Arkansas Online Voting Contests

Arkansas High School Athlete of the Week

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

SBLive / High School on SI runs a free statewide fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/arkansas covering every Arkansas Activities Association sport — football through track — weekly throughout the school year. No account needed. The poll closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m., and automated votes are explicitly prohibited and result in athlete disqualification.

Arkansas High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

The High School on SI / SBLive statewide fan vote for the best Arkansas boys basketball performance of the week. Editors nominate; anyone can vote with no account; the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT. Two confirmed 2025 winners — Peyton Hicks of Genoa Central (75%) and Ta'Ron Hurst of Earle (60%) — both come from small, rural programs, not the 6A powers the bracket sheets might lead you to expect.

Arkansas High School Football Player of the Week

The SBLive / High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Arkansas prep football performance of the week. Editors nominate across all seven AAA classifications, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT — the same night most casual voters have already moved on.

Arkansas High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week

SBLive / High School on SI runs a free statewide fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/arkansas/girls-basketball each week of the Arkansas basketball season (January through March). Editors choose the nominees from the weekend's stat lines; anyone can vote with no account, no limit. The ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT, and automated scripts are explicitly prohibited by the organizer.

Arkansas High School Player of the Year

Statewide Arkansas · High School on SI / SBLive (si.com/high-school/arkansas); ArkansasPrepSports.com

Annual statewide fan-vote at si.com/high-school/arkansas, run by High School on SI / SBLive, naming the top Arkansas prep athlete in each major sport at season's end. ArkansasPrepSports.com runs parallel regional Player of the Year polls presented by Shelter Insurance. No account required; unlimited votes, no scripts allowed.

Arkansas SBLive Athlete of the Week: Spring

Statewide Arkansas · SI / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)

SBLive Sports / High School on SI folds Arkansas's spring prep sports into one combined Athlete of the Week ballot at si.com/high-school/arkansas: baseball, softball, track, golf, tennis, and soccer nominees share the same weekly poll. The organizer's softball page confirms that coverage. Free to vote, no account required; confirm close time on the live post.

Arkansas SBLive Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Arkansas · SI / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)

A weekly winter fan poll from SI's High School on SI (SBLive Sports desk), recognizing one standout Arkansas prep boys basketball performance. Four straight 2025 editions (Jan. 13, Jan. 20, Jan. 27, and Feb. 3) are confirmed live and separate from SBLive's Arkansas girls basketball series. Nominations come from coaches, fans, and readers; no account is needed to cast a vote.

Arkansas SBLive Football Player of the Week

Statewide Arkansas · SI / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)

A weekly statewide fan vote from SI's High School on SI (SBLive Sports desk), picking one standout Arkansas prep football performance each Friday-night slate. Ballots post as dated articles, closing every Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Typical polls settle between 2,000 and 10,000 votes; nominations route through @SBLiveARK on X.

Arkansas SBLive Girls Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Arkansas · SI / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)

A weekly winter fan poll from SI's High School on SI (SBLive Sports desk), recognizing one standout Arkansas prep girls basketball performance. The ballot runs separate from SBLive's Arkansas boys basketball series, mirroring the gender-split structure SBLive already runs in Mississippi. Anyone can cast a ballot in the on-page widget without registering first.

FOX16 Fearless Friday Awards Fan Vote

FOX16 / KLRT (Nexstar) covers Arkansas high school football all season under the Fearless Friday banner and closes the year with a statewide Fearless Friday Awards fan vote, including a Fan Vote Winner category and a crowd-picked Play of the Year decided through FOX16's "Sound Off" feature. The program has run annual awards pages in both 2024 and 2025.

KAIT Region 8 Athlete of the Month

KAIT / K8 News runs a free monthly fan-vote poll at kait8.com for Region 8, Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri, naming a Boys Athlete of the Month and a Girls Athlete of the Month in separate ballots covering every sport. Nominations open the 1st–15th, voting runs the 16th through the end of the month, and the program has run every school year since at least 2022.

NWA Democrat-Gazette Athlete of the Week

Bentonville-Springdale-Fayetteville corridor · NWA Democrat-Gazette (nwaonline.com)

NWA Democrat-Gazette's Prep Rally Sports vertical publishes a weekly high school athlete feature for the Bentonville, Springdale, and Fayetteville corridor at nwaonline.com/sports/prep/. Northwest Arkansas is one of the country's fastest-growing metro areas, home to Walmart's headquarters and the Walton family's Crystal Bridges Museum. Voting format and deadlines are set post by post, not standardized site-wide.

