West Virginia Online Voting Contests

WBOY Harry Green Athlete of the Week

Clarksburg-Morgantown market · WBOY 12 (Nexstar)

WBOY 12 (Nexstar) runs the Harry Green Athlete of the Week, a free weekly fan vote for North Central West Virginia high school athletes at wboy.com. The 2025 season confirms the feature is active, with a Morgantown-area quarterback among its honorees. Exact vote caps and close times are not published in the confirmed record.

West Virginia High School Athlete of the Week

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

Free weekly fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/west-virginia, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group), recognising standout prep athletes across all four WVSSAC classifications statewide. Any fan votes free, once per poll cycle; no account required.

West Virginia High School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week

A winter, boys-basketball-specific edition of High School on SI's West Virginia Athlete of the Week franchise, inferred from the same si.com/high-school/west-virginia hub's confirmed pattern of running sport-specific fall (football) and spring (softball) ballots, plus SI's confirmed coverage of WV basketball standings. No dated boys-basketball post independently confirms cadence or close time yet.

West Virginia High School Football Athlete of the Week

The fall-only, football-specific edition of High School on SI's West Virginia Athlete of the Week franchise, hosted on the same si.com/high-school/west-virginia hub confirmed active through the 2024 and 2025 seasons. It runs alongside, not instead of, the statewide all-sport ballot and two separate Wheeling-market polls WTRF operates on its own site.

West Virginia High School Football Player of the Week

High School on SI runs the weekly fan-vote poll for West Virginia prep football at si.com/high-school/west-virginia. Editors nominate 10 to 11 players each week, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. — a day earlier than some regional peers, which compresses the campaign window.

West Virginia High School Girls Basketball Athlete of the Week

A winter, girls-basketball-specific edition of High School on SI's West Virginia Athlete of the Week franchise, inferred from the same si.com/high-school/west-virginia hub's confirmed pattern of running sport-specific fall (football) and spring (softball) ballots, plus SI's confirmed coverage of WV girls basketball standings. No dated girls basketball post independently confirms cadence or close time yet.

West Virginia High School Softball Athlete of the Week

The spring-only, softball-specific edition of High School on SI's West Virginia Athlete of the Week franchise, hosted on the same si.com/high-school/west-virginia hub confirmed active via dated posts in April 2025. It runs during the WVSSAC softball season alongside, not instead of, the year-round, all-sport statewide ballot the same hub carries the rest of the year.

West Virginia High School Softball Player of the Week

High School on SI runs a spring fan-vote poll each week of the WVSSAC softball season at si.com/high-school/west-virginia. Editors nominate 10–11 players from across all four classifications; anyone can vote without an account and there is no per-vote limit. The ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

West Virginia WTRF Athlete of the Week

The weekly, all-sports fan vote for Wheeling-area high schools run by WTRF 7 (Nexstar) at wtrf.com/athlete-of-the-week, paired with a separate Team of the Week ballot at wtrf.com/team-of-the-week. Free and open to the public, it covers every high school sport in the Ohio Valley market, not just football.

West Virginia WTRF Elite Roofing Elite Player of the Week

The weekly Wheeling-market fan vote for high school football's "Elite Roofing Elite Player of the Week," run by WTRF 7 (Nexstar) through its Gold and Blue Nation sports platform. Anyone can vote for free at wtrf.com during the WVSSAC football season, covering Northern Panhandle programs on both the West Virginia and Ohio sides of the Ohio Valley.

WOWK High School Football Player of the Week

Huntington-Charleston market · WOWK 13 News (Nexstar)

WOWK 13 News, the Nexstar-owned Huntington-Charleston station, runs a free weekly Player of the Week feature for West Virginia high school football each fall at wowktv.com. Two 2025 weeks, Week 10 and Week 14, carry a confirmed named honoree. Vote caps, close times, and the nominee list aren't published in the confirmed record.

2025 River Cities Best of the Best

The 2025 River Cities Best of the Best is a readers' choice awards ballot published by WV News of Clarksburg, West Virginia, and hosted on Second Street. Unlike the statewide Best of West Virginia ballot, this program carries the Clarksburg newsroom's own market name. Its 2025 round ran from November 18, 2024 through January 8, 2025 and is closed. Editions are confirmed for 2023, 2024 and 2025.

