Louisiana Online Voting Contests

Baton Rouge High School Athlete of the Week

Baton Rouge · The Advocate / theadvocate.com

The Advocate's weekly fan vote for standout prep athletes across the Baton Rouge metro, covering all LHSAA-sanctioned sports year-round. Closes noon Thursday — a sharper window than most Louisiana weekly polls — with the winner featured on The Advocate High School Sports Facebook page.

Louisiana High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Louisiana · High School on SI (si.com/high-school/louisiana)

High School on SI (si.com/high-school/louisiana) runs a free weekly statewide fan vote each school-sports season, spotlighting top Louisiana prep performers across all LHSAA classes — 5A through 1A and select Divisions I–IV. Open ballot, no registration required.

Louisiana High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

Free annual fan-vote hosted by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/louisiana, honoring the top Louisiana prep boys basketball player by LHSAA classification. Separate Class 5A through 1A polls run after each winter season ends; no registration required. Run by SBLive Sports under the Sports Illustrated High School banner.

Louisiana High School Football Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide Louisiana fan vote — technically "Athlete of the Week" but 87–100% football nominees during the fall season. Voting closes 11:59 p.m. PT Sunday, with no cap on manual votes. Nominations go to [email protected] by 4 p.m. Sunday.

Louisiana High School Player of the Year

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

Annual end-of-season fan-vote series run by SBLive Sports / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/louisiana, crowning the top LHSAA prep athlete per sport across all five classification levels (1A–5A). Separate polls run for each sport; voting closes 11:59 p.m. PT on each poll's posted deadline.

New Orleans Area High School Athlete of the Week

New Orleans · NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune

The NOLA.com / Times-Picayune weekly fan vote for the best non-football prep sports performance across Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and the River Parishes. Nominations close Sunday at 5 p.m.; the poll closes Thursday at noon — five days shorter than the SI statewide ballot.

New Orleans Area Prep Football Player of the Week

New Orleans · NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune

The NOLA.com / Times-Picayune regional fan vote for the best prep football performance in the New Orleans metro — Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and the River Parishes. Editors nominate; anyone can vote; the ballot closes at noon on Thursday, not the weekend, which compresses the campaign window sharply.

Shreveport Times High School Athlete of the Week

Shreveport · Shreveport Times / USA Today Network

The Shreveport Times weekly fan vote for the top prep athlete across Northwest Louisiana — covering every LHSAA sport except football, closing Friday night, with the winner receiving a Raising Cane's prize package and a feature story.

WAFB Sportsline Player of the Week

Baton Rouge · WAFB 9 (CBS, Baton Rouge)

WAFB 9's weekly high school football fan vote for the Baton Rouge market, hosted on a dedicated Sportsline hub page rather than a dated article, with the winner featured in that week's sports segment on WAFB 9 (CBS).

WBRZ Fans' Choice Player of the Week

The WBRZ News 2 weekly fan vote for Baton Rouge-area high school football, nominees are revealed Tuesday, voting opens that evening, and fans can vote up to 50 times before the winner is announced live on the Wednesday 6 p.m. newscast.

Alexandria Community's Choice Awards

The Town Talk's (Gannett) readers-choice business awards for Cenla, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/alexandria/ across 150+ categories spanning Rapides, Grant, and Avoyelles parishes.

Bayou's Best Community's Choice Awards

Houma Today / Daily Comet readers-choice business awards for Louisiana's Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/houma/ across 150+ categories with gold, silver, and bronze winners published annually.

Best of 225

Baton Rouge · 225 Magazine

Best of 225 is a Louisiana readers'-choice program run by 225 Magazine for residents of the Baton Rouge 225 area code. The confirmed web address is titled "Best of 225 FAQ," but it functions as the program's own rules page rather than a help desk. Write-in nominations ran January 2 through January 31, 2026, ahead of a separate voting round that opens later in February. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Baton Rouge

The Advocate's Best of Baton Rouge is a public online readers-choice program spanning 200+ categories across 11 business sectors. The confirmed 2025 cycle drew 106,000 voters casting 236,000 votes for 3,500+ competing businesses over an 18-day window, producing 627 winners.

Best of New Orleans

Gambit's annual, entirely reader-driven poll for the New Orleans metro, published through NOLA Media Group at nola.com, spans 100+ categories plus a separate Northshore section. Gambit states plainly that its own staff doesn't pick winners and doesn't sell placement anywhere on the list.

Best of SWLA

Lake Charles American Press readers-choice awards spanning five Southwest Louisiana parishes, with public People's Choice voting at bestofswla.com.

Best of The River Parishes

L'Observateur runs Best of The River Parishes, a Second Street reader ballot covering Louisiana's River Parishes region, at lobservateur2.secondstreetapp.com. The 2026 window is confirmed open June 3 through September 21, the program's first confirmed edition. Past that window, a category list or a per-voter limit is whatever the live ballot itself says, confirmed fresh each cycle.

Best of the Teche

The Daily Iberian, headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana, runs Best of the Teche at thedailyiberian.secondstreetapp.com. Eight editions are confirmed on the platform archive, 2018 through 2026 with no 2019 edition on the list, and the 2026 combined nomination-and-voting window closed on July 26. Which categories businesses compete under, and how many votes a single supporter may cast, stays absent from that confirmed page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Bogalusa Daily News Readers' Choice

Bogalusa Daily News runs Readers' Choice 2026, a Louisiana readers'-choice business ballot, at bogalusadailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. The platform's archive confirms just one prior run, in 2025, ahead of the 2026 combined nomination-and-voting window that closed on August 20. The organizer's page names no city for this ballot, only the state; which categories apply and how often a supporter may vote stay off that page too. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

BPT Readers Choice

Bossier City, Louisiana's Bossier Press-Tribune runs BPT Readers Choice at bossierpress.com, unlike the metro-daily ballots that cover Baton Rouge or New Orleans on their own separate sites. The 2025 edition called itself the newspaper's 26th Annual Reader's Choice program and arrived as a print insert in the newspaper's April 2, 2025 edition. The current cycle's voting window is placed in September 2026 on the same page. A published list of categories and a fixed vote limit are missing beyond that point, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming either one exists yet.

CommunityVotes Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge, Louisiana is home to CommunityVotes Baton Rouge, one of three separately run local best-of ballots in the city, reachable at batonrouge.communityvotes.com. This CommunityVotes round has run twice so far, in 2025 and again in 2026, and the current voting window stands open, Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, September 27. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Lafayette LA

A Lafayette-based CommunityVotes partner publishes CommunityVotes Lafayette LA at lafayettela.communityvotes.com, distinct from the city's separately run Acadiana's Choice ballot on YourChoiceAwards. This CommunityVotes edition has run twice, in 2024 and again in 2026, with the current voting window open, Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, September 27. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Lake Charles

Lake Charles · CommunityVotes Lake Charles

Lake Charles, Louisiana carries two separate readers'-choice ballots at once: CommunityVotes Lake Charles, organized through a local CommunityVotes partner at lakecharles.communityvotes.com, and the unrelated Best of SWLA program next door. Dated evidence for CommunityVotes' own Lake Charles market covers 2024 and 2026, and the 2026 stage sits in active voting, open Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, September 27. The confirmed page never lists which categories compete, nor how many times a supporter may return to vote. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Iberian Dress Your Pet Photo Contest

The Daily Iberian runs the Dress Your Pet Photo Contest, a Louisiana pet-photo ballot that lives on the Second Street network's thedailyiberian.secondstreetapp.com address. Two confirmed editions exist, 2022 and 2026, with nothing published for the years between them; the 2026 window ran January 21 through March 7 and is already closed. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.