56 contests with public online voting in Michigan — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
Ann Arbor · MLive / The Ann Arbor News
The MLive / Ann Arbor News regional fan vote for the best Washtenaw County-area prep football performance of the week. Embedded via poll.fm inside a dated mlive.com article — 10 nominees chosen by editors, approximately 1 vote per device per hour, closes Thursday morning, and puts three Division 1 city schools on the same ballot as Chelsea, Dexter, and Milan.
Detroit · Detroit Free Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at freep.com, run by the Detroit Free Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) on the SecondStreet platform, recognising the top Detroit-area high school athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed.
Flint · MLive / The Flint Journal
The MLive / Flint Journal weekly fan-vote poll for the top Genesee County prep football performance. Staff nominates 11–14 candidates, readers vote via an embedded poll.fm widget at mlive.com, and the ballot closes Thursday morning — two to three days earlier than the statewide SI poll serving the same state.
The High School on SI / SBLive statewide multi-sport fan vote for Michigan — runs year-round through basketball, hockey, soccer, and wrestling seasons at si.com/high-school/michigan. No account required, unlimited votes confirmed by the organizer, closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. PT. Separate from the fall football POTW; this is where Averie Zinn (Genesee) lands 54 points and 11 steals and still comes back as a repeat nominee the following week.
Jackson · MLive / Jackson Citizen Patriot
The MLive / Jackson Citizen Patriot regional fan vote for the best Jackson-area prep football performance of the week. Embedded on mlive.com via poll.fm — 1 vote per device per hour, closes Thursday morning, and covers a tight geographic field that includes Lumen Christi, Parma Western, Napoleon, and ten other county-area programs.
Lansing · Lansing State Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at lansingstatejournal.com run by the Lansing State Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring a top Greater Lansing and Mid-Michigan high school athlete each week of the MHSAA sports calendar. One vote per hour per device, no account required.
Statewide Michigan · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
SI / SBLive Michigan's summer preseason vote names a Top QB pick before MHSAA fall practice starts, one ballot in a series the organizer runs position by position rather than as a single combined preseason team. The 2025 cycle is confirmed; exact dates and any vote cap aren't published yet.
The High School on SI statewide Michigan fan-vote poll, open each fall week at si.com/high-school/michigan with no account required, no vote cap (confirmed by the organizer), and a Sunday 11:59 p.m. close — the only Michigan football poll that spans every MHSAA division from Belleville D1 to Upper Peninsula D8 on one ballot.
Statewide Michigan · High School on SI / Sports Illustrated
Annual division-by-division fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/michigan, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Authentic Brands Group), recognising the top Michigan prep football player in each of the eight MHSAA classifications — D1 through D8 — each December following the state playoffs.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network / Turnin2 Softball
Annual statewide fan-vote and panel award at statechampsnetwork.com, powered by Turnin2 Softball, recognising the top girls softball player across all MHSAA divisions in Michigan each spring season — with online voting counting 20% of the selection criteria and a live championship-week announcement.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network / Michigan Elite Volleyball
Annual statewide fan-vote and editorial panel award at statechampsnetwork.com, run by State Champs! Sports Network in partnership with Michigan Elite Volleyball, honouring the top girls volleyball player across all MHSAA divisions each fall — with online voting counting 20% of the weighted selection criteria and a live announcement timed to MHSAA Volleyball Finals week at Kellogg Arena, Battle Creek.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network
Annual statewide Michigan honor by State Champs! Sports Network recognizing the top high school hockey player in Michigan; a public online fan vote at statechampsnetwork.com is part of the selection formula, following the same 20%-weighted model State Champs! uses across its other Michigan Player of the Year awards.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network
Annual statewide Michigan award by State Champs! Sports Network (sponsored by Hungry Howie's) recognising the top high school football player in Michigan; a public fan vote at statechampsnetwork.com counts for 20% of the final selection score and the vote winner automatically enters the Final Four each November.
The public online vote run by the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) for its annual induction class, spanning five categories — Amateur, Professional, Coach, Media, and Contributor — with voting open through mid-June. The induction ceremony follows every December at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit. Statewide, all sports, all eras — a career and legacy ballot, not a single-week or single-season poll.
Bay City · MLive / Bay City Times (Advance Local)
Weekly fan-vote poll on mlive.com for the Bay City and mid-Michigan thumb region, run by MLive / Bay City Times (Advance Local) via poll.fm. Eleven nominees per week; cap rules unconfirmed — check the active ballot. The confirmed 2024 winner, John Glenn's Lukas Gies, took 42% in an 11-player field, while Grand Rapids' sibling poll caps votes at one per hour per device.
Grand Rapids · MLive / The Grand Rapids Press (Advance Local)
Free weekly high school sports fan poll at mlive.com covering West Michigan's Grand Rapids metro — run by MLive Media Group (Advance Local). Sport-specific polls each season; one vote per device per hour, no account required.
Kalamazoo · MLive / Kalamazoo Gazette (Advance Local)
MLive's weekly fan-vote poll on mlive.com recognizing standout southwest Michigan prep football performers. Editors nominate the field — as many as 44 in a single week — and fans vote via an embedded poll.fm ballot with no account required; the poll closes Thursday morning or Friday afternoon depending on the week.
