Virginia Online Voting Contests

Virginia High School Athlete of the Week

Richmond · Richmond Times-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises)

Free weekly fan poll at timesdispatch.com, run by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises), recognising standout Virginia prep athletes across all three VHSL sports seasons. Readers vote for nominees drawn from schools statewide — one vote per device per hour, no account required.

Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Week

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Weekly fan vote from High School on SI (formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming the Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Week every week from February through May. Free to vote, no account needed. Exact close day and any vote cap aren't published in advance. Check the live article each week.

Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual season-end fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, recognising the top VHSL baseball player statewide. Editors nominate candidates from all six VHSL classifications; fans vote with no per-vote cap until the stated deadline at the end of the spring season.

Virginia High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Weekly fan vote from High School on SI (si.com/high-school/virginia, formerly SBLive Sports), naming a Virginia boys basketball Player of the Week throughout the VHSL season, November through March. SI's Virginia staff sets a new nominee field each week; fans vote free, no account required, and neither cap nor close time is published in advance.

Virginia High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL boys basketball player once the postseason ends. SI's Virginia staff compiles the field; fans vote free through the embedded widget, no account required. Exact dates and any vote limit are not published in advance; confirm both on the live article each cycle.

Virginia High School Football Player of the Week (Roanoke Times / Timesland)

Roanoke · The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times runs SW Virginia's weekly reader-vote poll for high school football Player of the Week during the regular season, covering the Timesland area — Roanoke, Salem, Bedford, Pulaski County, Craig County, Botetourt, Alleghany, and surrounding Blue Ridge communities. The ballot closes Tuesday at noon, and a reader's majority — Brody Dawyot of Glenvar won Week 3 of 2024 with exactly 50.7% — is harder to build than it sounds in a six-name field.

Virginia High School Football Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL football player. The programme runs two ballots: a preseason defensive Player of the Year vote confirmed for 2025, plus the traditional end-of-season vote, both with no per-vote cap and open to fans statewide.

Virginia High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL girls basketball player after the postseason ends in March. It runs on the same hub as the boys ballot but as its own separate vote. Free to enter, no account, no published archive of past winners.

Virginia High School Player of the Year

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

Season-end fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, covering every VHSL sport and classification across all of Virginia. No per-vote cap; polls close at the stated deadline. Separate sport-specific polls — including football POY and baseball POY — run annually for Virginia prep athletes statewide.

Virginia High School Softball Player of the Week

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Weekly fan vote from High School on SI (formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming the Virginia High School Softball Player of the Week every week from February through May. Free to vote, no account needed. Exact close day and any vote cap aren't published in advance. Check the live article each week.

Virginia High School Softball Player of the Year

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

Season-end girls softball fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia. Editors shortlist standout VHSL pitchers, catchers, and position players after the spring season; fans vote online statewide with no per-hour cap until the stated deadline. Annual, free, covers all VHSL classifications.

Virginia High School Volleyball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) recognizing Virginia's top VHSL volleyball player each fall, published at si.com/high-school/virginia. Nominees are drawn from all six classification tiers and every VHSL region. No account or per-vote cap; the public decides once nominations open after the season ends.

WHSV Fast Break Friday

Harrisonburg · WHSV TV3 Harrisonburg (Gray Media, ABC affiliate)

A weekly winter fan vote from WHSV TV3 Harrisonburg (Gray Media, ABC affiliate) that puts three nominated high school basketball plays, not players, on a Friday ballot during the November-through-March season. The sports desk posts the field at whsv.com/sports; anyone can vote at no cost, and there is no sibling ballot anywhere in the state built around a single highlight instead of a season-long stat line.

WTVR RVA Sports Awards

Richmond · WTVR CBS 6 Richmond (Nexstar Media Group)

The annual Richmond-region sports awards fan vote run by WTVR CBS 6 (Nexstar), culminating in a ceremony at the Altria Theater in Richmond. Fans vote free online across categories including Female Athlete of the Year, Male Athlete of the Year, Team of the Year, Youth Athlete of the Year, Youth Team of the Year, Fan of the Year, Moment of the Year, Event Impact of the Year, and Community Champion.

