Missouri Online Voting Contests

KCTV5 Hy-Vee Team of the Week

The KCTV5 (CBS, Nexstar) weekly fan vote for the Kansas City metro's Hy-Vee Team of the Week, a team-based poll, not an individual-athlete ballot, covering high school programs on both the Missouri and Kansas sides of the metro. KCTV5 runs the embedded poll on its high school sports pages during the school sports calendar, and any visitor can vote for the school program they want to see recognized.

KSHB 41 Hy-Vee Athlete of the Week

The KSHB 41 (NBC, Scripps) weekly fan vote for the Kansas City metro's Hy-Vee Athlete of the Week, an individual-athlete ballot covering high school sports across the Missouri and Kansas sides of the metro. KSHB publishes and hosts the poll on its own sports pages, and the vote is a separate program from the team-based Hy-Vee poll a rival Kansas City station runs under the same sponsor name.

Missouri Baseball Player of the Year

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

Two Missouri baseball honors share a name but not a process: a statewide High School on SI fan vote at si.com/high-school/missouri/baseball, decided by public voting, and Gatorade's committee-selected Missouri Baseball Player of the Year, awarded in 2025 to a Jefferson City High School player with no public ballot involved.

Missouri Football All-State MVP

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

Season-ending honor from High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, naming Missouri's top prep football player after the MSHSAA season closes. Selection blends editorial review of full-season and playoff performance with reader/fan influence, not a stand-alone public vote. The 2025 MVP came from Platte County High School's program.

Missouri Football Defensive Player of the Year

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

Season-ending defensive honor from High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, naming Missouri's top prep defender once the MSHSAA postseason concludes. Selection blends editorial review of full-season and playoff defensive performance with reader input, not a stand-alone public vote. The 2025 honor went to a Blue Springs South High School defender.

Missouri Football Player of the Week

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

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, running the roughly ten-week MSHSAA football season from September through November. Nominees come from MSHSAA member programs statewide, voting is free with no account required, and the exact vote cap and weekly close time are posted inside each poll article.

Missouri Football Preseason All-State

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

Summer honor from High School on SI / SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri/football, naming a preseason All-Missouri football team across every MSHSAA classification before a single regular-season game is played. Selection blends editorial projection with reader/fan input during a summer voting window, distinct from the season's weekly and season-ending honors.

Missouri Girls Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri, covering girls basketball across all MSHSAA Classes 1-6. Missouri's 2025-26 season-end reveal named that year's Player of the Year alongside statewide honors. Free to vote, no account needed; the exact voting window is confirmed each cycle on the live article.

Missouri Girls Basketball Postseason Awards

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

High School on SI's Missouri postseason girls basketball awards article, published at si.com/high-school/missouri once the MSHSAA tournament series concludes, pairs a fan vote with the season's honors slate across Classes 1-6. Free to vote, no account needed; the exact window and cap are confirmed on the live article each postseason.

Missouri High School Athlete of the Week

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

Statewide Missouri fan-vote recognition at si.com, run weekly by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive). Covers all MSHSAA member schools from Class 1 through Class 6. One vote per six hours per person; automated voting prohibited; polls close Sunday 11:59 p.m. CT and the winner is announced the following week.

Missouri High School Baseball Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Missouri prep baseball performance of the week. Twenty nominees each week, unlimited voting, no account required — and a close day that shifts between Sunday and Monday 11:59 p.m. Central depending on the week.

Missouri High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual mid-season boys basketball fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri, open statewide across all MSHSAA Classes 1–6. Ballot published each January; free to vote with no account needed; winner decided by raw fan-vote total.

Missouri High School Football Player of the Week

The Sports Illustrated High School statewide fan vote for the best Missouri prep football performance of the week. SI editors nominate 14–31 players from all six MSHSAA classes plus 8-man; anyone can vote with no account or cap, but the poll closes Sunday or Monday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — and that variability is the first thing every voter needs to check.

Missouri High School Player of the Year

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

Annual mid-season boys basketball fan vote hosted by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/missouri, covering all MSHSAA member schools statewide. Open for approximately one week mid-January; no account required; voting window announced in the article each season.

Missouri Softball Top Returner Vote

Statewide Missouri · SI/SBLive (High School on SI)

A single preseason fan vote from SI/SBLive at si.com/high-school/missouri, asking which softball player returns as Missouri's top player for the 2025 fall season. Missouri schedules softball in autumn, not spring, a quirk shared with football and volleyball rather than the state's spring baseball calendar.

Springfield News-Leader Athlete of the Week

Springfield · Springfield News-Leader

The Springfield News-Leader's weekly fan vote covers all MSHSAA sports, year-round, for metro southwest Missouri schools. Reader email nominations feed the ballot; anyone can vote unlimited times — but the poll closes Friday at 10 a.m., not Sunday night like SI's Missouri polls.

A-List St. Louis Magazine

St. Louis · St. Louis Magazine

St. Louis Magazine's annual A-List Readers' Choice Awards, a write-in nomination round followed by a public finalist vote across roughly 150 categories, with results printed in the September issue.

