Kentucky Online Voting Contests

Cincinnati Enquirer NKY Athlete of the Week

Northern Kentucky · Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll from the Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) covering Northern Kentucky prep athletes across Boone, Kenton, Campbell, and Grant county schools. Yahoo Sports syndicates the ballot; readers vote once per hour per device, no account required, and the poll closes 4 p.m. Friday.

Courier Journal Athlete of the Week

Louisville · The Courier Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at courier-journal.com recognising standout Louisville-metro prep athletes across every KHSAA sports season. Published by The Courier Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) via SecondStreet; one vote per hour per device, no account required, closes Thursday or Friday — a tighter window than Kentucky's statewide SI poll, which runs to Sunday with unlimited votes.

Courier Journal Louisville Boys Athlete of the Week

Louisville · The Courier Journal (Gannett / USA Today Network)

The Courier Journal's (Gannett / USA Today Network) Louisville-metro weekly fan vote for the best boys prep performance across all sports. Closes Thursday at 6:00 p.m. — earlier and shorter than the statewide SBLive/SI polls — and covers every sport from football to tennis in the Jefferson County metro area. Nomination contact is Prince James Story at [email protected].

Courier Journal Louisville Girls Athlete of the Week

Louisville · The Courier Journal

The Courier Journal's weekly fan vote honoring the top female prep athlete in the Louisville metro across every sport. The ballot closes Thursday at 6 p.m. — earlier than most statewide polls — and the winner is announced the following morning, giving Louisville-area campaigns a compressed, three-to-four-day window to move.

Gridiron Glory Performance of the Week

A weekly fan vote from WPSD Local 6, the NBC affiliate in Paducah, choosing the standout high school football performance from the Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky each week of the season. WPSD frames the result as a viewer pick, not a newsroom pick, distinct from the station's separate Biokinetics Athlete of the Week segment.

Kentucky High School Athlete of the Week

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

Statewide weekly fan-vote recognition published at si.com by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), covering every KHSAA member school across all three Kentucky prep sports seasons. Voting is unlimited, free, and open through Sunday 11:59 p.m.

Kentucky High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · Sports Illustrated / SBLive (High School on SI); Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA)

Annual statewide fan vote from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI hub (SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky, decided after the KHSAA spring baseball season ends and separate from the KHSAA's own 2026 State Tournament All-Tournament Team and postseason awards. Free, no account required; no vote cap is currently published for this ballot.

Kentucky High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote run by SBLive Sports / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/kentucky/boys-basketball, naming a Kentucky Boys Basketball Player of the Year after the KHSAA winter season across all six classifications. It runs separately from Kentucky Mr. Basketball's closed media panel and from SBLive's all-sport, weekly, and Player of the Year ballots.

Kentucky High School Football Player of the Week

The SBLive / High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Kentucky prep football performance each week. Editors nominate 8–10 standouts, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. — a full day earlier than the SI regional polls that run in Texas.

Kentucky High School Football Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · Sports Illustrated / SBLive (High School on SI); Kentucky Football Coaches Association (KFCA)

Annual statewide fan-vote award from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI hub (SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky, decided after the KHSAA football season ends and separate from the Kentucky Football Coaches Association's district-level, class-based honors. The 2024 statewide vote closed 65.3% to the winning nominee out of 19,539 votes cast — free, no account required.

Kentucky High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote run by SBLive Sports / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/kentucky/girls-basketball, naming a Kentucky Girls Basketball Player of the Year after the KHSAA winter season. A live Top 25 rankings feature, confirmed active January 2026, feeds the nominee pool, apart from the KVCA Girls Player of the Year honor.

Kentucky High School Player of the Year

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

Season-end fan-vote Player of the Year recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky, covering all KHSAA-sanctioned sports and classifications statewide. No per-vote cap; polls close at 11:59 p.m. on the stated deadline. Annual, sport-specific.

Kentucky High School Softball Player of the Year

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

Annual statewide fan vote from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI hub (SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky/softball, decided once the KHSAA spring softball season ends. South Warren's softball program was ranked No. 1 in the nation for the 2025 season. Free to vote; no account required; no vote cap is currently published.