Muskegon · MLive / Muskegon Chronicle (Advance Local)
Weekly free fan-vote poll on mlive.com recognizing outstanding high school football players across the Muskegon area, run by MLive Media Group (Advance Local) with polls embedded via poll.fm. Voting closes Thursday 9 a.m. — the only Michigan regional football poll with a confirmed close time.
Statewide Michigan · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Weekly fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming one standout Michigan prep athlete each week of the MHSAA calendar. Nominations go to [email protected]; the ballot closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. and the winner posts Monday. No account is required, and the organizer does not publish a per-day vote ceiling.
Statewide Michigan (Division 1 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 1-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's largest-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 1 state final. Voting is free, no purchase is necessary, and the window closes December 14 each year.
Statewide Michigan (Division 2 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 2-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's second-largest-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 2 state final. Voting is free; the window closes each December, with the exact date confirmed on the live article every cycle.
Statewide Michigan (Division 3 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 3-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's mid-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 3 state final. Voting is free; the confirmed cycle runs in December, with the exact close date verified on that year's live article.
Statewide Michigan (Division 4 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 4-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's smaller-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 4 state final. Voting is free, and the most recently confirmed window closed December 15, a fixed date not every sibling division shares.
Statewide Michigan (Division 7 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 7-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's second-smallest 11-player MHSAA football classification after the Division 7 state final. Voting is free; SI has not published a fixed December close date specific to this division in the confirmed record.
Statewide Michigan (Division 8 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 8-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the smallest enrollment band in the state's eleven-man MHSAA football ladder, one step above 8-player football. Voting is free; SI has not published a fixed December close date specific to this division in the confirmed record.
Grand Rapids · WZZM13 / 13 On Your Sidelines
The WZZM13 "13 On Your Sidelines" weekly fan vote covering high school football in fall and boys basketball in winter across the Greater Grand Rapids metro. Voting opens Monday and closes Thursday at 5:30 p.m. — mid-week, mid-afternoon — a hard stop that most voters never see coming.
YourChoiceAwards' readers-choice business awards for Monroe County, Michigan, at yourchoiceawards.com/monroecounty/. The confirmed 2026 cycle ran a Nomination Round May 1-22 and a Voting Round July 7-21, already closed as of this record. It runs on the same YourChoiceAwards platform as Detroit and Lansing's own Michigan editions.
YourChoiceAwards Northern MI's annual readers-choice program at yourchoiceawards.com/northmi, spanning more than 120 categories and recognizing 360-plus businesses across Petoskey, Traverse City, and the wider Northern Lower Peninsula, with the live site as the only confirmed source for each cycle's exact dates and category list.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, hosts its readers' choice business ballot at annarbor.communityvotes.com. Nominations for 2026 run May 16 through September 13. Beyond that window, no category list and no listed vote cap appear; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Grand Rapids is a nominate-then-vote business ballot running at grandrapids.communityvotes.com for Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2026 marks its fifth straight confirmed year since 2022, with the window open May 16 through September 13. Neither categories nor a vote cap show up anywhere on the site; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Lansing runs a community-nominated business ballot out of Michigan's state capital, at lansing.communityvotes.com. Nominations for 2026 are open May 16 through September 13, a third straight confirmed year following 2024 and 2025. A category breakdown and a vote-stage cap stay unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Livonia is a locally run business recognition ballot for Livonia, Michigan, at livonia.communityvotes.com, confirmed for three editions, 2022, 2024, and 2026, with nothing published for 2023 or 2025. The 2026 window is open May 16 through September 13; confirm categories and vote caps on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes has run its Saginaw, Michigan ballot for five straight years, 2022 through 2026, longer than most CommunityVotes markets in the state. It's hosted at saginaw.communityvotes.com for the Saginaw County seat. The 2026 nomination window runs May 16 through September 13. Past that window, the page names no category list and no separate vote cap; check the live ballot each cycle for either detail.
Detroit gets its Community's Choice Awards from the Detroit Free Press, whose Second Street ballot system sits at freep.gannettcontests.com. Four editions have now closed out, 2023 into 2026, with the most recent window opening March 26 and ending May 1. 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.
A Michigan 501(c)(3) honoring Detroit-area musicians across national, regional, and local tiers, run through detroitmusicawards.net with voter registration required before ballots become visible.
Detroit News's annual Readers' Choice is a business readers-choice ballot run through the third-party SecondStreet platform, confirmed active for the 2025 cycle and structurally separate from Metro Times', Hour Detroit's, and Detroit Free Press's own Detroit-area reader-vote programs, each counting its own votes independently.
The Daily News's annual readers-choice ballot for Iron Mountain and the Upper Peninsula, run online at thedailynews.cc. The confirmed 2025 edition used a year-stamped URL, rca2025, rather than a permanent voting address, meaning the current cycle's page name should be searched for fresh rather than reused from an old bookmark.
Annual Grand Rapids Magazine readers-choice poll covering West Michigan, a single open ballot across roughly 100 categories with no separate nomination round, now in its 16th consecutive year as of 2025.