Alumni Participate Awards And Recognition

Bridgewater College invites its graduates and friends to honor alumni through the Awards And Recognition program on the college's own website. The ballot recognizes career success and community service, and the college asks supporters to nominate those who embody the Eagle spirit. Edition years on file are 2024, 2025 and 2026, with voting falling in October. The college leaves exact dates, award categories and any voting cap off its page, so read the live nomination info before taking part.

Annual People's Choice Awards

The Annual People's Choice Awards let readers across Virginia pick favorite books by Virginia authors and on Virginia topics. The Library of Virginia runs the ballot on its own site, with the 2026 voting window open June 1 through July 15. Winners are honored at the Virginia Literary Awards night on Sept. 19, 2026. The program has run since 2004, and 2025 and 2026 stand as its confirmed edition years.

Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue 12th Annual AGPR Calendar Photo Contest

Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue, a Great Pyrenees dog rescue headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, runs its 12th Annual AGPR Calendar Photo Contest on the GoGo Photo Contest service. The 2026 entry and voting window ran from Monday, June 22 at 12:00:01 AM Eastern Time to Sunday, July 26 at 8:59:59 PM Eastern Time. Votes cost one dollar each as a donation, and the top vote-getter earns the cover of the 2027 calendar. No category list appears on the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best & Worst 2026

Richmond magazine invites readers across Richmond, Virginia to share their best and worst picks in its 39th annual survey. The ballot sits on richmondmagazine.com and voting is open through April 27 at 11 p.m. Businesses, organizations and individuals are encouraged to use the magazine's social media toolkit to rally their followers. This page collects what the survey's own page states, what the publisher has left unpublished, and how the ballot compares with other Virginia reader-vote programs.

Best C Ville Now Open

Best of C-VILLE is the annual readers' choice ballot run by C-VILLE Weekly, the Charlottesville, Virginia newspaper at c-ville.com. The current cycle asks readers to vote the best of the best into the winners' circle at c-ville.com/vote through midnight on Saturday, July 2. Confirmed editions appear for 2016 and 2026, and the publisher describes the poll as an annual event with a nominations round before voting.

Best C Ville Open

C-VILLE Weekly, the Charlottesville newspaper, runs Best C Ville Open, the nominations-and-voting entry point for its Best of C-VILLE readers' choice program. The ballot is served from the publisher's own domain at c-ville.com, and confirmed editions are on file for 2016 and 2026. The August window, the category roster and any per-supporter limit go unstated on the stored page, so supporters should read the live form before planning a push.

Best Falls Church Summer Program

Where do Falls Church supporters vote in the Best Falls Church Summer Program? On the Falls Church News-Press site at fcnp.com, inside the paper's Best of Falls Church Reader Vote. Confirmed editions ran in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2026, with the voting window falling between June and August. The 2016 ballot placed City of Falls Church Recreation & Parks first, with Creative Cauldron Camps, Congressional Camp, Lee Graham Swim/Dive Teams and VIPS Concerts in the Park as runners-up.

Best Home Experts Poll

Northern Virginia Magazine asks readers across Northern Virginia, Virginia to name the region's best home experts in more than 20 fields, from architects and handymen to movers and painters. The current poll closes Friday, July 18 at 11:59 p.m. Voting happens on northernvirginiamag.com itself, and editions have been documented for 2020 through 2025. Per-supporter limits and eligibility terms are not printed with the ballot.

Best Home Experts Poll Online Media Toolkit

Northern Virginia Magazine runs the Best Home Experts Poll Online Media Toolkit as the promotional companion to its reader poll on home service professionals. The 2025 poll carried a printed deadline of Friday, July 18 at 11:59 p.m. The toolkit page tells supporters the poll is open and supplies shareable assets so businesses can gather votes while the window lasts.

Best of Arlington

Arlington · Arlington Magazine

Annual Arlington Magazine readers-choice survey for Arlington, Virginia businesses, with 70+ categories, summer public voting, and winners published in the magazine's January/February issue.