2026 Best of Harrison

Best of Harrison is the readers' choice ballot that WV News runs for Harrison County and the surrounding North Central West Virginia market, with Clarksburg as its home city. The 2026 edition was hosted on Second Street at ncwvcontests.secondstreetapp.com and ran from December 8, 2025 through January 31, 2026, as a combined nomination and voting ballot. WV News has since marked that window closed. This page sets out the ballot's confirmed dates, its platform, its publisher and the steps a supporter follows, and flags which details, such as the category list and any per-supporter limit, are not published anywhere in writing.

2026 Best of Marion County

WV News runs the 2026 Best of Marion County, a best-of ballot for businesses across Marion County, West Virginia, carried on Second Street. The 2026 voting window opens August 21 and closes October 2, 2026. Confirmed editions sit in 2024 and 2026, and the publisher treats the program as an annual fixture. Category lineups and voting rules are not circulated ahead of the ballot.

2026 Best of Upshur County

The 2026 Best of Upshur County ballot is open now, taking nominations and votes from July 8 through September 22, 2026. WV News runs the program on Second Street's balloting platform, and a 2025 edition is documented at the publisher's 2025 ballot address. Supporters nominate and vote for favorite local businesses and services across Upshur County, West Virginia, with Buckhannon the community the publisher's own contest page greets. Category details and voting rules live on the ballot itself.

Best in the Tri-State

Huntington · The Herald-Dispatch

Annual Herald-Dispatch readers-choice awards for the Huntington, West Virginia Tri-State area (WV/KY/OH), with online-or-paper ballots, a once-per-day vote limit, and a required-categories rule to qualify.

Best in the Valley

The Charleston Gazette-Mail's annual Best in the Valley readers-choice program, voted at wvgazettemail.com/site/best_in_the_valley.html by picking a county first and only then seeing that county's categories. The 2025 voting window closed September 12, with results printed in a dedicated Gazette-Mail special section.

Best of Mineral 2026

WV News runs the Best of Mineral 2026 ballot on Second Street, its Clarksburg, West Virginia contest hub. The public vote for local businesses opened May 8 and closed June 26, 2026. A 2025 edition ran before it on the same platform, so the program repeats yearly. WV News has not printed the category lineup or any per-person voting limit for this ballot.

Best of Morgantown

Morgantown Magazine's annual Best of Morgantown readers-choice program, now in its 15th year for the 2026 cycle, covering the WVU-adjacent Morgantown, West Virginia market at morgantownmag.com. Results are confirmed for the magazine's Spring 2026 issue. Nomination windows, categories, and any vote cap are unpublished; confirm on the live site each cycle.

Best of the Ohio Valley

The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register's annual readers'-choice ballot for the Upper Ohio Valley, run with sister paper Times Leader across 156+ local categories. The 2025 vote drew more than 275,000 ballots, with winners toasted each October at the White Palace.

Best of West Virginia

Best of West Virginia is New South Media's statewide readers-choice awards program, produced through WV Living Magazine and run on the Second Street platform at newsouthmedia.secondstreetapp.com. Four editions are confirmed, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026, with the 2026 nomination stage set for July 14 through 28 and a finalist vote scheduled September 22 through October 13. Past that structure, a settled roster of categories and a limit on votes per supporter are not confirmed; both wait on whatever the live ballot states each cycle.

Best of West Virginia 2026 (newsouthmedia)

Best of West Virginia 2026 is the statewide readers' choice ballot run by New South Media Inc., the Morgantown publisher of WV Living Magazine. The ballot sits on Second Street. Nominations ran July 14 to 28, 2026, and finalist voting runs September 22 through October 13, 2026. Confirmed editions reach back to 2020, with a 2018 list also documented. This page sets out who runs the ballot, the dates, the daily vote rule and what the organizer leaves unpublished.

Best of WV

WV Living Magazine's annual statewide readers-choice program, nominating West Virginia businesses by category from July 15 through July 30 at wvliving.com/best-of-west-virginia/, then voting among finalists in a separate round from September 23 through October 13, capped at one vote per day per category, with winners printed in the winter issue.

Best Wv Regional Metro Valley

WV Living Magazine publishes a Metro Valley winners page under its Best of WV umbrella, naming the businesses and places readers chose in the Charleston, South Charleston, Lesage and Huntington corridor of West Virginia. Nine confirmed editions run from 2018 through 2026, and the 2026 finalist vote is dated September 22 through October 12 on the magazine's own site.