HBA of Greater Grand Rapids' Spring Parade of Homes, billed as West Michigan's largest new-home parade, most recently confirmed for May 30 through June 7, 2025. The Parade includes a People's Choice award; the exact voting mechanic isn't published on hbaglbr.com in the record checked for this guide.
Home Builders Association of Michigan runs the Southeast Michigan Parade of Homes, confirmed for June 1 through 30, 2026, and described by the statewide association as Michigan's largest home-building event. A People's Choice vote runs alongside the home tours; how that vote actually gets cast isn't spelled out anywhere on hbaofmichigan.com that this guide located.
Hour Detroit Magazine's annual Best of Detroit readers-choice awards, drawing over 1 million votes each June cycle across six groups, Food, Bars, Museums, Shops, Salons, and Personalities, with winners celebrated at the Best of Detroit Party at the Westin Book Cadillac, run separately from Metro Times' own Best of Detroit ballot.
The Kalamazoo HBA's Parade of Homes People's Choice ballot lives at kalamazoohomepage.com/peopleschoice and opens only during the parade's own event window. Visitors who tour the show homes cast the vote, so a campaign built around a fixed calendar date rather than the actual tour dates will find the page closed.
Lakeshore HBA runs the Parade of Homes People's Choice award in the Holland/Zeeland area of West Michigan, confirmed to open the first two weekends of June at lakeshoreparadeofhomes.com. The exact voting mechanic, cap, and category list aren't published anywhere located for this guide; the live site is the only source each cycle.
YourChoiceAwards Lansing's annual readers-choice program for Michigan's capital city and the wider Greater Lansing area, run on a Gannett platform at yourchoiceawards.com/lansing, with the 2025 cycle's winners and finalists confirmed as published and the program run separately from the local outlet City Pulse.
The Lowell Ledger, covering Lowell, Michigan, runs Best of the Best on a Second Street ballot hosted through The Daily News's platform account at thedailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. The confirmed window runs July 25 through September 14, 2026, the program's first confirmed edition. Whether a second edition follows, and what categories or limits might eventually govern it, stays unpublished for now; the live ballot is what eventually answers each of those questions.
Macomb County government's annual business recognition program, combining a judged panel with open community nominations, honoring employers across Sterling Heights, Warren, Clinton Township, and the rest of Macomb County at a May gala.
Annual Detroit Metro Times readers-choice poll for the Detroit metro area, with a write-in nomination ballot across 100+ categories decided entirely by public reader votes.
MI Home Paper runs an annual Best of the Best readers' poll across its network of West and Southwest Michigan community papers, voting on a shared ballot portal at mihomepaper.com/best-of-the-best/. The exact list of participating papers, categories, and close date isn't detailed in the public record.
MLive's West Michigan Readers' Choice program runs on the SecondStreet voting platform at mlive.secondstreetapp.com, covering the Kent, Ottawa, and Kalamazoo county metro area under Advance Local's MLive newsroom. It's a confirmed, separate ballot from Grand Rapids Magazine's Best of GR, with exact categories and dates set on the live site each cycle.
Traverse Magazine's annual Up North readers' poll — nominate, then vote, for favorite dining, lodging, shopping, real estate, and service businesses across the Grand Traverse region.
The Daily News, covering Montcalm County and Ionia County, Michigan, runs Gridiron Fan Picks on the Second Street platform at thedailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2025 and 2026, with the second of those two windows running August 22 through November 6. Past that window, what the ballot actually allows for categories or a vote limit is what the live page itself settles, confirmed fresh each cycle.
WDIV-TV's annual Metro Detroit readers-choice program, run through ClickOnDetroit, where the public nominates and then votes for favorite local businesses across roughly 80 categories before results air on the station.
West Michigan's Favorite Tattoo Artist is WGRD-FM's annual fan-vote contest, run at wgrd.com. The confirmed 2018 edition took over 3,000 nominations down to a top twenty, then opened voting from noon Tuesday, September 11 through 11:59 p.m. Monday, September 17. Archived pages also show the contest live in 2026, with day-level dates unconfirmed for that year.
Favorite West Michigan High School Mascot is WKFR-FM's fan vote for high schools across the region, run directly at wkfr.com. Archived pages show the contest active across eight separate years between 2018 and 2026, with one earlier version of the page recording a Monday, September 10th, close in a past cycle. As of September 2026, wkfr.com does not publish a school roster, a category roster, or a per-voter limit anywhere; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
WKFR-FM and sibling station WBCK (95.3 The Ticket) run the same Southwest Michigan burger vote every September. The confirmed 2021 cycle split into an eight-day nomination window and a two-week voting window, drawing nearly 3,000 votes. The current cycle's exact dates aren't confirmed anywhere on either station's site; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Best Burgers Kalamazoo is WKFR-FM's annual burger vote, syndicated to sibling Townsquare Media station WRKR (107.7 The Rocker), covering Kalamazoo County. The 2022 edition ran the full month of September. Beyond that confirmed window, neither station spells out fixed categories or a per-fan voting limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for either.
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