Lexington Herald-Leader Athlete of the Week

Lexington · Lexington Herald-Leader (McClatchy)

Recurring Athlete of the Week recognition from the Lexington Herald-Leader (McClatchy) for Central Kentucky prep athletes, centered on Fayette County and the surrounding Bluegrass counties. Separate from Kentucky's statewide SI/SBLive poll and Louisville's Courier Journal poll. Free public vote at kentucky.com; confirm the current cycle's vote cap and close day on the live poll page.

WKYT Athlete of the Week

Lexington and central/eastern Kentucky · WKYT (CBS affiliate, Lexington, Kentucky)

WKYT, the CBS affiliate covering Lexington and much of central and eastern Kentucky, runs an online Athlete of the Week feature at wkyt.com/sports/athlete-of-the-week/. Confirmed picks include a Lexington-area high school, a western Kentucky high school, and University of Kentucky Athletics. WKYT does not publish a public archive or a stated vote cap.

WYMT Don Franklin Athlete of the Week

Hazard-based WYMT runs this one alone. The Don Franklin Athlete of the Week pulls nominees from Bell, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Letcher, Perry, and Pike County schools, year-round, across every KHSAA sport season rather than one.

Best in Kentucky

Annual statewide readers-choice awards from Kentucky Living magazine (Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives), with open nominations followed by public voting each May at KentuckyLiving.com.

Best of Bowling Green

Bowling Green Daily News folds nominating and voting into one ballot, hosted by Second Street at bowlinggreendailynews3.secondstreetapp.com/2026-Best-of-Bg. Two dated cycles are now confirmed: Best of BG 2025-2 opened September 3 and closed October 24, 2025, and this year's ballot opened August 11 and closes October 1, 2026.

Best of Lexington KY

Best of Lexington KY's annual spring readers-choice vote at bestoflexingtonkentucky.com, spanning professional categories such as dentist, doctor, lawyer, and realtor alongside an equestrian boarding category tied to the Bluegrass region's horse farms. A separate program, Chevy Chaser Magazine's "Best of Lex," published its own results in April 2025.

Best of Louisville

Louisville Magazine's annual readers-choice vote for Louisville-metro businesses and personalities — 35th edition in 2025 — running an open nomination round followed by public voting on a broad, multi-category ballot at loumag.secondstreetapp.com.

Best of NKY

NKY Magazine's readers-choice ballot for Boone, Kenton, Campbell, and Grant counties, 194 categories deep, running on the SecondStreet voting platform with nominations in January and public voting in spring.

Best Places to Work in Kentucky

The Kentucky Chamber and KYSHRM's annual Best Places to Work in Kentucky program recognizes employers across three size categories, small, medium, and large, honoring winners at a ceremony that draws 1,000+ attendees. Amgen, CFSB, and Wehr Constructors were named 2025 winners; confirm current entry details each cycle directly at kychamber.com.

BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual regional theater fan vote for the Louisville area, cast at broadwayworld.com/louisville/voteregion.cfm. GREASE led Best Musical in 2025, with Woodford Theatre and Ramsey Theatre Company at SKYPAC topping that year's results across the ballot.

Chevy Chaser Best of Lex

Chevy Chaser Magazine's annual Best of Lex readers-choice program, voted at chevychaser.com and published by Smiley Pete Publishing, spans local Lexington, Kentucky businesses, people, and organizations rather than one ballot type. The April 2025 cycle's results appeared in a magazine edition hosted on Issuu.

CommunityVotes Lexington-Fayette

CommunityVotes Lexington-Fayette's annual readers-choice business ballot at lexingtonfayette.communityvotes.com, with nominations open August through December and the 2025 cycle confirmed active. No category list, vote cap, or close date beyond that window is published; confirm current details on the live site each cycle.

Frankfort's Faves (The State Journal)

Frankfort, Kentucky's Frankfort's Faves runs through The Frankfort State Journal at thefrankfortstatejournal2.secondstreetapp.com. Three editions are confirmed on the platform archive, 2023, 2025 and 2026, skipping 2024 entirely, and the 2026 combined nomination-and-voting window closed on August 27. What categories businesses can enter under, and whether a single supporter faces a daily ceiling, stays off that confirmed page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle once a new window actually posts.

Kentucky Living's Best in Kentucky

Kentucky Living magazine's statewide readers-choice vote, with February nominations, a May 1-31 public ballot capped at one vote per day per email address, and the 2025 winners announced live on August 13 at kentuckyliving.com.