For Pendleton County

Legal Ads runs For Pendleton County, a best-of public-vote ballot for Pendleton County, West Virginia, posted on wvlegals.com, the publisher's website. Confirmed editions ran in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 voting window falls in May. The Pendleton Times posted the 2024 ballot on May 8, 2024. The exact voting days, the category roster and any rule on repeat voting are not printed with the ballot, so a business that wants to plan a push should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Parkersburg Readers' Choice

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel's annual Readers' Choice Awards, a three-stage program across 200+ local categories, August nominations narrowed to five finalists per category, an October finalist vote, and results tabulated by an independent third party.

The Dominion Post Readers' Choice

The Dominion Post's annual readers' choice awards for Morgantown, voted at dominionpost.com/readerschoice/ and confirmed active for the 2026 cycle. The program covers the WVU-driven local market, where restaurants, bars, and salons compete alongside the everyday services a college town this size actually needs.

Town Of Franklin

Unlike the statewide Best of West Virginia readers poll, the Town Of Franklin ballot is a small municipal public-vote notice run by Legal Ads on its own site, wvlegals.com. Its confirmed voting window fell in May 2024, and edition years listed for it run 2024, 2025 and 2026. Supporters vote on the organizer's own ballot page, and the exact opening and closing days should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

West Virginia HBA Parade of Homes

Home Builders Association of West Virginia runs this annual Parade of Homes through hbawv.org, timed adjacent to the West Virginia Home Show in Charleston, confirmed for April 2025. Kanawha Valley Builders Association (kvba.com) is a confirmed active partner; neither site publishes a public ballot format.

WV News Best of Harrison County

Seven confirmed editions, 2020 through 2026, sit behind 2026 Best of Harrison, WV News's ballot at ncwvcontests.secondstreetapp.com. NCWV Media, the WV News operation, lists Harrison among the North Central West Virginia counties it covers, and the organization is witnessed in Clarksburg. The most recent edition opened December 8, 2025 and closed January 31, 2026. WV News has not made public any breakdown of judging categories or a fixed ceiling on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

WV News Best of Marion County

Where does a Marion County nominee's vote actually land? At wvnews.secondstreetapp.com, WV News' 2026 Best of Marion County ballot, open August 21 through October 2, 2026. WV News, headquartered in Clarksburg, West Virginia, runs the ballot as a combined nomination-and-voting listing rather than two separate stages. Two editions are confirmed, 2024 and 2026; a category roster and any per-voter limit are unpublished, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

WV News Best of Mineral County

West Virginia's Best of Mineral County ballot is organized by WV News, a statewide newsroom headquartered in Clarksburg, through the Second Street platform at wvnews.secondstreetapp.com. The program counts two confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026; the 2026 voting window ran May 8 through June 26, 2026, and has since closed. How many categories the ballot runs, and any per-voter limit, aren't printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

WV News Best of Preston County

WV News, headquartered in Clarksburg, West Virginia, runs the 2026 Best of Preston County ballot at wvnews.secondstreetapp.com, open September 3 through October 20, 2026. The same account carries a same-season Best of Marion County ballot and a same-season Best of Upshur County ballot too, so the exact address matters. Three editions are confirmed, 2024, 2025, and 2026; a category roster and any per-voter limit are unpublished, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

WV News Best of Upshur County

WV News opened voting on 2026 Best of Upshur County July 8 and holds it open through September 22 at wvnews.secondstreetapp.com. Two confirmed editions back the program, 2025 and 2026. WV News runs the ballot out of Clarksburg, West Virginia; Upshur County is the county this particular ballot names. Beyond that July 8-September 22 window, nobody outside WV News has pinned down how many categories the ballot sorts businesses into or set a ceiling on repeat clicks from the same supporter; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

WV News River Cities Best of the Best

WV News runs 2025 River Cities Best of the Best at wvnews.secondstreetapp.com, a ballot named for a region rather than one county, unlike some of WV News's other Second Street contests. Three editions are confirmed, 2023 through 2025, and the most recent closed January 8, 2025 after opening November 18, 2024. WV News is witnessed operating out of Clarksburg, West Virginia. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.