is not a single-purpose site built only for this award. The Gannett contest platform behind PhillyBurbs.com also runs straightforward sweepstakes there at other points in the year, entries with no connection to the Community's Choice Awards Showcase name or its Bucks County ballot.

Why that separation matters for a Bucks County nomination

A supporter who lands on phillyburbs.gannettcontests.com outside the Showcase's own window is as likely to find an unrelated sweepstakes entry as the readers'-choice ballot itself. The safest habit is going straight to the current year's own Community's Choice Awards Showcase address rather than browsing the domain and guessing which listing is the right one.

That same domain structure is common across Gannett's local news sites, so a business used to a different Gannett market's ballot should still check Bucks County's own page rather than assume the two share dates or rules.

Levittown, and the rest of the Bucks County readership this ballot serves

PhillyBurbs.com is headquartered in Levittown, one of Bucks County's largest planned communities and a hub for the Courier Times' own coverage area. The confirmed readership spans Bucks County generally, with Eastern Montgomery County named alongside it in PhillyBurbs.com's own description of its coverage.

Doylestown, the county seat, sits further north and carries a more historic, government-centered business district than Levittown's retail corridors. Newtown, Bristol and Quakertown round out Bucks County's spread of commercial centers, each with its own base of regular shoppers who read the same Courier Times coverage.

Nothing in the confirmed page splits eligibility by town within the county. A business in any of these communities competes on the same Community's Choice Awards Showcase ballot as one in Levittown itself, since PhillyBurbs.com's stated readership runs across the whole county rather than one neighborhood.

Where this ballot sits among Pennsylvania's other readers'-choice programs

PhillyBurbs.com's Showcase is one of several readers'-choice ballots running across Pennsylvania. Each of the six below keeps its own sign-in, its own set of categories, and its own separate outcome, tallied on its own platform.

A Bucks County business chasing recognition in more than one of these carries a separate nomination and a separate deadline for each, since a strong showing on PhillyBurbs.com's own ballot settles nothing on any of the other six.

Planning around a closed window, not a live one

The 2026 edition's ballot already closed on February 28, 2026. A Bucks County business reading this now is planning for whatever edition comes next, not campaigning inside an open window, so the smartest first move is bookmarking phillyburbs.gannettcontests.com and watching for the next year-numbered address to publish.

Once a new edition opens, the surest lever left is a plain one: put the current address in front of real Bucks County customers and ask more than one time across the window, not only near its close. Is buying votes legal separates a defensible push from a risky one before spending toward this ballot. Buying votes online lays out what paid support typically adds on a Second Street ballot specifically, and award-vote campaign planning is built for exactly this readers'-choice format.

None of that changes what only phillyburbs.gannettcontests.com can settle: the open date of the next edition, its categories, and any vote cap, all readable once that edition actually publishes. Nothing from the 2026 edition should be assumed to hold for whichever one follows it.