Best of Ashburn (Ashburn Magazine)

Ashburn Magazine runs Best of Ashburn, a Virginia readers'-choice business ballot with three confirmed editions on the page: 2020, 2023, and 2024. Voting is conducted online each February. Past that, the page publishes no category roster, no vote cap, and no date for a fourth edition; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of C-VILLE 2013

Best of C-VILLE 2013 is the readers' choice ballot C-VILLE Weekly ran for Charlottesville, Virginia. Readers nominated more than 480 favorites in the primaries, then voted finalists into the winners' circle until midnight on Sunday, June 30. The winners' issue reached stands on Tuesday, August 20. The ballot is hosted at c-ville.com itself, and the current cycle's dates and rules are not printed ahead of time.

Best of Charlottesville

Charlottesville · C-VILLE Weekly

C-VILLE Weekly's annual Best of Charlottesville readers' poll, run at bestof.c-ville.com/2026 and confirmed active across both the 2025 and 2026 cycles, covering Charlottesville, Virginia and the surrounding Albemarle County market.

Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine

Coastal Virginia Magazine's (CoVa Mag) readers-choice survey for the Hampton Roads region, with the 2026 final round confirmed live at bestof.coastalvirginiamag.com. The category list, vote cap, and exact dates simply haven't surfaced anywhere public yet, so confirm each on the live site every cycle.

Best of NoVA Readers Poll

Northern Virginia Magazine's annual readers poll at northernvirginiamag.com/best-of-nova-readers-poll/, confirmed active for both the 2025 and 2026 cycles, covering the shared Arlington, Fairfax, Alexandria, Loudoun, and Prince William readership as one regional ballot rather than the county-level programs Arlington Magazine and InsideNoVa each run separately nearby.

Best of Prince William

Prince William County · InsideNoVA (formerly Potomac Local)

InsideNoVA's annual Prince William County readers-choice awards, spanning 194 categories, with nomination followed by a full April public-voting window and winners printed in the June 26 newspaper edition.

Best Of Readers' Choice Awards

Virginia Media runs the Best Of Readers' Choice Awards, a public-vote business contest for the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. Its confirmed edition years are 2023, 2024 and 2026. The 2026 voting window runs June 1 through June 30, and voting ends Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 11:59pm. Everything sits on the publisher's own domain, not a separate voting platform.

Best of Richmond

Richmond · Richmond Magazine

Richmond Magazine's readers-choice awards program at richmondmagazine.com/best-of-richmond, confirmed active for the 2025 and 2026 cycles. Nobody has yet published a category list, voting window, or results venue for it, so this page states plainly what's known and what isn't.

Best of Richmond Downtown

Venture Richmond's annual Best of Downtown readers-choice program for Richmond, Virginia businesses, published as a news post at venturerichmond.com and confirmed active in 2025; the category list, vote cap, and dates aren't public, so check the live page each cycle.

Best of Roanoke

Roanoke · The Roanoker Magazine

The Roanoker Magazine's annual Best of Roanoke readers-choice awards, with contest details posted at theroanoker.com/best and voting handled on a separate address, vote.theroanoker.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed active; category list, vote cap, and close date are not yet public and should be confirmed on the live site.

Best of Smith Mountain Lake

Unlike the statewide BroadwayWorld theater awards also run in Virginia, Best of Smith Mountain Lake stays local: The Roanoke Times operates it on the Second Street polling platform at roanoke.secondstreetapp.com, covering the Smith Mountain Lake area near Roanoke rather than the whole state. Three rounds are confirmed, 2019 through 2021, the most recently documented one running August 1 through October 21 with a once-a-day vote limit across the categories the ballot listed. Nothing published points to a round after 2021; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming this year's contest looks the same.

Best of Virginia

Virginia Living Magazine's statewide reader-choice awards, split into five regional sub-ballots across 100+ categories, with winners announced each May.

Best Salons And Spas Poll

Northern Virginia Magazine runs the Best Salons and Spas Poll, an annual reader survey the magazine hosts itself at northernvirginiamag.com. Readers nominate and vote for the salons, day spas and med spas they love across Northern Virginia. The current survey closes Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. The magazine has not printed a per-supporter vote limit or a full category roster, so the live form is what a supporter should read before campaigning.