LEO Weekly Readers' Choice

LEO Weekly's Readers' Choice awards Louisville-area businesses through a two-round ballot: readers submit nominations first, then the top 10 finalists in each category move to a final public vote at vote.leoweekly.com, with winners recognized at the program's Oct. 23 celebration party each year.

Lexington Tour of Remodeled Homes

The Building Industry Association of Central Kentucky's annual Tour of Remodeled Homes lets Central Kentucky visitors walk through member-built renovation projects and vote for a People's Choice favorite, with details at biacentralky.com. The 2025 tour featured nine projects, and Bluegrass Haven Construction took that year's People's Choice title.

Louisville Community Choice Awards

Louisville, Kentucky gets its Community's Choice Awards from Courier-Journal.com, whose Second Street ballot system sits at courier-journal.gannettcontests.com. Four editions have now closed out, 2023 into 2026, with the most recent nomination stage opening February 6 and ending May 21. Neither a list of categories nor a per-supporter voting limit has surfaced anywhere public; each stays a question for whatever the live ballot happens to show next.

Louisville Parade of Homes

Lincoln Trail Home Builders Association runs the Louisville Parade of Homes, an annual builder design vote confirmed for October 17-19, 2025, through a partnership with premierhomesonline.com. Attendees compare showcased new-construction homes and vote for a favorite builder's design; the exact category list and next year's dates need a live-site check each cycle.

Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer Readers' Choice

Owensboro · Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer

Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer runs an annual Readers' Choice awards program at messenger-inquirer.com/readerschoice/, a Western Kentucky best-of ballot that lists Kentucky Wesleyan College alongside everyday Daviess County restaurants, shops, and service providers. The newspaper opens public voting each year, though the site itself is the only source for that cycle's exact dates and categories.

Paducah Sun Readers' Choice Awards

The Paducah Sun's annual Readers' Choice Awards, a nominate-then-vote SecondStreet ballot covering Retail, Food, Service, Health, and Home categories across the Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky.

WTVQ Viewers' Choice Awards

WTVQ-TV (ABC 36), the ABC affiliate licensed to Lexington, Kentucky, runs the WTVQ Viewers' Choice Awards through the Second Street platform at abc36.secondstreetapp.com. Six confirmed editions span 2021 through 2026, and the 2026 ballot combined nominating and voting into one window, March 1 through May 1, now closed. No category roster and no vote cap appear on the page as of September 2026; each remains a live-ballot question rather than a settled fact.

Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue Pet Photo Calendar Contest

La Grange · Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue

A small La Grange, Kentucky rescue, Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue, built its own calendar fundraiser and put it on GoGo Photo Contest's page for the rescue, gogophotocontest.com/adoptmebluegrasspetrescue-2022, rather than joining a shared statewide ballot. Three edition years back the contest so far, 2022 through 2024, and the 2022 round opened October 19 and closed November 9 that year. Entries climb by raw vote count alone, with the top dozen photos featured at the end. Whether a category roster or a daily voting limit exists is never spelled out; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming either one.

Alley Cat Advocates Cat Calendar Contest

Louisville · Alley Cat Advocates

Louisville, Kentucky's Alley Cat Advocates runs its Cat Calendar Contest as a fundraiser for the group's rescued cats, posted on GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/alleycatadvocates-2016. Web addresses tied to each year point to nine confirmed contest years running from 2016 through 2024, one of the longer histories among fundraisers of this kind. Nothing published moves the confirmed history past 2024. The 2016 page's own text spells out its prize mechanic: several cats, one for each month from January through December 2017, are each named Cat of the Month and given a prize package the page doesn't fully describe. No category list and no per-supporter vote limit appear anywhere on the confirmed page. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Bluegrass Pug Rescue Calendar Contest

Louisville · Bluegrass Pug Rescue Calendar Contest

Bluegrass Pug Rescue, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, runs the Bluegrass Pug Rescue Calendar Contest as a photo fundraiser through GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/bluegrasspugrescue-2023. Two editions are confirmed, 2023 and 2024, and the confirmed 2023 window has voting opening at 12:00 AM Eastern on Saturday, August 19, and closing at 9:00 PM Eastern on Sunday, September 3. Prizes tie straight to vote totals, with the 13 pugs pulling the most votes printed inside the calendar and the pug leading the whole field taking the cover. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.