Southwest Times Record Athlete of the Week (Fort Smith)

Fort Smith · Southwest Times Record

Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith's daily paper, features a River Valley high school Athlete of the Week tied to its prep-sports coverage and Facebook page @SWTimesRecord. No published vote cap or nomination email is confirmed here. The live post at swtimesrecord.com governs the current week's rules.

THV11 Athlete of the Week (Arkansas)

Central Arkansas (Little Rock / Conway / Bryant / Benton) · THV11 (KTHV), Little Rock's CBS affiliate

THV11 (KTHV), Little Rock's CBS affiliate, runs a High School Sports hub at thv11.com/hss and an active voting platform at thv11.com/vote, alongside a separate dedicated High School Football section. Coverage centers on the Central Arkansas market: Little Rock, Conway, Bryant, and Benton.

Arkansas Business Best of Biz

Arkansas Business Magazine's Readers' Choice Best of Biz awards, published at arkansasbusiness.com, cover a mix of B2B and consumer categories including accountants, dry cleaners, transportation, and restaurants. It's the fourth statewide readers-choice ballot in Arkansas, and the only one run by a business trade publication rather than a lifestyle title, a daily paper, or an alt-weekly.

Arkansas Money & Politics Best of AMP

Arkansas Money & Politics' Best of AMP readers'-choice program, published at armoneyandpolitics.com, covers finance, politics-adjacent businesses, and economic development. That B2B-and-civic focus sets it apart from Arkansas's consumer-facing best-of ballots, aiming at bankers, government-relations professionals, and economic-development officials rather than restaurant-goers or shoppers.

Arkansas Times Best of Arkansas

Arkansas Times' statewide readers-choice awards, now in its fourth decade after a 30th year in 2025, voted at vote.arktimes.com with results and history archived at arktimes.com/best-of-arkansas. The 2026 ballot leans heavily food and restaurant, with entertainment, arts, and a catch-all "Best of the Rest" category.

ArkansasOnline Best of the Best

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's ArkansasOnline runs Best of the Best, the state's largest daily paper's annual readers-choice program, voted at bestofthebest.arkansasonline.com with a companion hub at arkansasonline.com/bestof2025/. The 2026 edition is confirmed open, and categories span both businesses and individual people.

AY's Best of Arkansas

AY Magazine's (AY About You) statewide readers-choice awards, covering categories such as medical professionals, restaurants, florists, legal services, and wellness. Arkansans nominate businesses each January, then vote for five finalists per category at aymag.com from February 24 through March 24, drawing from a small-business base the magazine puts at 280,000-plus.

AY's Best Realtors

AY Magazine's profession-specific readers-choice vote for Arkansas real estate professionals, run as a sub-contest inside the AY's Best awards ecosystem. Nominations open at aymag.com/nominate-ays-best-realtors-2025/, and the exact voting window and finalist structure should be confirmed on that page each cycle.

Best of Arkansas

Arkansas Times' statewide Best of Arkansas readers-choice program, covering Little Rock and the rest of the state across more than 100 categories. The public casts votes at vote.arktimes.com, and the alt-weekly's own hub, arktimes.com/best-of-arkansas, carries program background rather than a live ballot count.

Best of Northeast Arkansas

Jonesboro Media Group's annual readers-choice business awards for Northeast Arkansas, spanning 215 categories with public voting at vote.bestofnea.com after a nomination round.

Best of NWA

The NWA Democrat-Gazette's Northwest Arkansas readers-choice contest, voted daily at votebestnwa.com with program details at bestnwa.com, across 11 sections from Agriculture to Things to Do. The November 2024 cycle was billed as the contest's largest-ever, with winners published annually in a magazine.

Best of River Valley

Annual River Valley Democrat-Gazette readers-choice business awards across the Fort Smith / Russellville region, with nominations, a finalist ballot, and public voting at votebestofrivervalley.com.

Best of the Best (Russellville Courier)

The Russellville Courier runs Best of the Best for Russellville, Arkansas, hosted on Second Street at russellvillecourier.secondstreetapp.com. Four editions are confirmed, 2023 through 2026, with the 2026 round open July 1 through August 26 and now closed. Best of the Best does not print a category list or a voting limit anywhere on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of the Grand Prairie (Stuttgart Daily Leader)

The Stuttgart Daily Leader runs Best of the Grand Prairie directly on its own site, stuttgartdailyleader.com, rather than handing the ballot to an outside platform. Four editions are confirmed, 2021, 2022, 2025, and 2026, with a documented Final Voting Phase that ran May 19 through June 8 in 2025. A category roster, a per-voter limit, and this cycle's exact voting window are not published on the archived page; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

Central Arkansas Parade of Homes People's Choice

Central Arkansas Home Builders Association's Parade of Homes includes a People's Choice award, confirmed by builder Two Structures Homes' published coverage of the event. CAHBA's own voting page isn't independently confirmed here; the format follows the touring-and-voting pattern sister associations like Central Oklahoma's run for their own Parade of Homes.