Best Summer Camps (Northern Virginia Magazine)

Best Summer Camps, run by Northern Virginia Magazine at northernvirginiamag.com, asks Northern Virginia families to vote for their favorite camps. The confirmed 2026 poll closes Friday, August 29 at 11:59 p.m. Three confirmed years anchor this poll so far, 2021, 2022 and 2026. Exactly when the 2026 poll opened, which categories it sorts camps into, and any limit on repeat voting go unstated on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best Summer Camps Online Media Toolkit

Northern Virginia Magazine runs a public vote that decides its Best Summer Camps list. Readers visit a page on the magazine's own site during a summer window and back the camps they want recognized. Unlike the magazine's regional readers poll, this ballot is aimed at families choosing a camp in Northern Virginia. The 2026 vote stays open until Friday, August 29 at 11:59 p.m. Editions are confirmed for 2021, 2022 and 2026, and the methodology page describes the list as the product of an annual reader poll.

Best Summer Camps Readers Poll

Northern Virginia Magazine runs the Best Summer Camps Readers Poll each summer, and it behaves differently from the newspaper readers-choice contests around it. Parents enter and vote for a favorite camp rather than choosing from a printed ballot of local businesses. Confirmed editions run from 2019 through 2025, and the voting window sits in the June to August stretch, with the magazine's own page carrying the closing deadline. This reference page collects the ballot address, the mechanic, the edition history and the rules gaps in one place.

Best Worst Dining Nightlife

Richmond magazine's dining and nightlife readers' ballot, published by richmondmagazine.com in the Richmond metro area of Virginia. The 2015 cycle's winners article ran on July 31, 2015, and confirmed editions appear in 2015 and in each year from 2019 up to 2026. The vote runs at richmondmagazine.com itself, with no third-party polling service involved. Day-level dates and vote rules for the current cycle are not printed on the page.

Bestof

Best of Ashburn is a public-vote best-of ballot for Ashburn, in Loudoun County, Virginia, run by the publisher behind ashburnmagazine.com on its own website. Confirmed editions ran in 2020, 2023 and 2024, with the 2023 balloting conducted online in February. That survey drew 79,657 votes and more than 3,000 businesses, individuals and organizations received votes. Exact window dates and the following edition are not printed ahead of time.

Bestoffc2016

Falls Church, Virginia's Bestoffc2016 page tracks the Best of Falls Church reader vote, a best-of ballot the Falls Church News-Press runs on its own website at fcnp.com. The 2026 cycle carries a printed schedule: nominations ran June 25 through July 12, and final voting runs July 16 through August 10 at midnight. Winners appear in a special BEST OF FALLS CHURCH edition of the paper on August 25. Confirmed editions reach back to 2013.

Bestoffc2018finals

The Falls Church News Press runs the Best of Falls Church reader ballot for Falls Church, Virginia, on its own site at fcnp.com. The 2018 final round page asked readers to pick favorites across a long list of local categories, with voting closing August 20 at 5 p.m. and winners featured in a special BEST OF FALLS CHURCH edition on August 30. Confirmed editions run in 2018, 2019 and 2026. Nomination and opening dates for later cycles never appear on the survey page itself, so read the live survey before planning a push.

BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual Central Virginia theater fan vote, hosted at broadwayworld.com/norfolk/awards/ under the platform's Norfolk market segment despite the Central Virginia name, with the 2025 cycle's winners published in January 2026.

BroadwayWorld NOVA Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual Northern Virginia theater fan vote, hosted at broadwayworld.com/novaregion/awards/ as the platform's Regional Awards series, with categories, nominees, and dates unpublished here; confirm the current cycle directly on the live page.

Carroll News Best Christmas Lights Display

Hillsville · Carroll News

Two confirmed editions, 2024 and 2025, make up what Carroll News has run of its Best Christmas Lights Display, a photo-voting contest at carrollnews.secondstreetapp.com for Hillsville, Virginia. The most recent round closed December 29, 2025, after opening December 2. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Carroll News Gemini Awards

Virginia's Carroll News Gemini Awards is an annual readers-choice ballot run by the newspaper Carroll News on the Second Street platform at carrollnews.secondstreetapp.com. Five editions are confirmed: 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with 2022 the one year missing from that span. The 2026 ballot opened January 21 and closed February 19, already finished for this cycle. A category list and any vote-cap or eligibility rule are not published; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

Carroll News Gemini Awards 2026

The Carroll News Gemini Awards 2026 is a readers-choice ballot run by the Carroll News, a weekly newspaper based in Hillsville, Virginia. Voting ran on the Second Street platform from January 21 through February 19, 2026, and that cycle has closed. The program has confirmed editions in 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Category details and any voting rules should be read on the live ballot when the next cycle opens.

CommunityVotes Chesapeake

Three confirmed editions, 2023, 2024 and 2026, back CommunityVotes Chesapeake, Virginia's readers'-choice business ballot from a local CommunityVotes affiliate at chesapeake.communityvotes.com. The 2026 voting stage ran through August, and the page already shows results and thanks supporters for taking part. Category names and any per-supporter vote limit are missing from the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Newport News

CommunityVotes runs CommunityVotes Newport News, a readers'-choice business ballot for Newport News, Virginia, hosted at newportnews.communityvotes.com through a local affiliate. Editions are confirmed for 2023, 2025 and 2026, with nothing published naming a 2024 edition for this particular market. The 2026 voting stage closed in August, and the page already shows results with a note thanking participants. Category names and any per-supporter vote limit are missing from the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Norfolk VA

Norfolk, Virginia is home to CommunityVotes Norfolk, run by a local CommunityVotes partner. The program's page confirms two prior rounds, 2024 and 2026, and by August 2026 the site had already posted results and named winners for the current cycle. Categories and a per-voter limit sit outside anything published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before the next round opens.

CommunityVotes Roanoke

Where do Roanoke, Virginia supporters go to back a favorite business? roanoke.communityvotes.com, operated through a local CommunityVotes partner. Two editions back this ballot, 2023 and 2026, and by August 2026 the page had already swapped its ballot for a results announcement naming winners. Neither a category list nor a per-voter rule is published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Suffolk VA

Suffolk, Virginia hosts CommunityVotes Suffolk, a ballot a local partner runs on behalf of the national CommunityVotes network at suffolkva.communityvotes.com. Three confirmed editions stand behind it, 2023, 2025 and 2026, skipping 2024 entirely. The most recent cycle's August 2026 voting window has already closed, and the page currently shows results rather than an open ballot. Neither the categories a business can enter nor any limit on repeat voting appear anywhere on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Progress Charlottesville Readers' Choice

Charlottesville · Daily Progress (Lee Enterprises)

Daily Progress's annual Charlottesville readers' choice ballot at dailyprogress.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2025/, run separately from C-VILLE Weekly's own Best of Charlottesville poll. Categories, vote caps, and exact dates are not yet public; confirm each on the live ballot page every cycle.

FFGW 2027 Fabulous Feline Calendar Contest

The FFGW 2027 Fabulous Feline Calendar Contest is a photo-and-vote fundraiser run by the Feline Foundation of Greater Washington, a Virginia rescue whose postal address sits in Reston. Supporters submit a cat photo on GoGo Photo Contest and the public votes for the pictures that fill the 2027 calendar. The vote ends 9 PM Eastern, Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The page below gathers what the organizer publishes, what it does not, and how a supporter takes part.

MileSplit Virginia Girls Performer of the Week

Virginia track and field and cross country families vote each week in the MileSplit Virginia Girls Performer of the Week poll. MileSplit Virginia, the MileStat.com branch of the national network, posts the ballot at Crowdsignal's poll.fm, and the 2024 and 2025 seasons each ran a series of weekly spring ballots. This page explains who runs the vote, when editions have run, how a supporter casts a ballot, and what the organizer has not published.

News Leader male athlete of the year

The News Leader male athlete of the year award is decided by reader voting in a poll run by The News Leader, a Virginia newspaper, with the ballot sitting on Crowdsignal under its poll.fm service. Confirmed editions ran in 2022 and 2026, and the 2026 ballot closed on Monday, July 6 at 5 p.m. The closed ballot published a full tally by school, with a Riverheads nominee finishing first. The opening date for the next cycle has not been announced.

Our Golden

The Flat Hat, a Virginia newspaper, invites public voting on its Our Golden ballot each November. That form lives on flathatnews.com, the domain The Flat Hat publishes under, with no third-party contest platform in between. The program carried editions in 2023, again in 2025 and once more in 2026, and counts as annual. Dates, the category list and any limit on repeat visits are not printed beside the ballot, so the live page governs each cycle.