CommunityVotes Fayetteville

Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business ballot for Fayetteville, Arkansas, run at fayettevillear.communityvotes.com with a nominate-then-vote cycle covering Washington County and the wider Northwest Arkansas market.

CommunityVotes Fort Smith

Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business ballot for Fort Smith, Arkansas, run at fortsmith.communityvotes.com with a nominate-then-vote cycle and its own 2026 nomination window separate from every other Arkansas best-of program.

CommunityVotes Jonesboro

Jonesboro, Arkansas gets its own CommunityVotes ballot, run through a local partner at jonesboro.communityvotes.com, with a dated history of two confirmed cycles, one in 2025 and one in 2026. By July 2026 that page had already thanked supporters for voting and moved on to posting winners, well past any open nomination window, and it noted that winners' awards are made-to-order. Which award categories apply and how a vote limit works stay off that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Little Rock

Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business ballot for Little Rock, Arkansas, run at littlerock.communityvotes.com across twelve confirmed categories, Automotive, Financial, Retail, and nine more, with nominations for the current cycle opening in August 2024 ahead of the active 2025 edition and its category-by-category public vote.

Little Rock Soirée Recommends

Little Rock · Little Rock Soirée Magazine

Little Rock Soirée Magazine's Soirée Recommends feature, culminating each year in the Platinum Service Awards, recognizes local professionals across five categories, Beauty/Wellness, Events, Home, Kids, and Shopping, with the 2025 cycle confirmed live through the magazine's own website and Instagram.

NWA Parade of Homes People's Choice

Home Builders Association of NW Arkansas's People's Choice vote at nwaparadeofhomes.com, decided by free e-ticket holders touring the Bentonville-Fayetteville luxury home market each June, with winners announced across multiple price categories.

Soirée Best Lawyers Little Rock

Little Rock Soirée and Arkansas Business jointly run Best Lawyers Little Rock, a readers' award deciding winners through peer review combined with reader voting. Five confirmed categories cover civil, criminal, business, family, and personal injury law, with the ballot hosted as an editorial feature on littlerocksoiree.com rather than a separate voting microsite.

Texarkana Gazette Readers' Choice

Texarkana · Texarkana Gazette

The Texarkana Gazette's Readers' Choice awards, voted online at texarkanagazette.com/readerschoice, are the only Arkansas-linked readers' choice ballot confirmed to cross a state line. The program draws from both Miller County, Arkansas and Bowie County, Texas, letting cross-border businesses compete for votes across a shared Texarkana metro of roughly 100,000 people.

Adopt A Stray Rescue Pet Calendar Photo Contest

Adopt a Stray Rescue, based in Arkansas, runs its Pet Calendar Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/adoptastrayrescue on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. Two confirmed editions produced the 2024 and 2025 calendars; the most recently confirmed round closed voting 9:00 PM Central, Sunday, October 13, 2024. Entry is free and each vote costs $1, with the top 13 photos landing in the calendar and the leader on its cover. Whatever comes next is confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

AY Magazine's Cutest Pet Contest

AY's Cutest Pet Contest, run directly by AY Magazine at aymag.com with no separate voting platform involved, covers Arkansas at large; the confirmed page names no single city. One confirmed edition exists, 2025, with the entry window landing somewhere between March and May. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Nothing on aymag.com sorts entries by species or age, and nothing spells out how many times one supporter may cast a vote; confirm both details the same way before promising a household anything specific.

KNWA Cutest Pet Contest

KNWA's Cutest Pet Contest is an annual pet-photo vote run on the Second Street platform at knwanews.secondstreetapp.com, organized by the Arkansas radio outlet KNWA. Five straight years are confirmed, 2022 through 2026, with the 2026 window running August 1 through September 1. No category breakdown, vote cap, or per-voter rule appears anywhere in what's published; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

AIA Arkansas People's Choice Award

AIA Arkansas, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects, runs the People's Choice Award for design excellence at aiaar.org. The chapter's own page states the award launched in 2015, and the 2026 cycle closes September 25, 2026, as its latest confirmed edition. Beyond that, the category list and any per-voter rule are what the live ballot actually settles, checked fresh each cycle.