Richmond Parade of Homes

Richmond · Home Building Association of Richmond (HBAR)

Home Building Association of Richmond's annual Parade of Homes, promoted at hbar.org/richmond-parade-of-homes and richmondparadeofhomes.com, includes a people's-choice public vote; exact dates, categories, and caps aren't published on either site.

Style Weekly Best of Richmond

Style Weekly's annual Best of Richmond Readers Poll, the Richmond alt-weekly's readers-choice program under Post Media, published at styleweekly.com/best-of-richmond-readers-poll-2026/. The 2026 cycle's issue is confirmed published June 9, 2026; categories, the voting window, and any cap aren't documented elsewhere, so check the live page each cycle.

VOTE: Gainesville Sun All-Area Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year

The Gainesville Sun lets readers choose its All-Area Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year through a free reader ballot on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). The award honors a high school girls lacrosse nominee from the Gainesville, Virginia area. The program ran in 2023 and again in 2025, and the 2026 voting window runs June 29 through July 6. Anyone with the ballot link may take part, with no cap on repeat votes.

2025 Calendar Pet Photo Contest

The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria runs the 2025 Calendar Pet Photo Contest on GoGo Photo Contest, its annual photo fundraiser that decides whose pet appears on the calendar and who is named Alexandria's Animal of the Year. Voting ran from June 1 through June 30, 2025, with each vote costing $1 and no stated ceiling on how many a supporter may cast. The 2025 edition has closed and winners have been announced on the ballot.

Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue Calendar Photo Contest

Richmond · Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue

Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue runs its Calendar Photo Contest as a fundraiser for the group's Great Pyrenees dogs, hosted on GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/agprescue. The rescue's own headquarters sit in Richmond, Virginia. What the page actually proves is thin: one confirmed contest year, 2019. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A live cycle is currently building toward a calendar cover dated 2027: the dog pulling the most votes takes that cover and shares the January page too, while every other submitted photo is assigned to one of the remaining months. No category list and no per-voter limit appear anywhere on the confirmed page.

AWLA Calendar Contest (Animal Welfare League of Arlington)

Arlington

The page for the AWLA Calendar Contest currently reads "Contest has ended," with the resulting 2026 calendars on sale, so what's confirmed right now is the shape of the program rather than an open vote. The Animal Welfare League of Arlington runs it through GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/awlarlington, where every vote is a donation to the league. The most recently completed cycle ran October 20-31, 2025 and raised $52,230. Archived editions place confirmed runnings in 2025 and 2026; the exact opening date for the next window isn't printed there. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Carroll News Cutest Pet Contest

Hillsville · Carroll News

The Carroll News, a weekly newspaper based in Hillsville, Virginia, runs the Cutest Pet Contest through the Second Street platform at carrollnews.secondstreetapp.com. Six editions are on the books, 2020 through 2025, with the 2025 round running October 22 through November 26, 2025, before closing. It is a photo-vote format: pet owners submit a picture, and readers vote for their favorite. Neither a roster of ballot categories nor a rule capping how often one supporter can vote is printed on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Cutest Pet Contest 2025 (carrollnews)

The Carroll News, a weekly newspaper in Hillsville, Virginia, runs the Cutest Pet Contest each fall on Second Street. The 2025 round opened October 22 and closed November 26, 2025. Editions have run since 2020, and readers vote for their favorite pet photo. Categories, vote limits and prize details change between rounds, so check the live ballot itself.

Cutest Pet Photo Contest 2026

Virginia Living magazine invites pet owners across Virginia to enter the Cutest Pet Photo Contest 2026, a public-vote photo competition that lives on the magazine's own domain. Submissions ran from February 2 through March 18, 2026, after a short extension, and voting runs March 16 through April 17. Every supporter gets one free vote per day, and the contest benefits the Virginia Beach SPCA. The program has run every year from 2018 through 2026.

For Roanokes Top Dog

For Roanokes Top Dog is a public-vote pet contest from The Roanoker Magazine in Roanoke, Virginia. The ballot is kept on the publisher's own domain, where readers pick a favorite among twelve finalists. The winning dog earns a professional photo shoot and a place in the March/April issue. Confirmed editions ran in 2020 and 2026. The 2020 ballot printed its deadline, midnight on January 19, 2020; the dates for the round now live are not printed, so supporters should check the ballot itself before planning a push.