Best of 417

417 Magazine's annual Best of 417 readers-choice program serves Springfield, Missouri and the surrounding 417-land region. Nominees are compiled first, then the public votes at 417mag.com/best-of-417/readers-choice/, and editors' own input factors into the final result alongside that reader tally rather than deciding it as a pure vote count.

Best of KC

Kansas City Magazine's annual Best of KC readers-choice ballot, a nominate-then-vote survey across 300+ categories with 200,000+ submissions and votes recorded in 2026, no pay-to-play.

Best of Southwest Missouri

A Springfield-area readers-choice ballot run at shopswmo.com, separate from 417 Magazine's own contest, covering more than 190 categories across Southwest Missouri businesses and services.

Columbia Missourian Reader's Choice Awards

Columbia · Columbia Missourian

Columbia Missourian's annual Reader's Choice Awards, a business-by-category readers' poll run by the University of Missouri's teaching newspaper at columbiamissourian.com, confirmed active for the 2025 cycle across Columbia and Boone County.

Columbia MO CommunityVotes

Columbia MO CommunityVotes runs on the syndicated CommunityVotes platform at communityvotes.com, an active 2025 ballot for Columbia, Missouri businesses in a Mizzou university market. It is a separate operation from the Columbia Missourian's own newspaper readers'-choice ballot, with its own franchise-style voting mechanics.

CommunityVotes Independence

Independence's CommunityVotes ballot has a notable gap: confirmed editions run in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2026. Archived pages also show 2025, though that year alone isn't confirmed. The ballot itself is hosted at independence.communityvotes.com for Independence, Missouri. The 2026 nomination window is confirmed open May 15 through September 13, though what happens past that point is thinner: this page finds no fixed category list and no stated vote cap, so the live ballot each cycle is the only real source for both.

CommunityVotes Kansas City

CommunityVotes' own business readers-choice ballot for Kansas City, Missouri, at kansascity.communityvotes.com. The 2026 nomination period is confirmed open from June 2 to September 27, with a named featured supporter already listed on the live site. It runs separately from Kansas City Magazine's Best of KC and the CommunityVotes network's own St. Joseph and Columbia, Missouri markets.

CommunityVotes Lee's Summit

Most of Missouri's readers'-choice ballots answer to a local magazine. CommunityVotes Lee's Summit doesn't; it runs on the same national CommunityVotes network as Columbia's own edition, at leessummit.communityvotes.com. Archived pages confirm four straight editions, 2023 through 2026. The 2026 nomination window runs May 15 through September 13. Past that window, Lee's Summit's page doesn't publish a category list, and it doesn't publish a vote cap at all. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes O'Fallon

O'Fallon, Missouri hosts its own page inside the CommunityVotes network, organized through a local partner rather than a newspaper or magazine staff, at ofallon.communityvotes.com. The confirmed public history behind that page covers two rounds so far, an earlier one in 2023 and the current round labeled for 2026, open for nominations May 15 through September 13. The page itself frames the ballot as open to "the community," and what happens once that window closes, from a category roster to a per-voter limit, is left for O'Fallon's own page to answer; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Springfield

Springfield · CommunityVotes Springfield

Four confirmed editions, 2022 through 2026 with one quiet year in between, back CommunityVotes Springfield, the CommunityVotes network's business poll for Springfield, Missouri. The 2026 window at springfieldmo.communityvotes.com runs May 15 through September 13. Whether categories exist or a vote cap applies isn't answered anywhere published, so treat Springfield's live ballot as the only place to confirm either one each cycle.

Feast Magazine FEAST 50

St. Louis · Feast Magazine

Feast Magazine's annual FEAST 50, published as "Our Readers' 50 Food Faves," names 50 St. Louis area food and drink honorees each year by blending reader input with the magazine's current editorial picks, a different mechanism from the region's other two best-of ballots.

Joplin Globe Favorites of the Four States

Favorites of the Four States has run longer than most ballots like it, five confirmed rounds between 2022 and 2026, hosted by the Joplin Globe at joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com. The most recent, in 2026, ran March 16 through June 20. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Kansas City Magazine's Best of KC

Kansas City · Kansas City Magazine

Kansas City Magazine's Best of KC readers-choice program at kansascitymag.com, run separately from The Pitch's own Best of KC ballot. The magazine published for years as 435 Magazine before its current rebrand. Voting runs through a third-party-administered platform under a no-pay-to-play policy; confirm categories and dates on the live site.

KC Parade of Homes People's Choice

KCHBA's KC Parade of Homes runs twice a year, a Spring and a Fall home tour, each carrying two named awards, Pick of the Parade and Distinctive Plan & Design. The 2025 Spring cycle's results were announced April 30, 2025. Voting details live at kc.paradeofhomes.io, backed by KCHBA's main site, kchba.org.

KQTV Best of St. Joe

St. Joseph · KQTV

St. Joseph, Missouri's Best of St. Joe readers' poll runs through KQTV's Second Street ballot at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. Nine straight editions are confirmed between 2017 and 2025; the latest one opened February 14 and closed April 21, 2025. No category list or vote cap shows up on that page; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle before nominations open again.

KQTV Fans Choice

Unlike Missouri's magazine-run best-of polls, KQTV's Fans Choice runs as a nomination-and-voting ballot through Second Street at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. The 2025 edition opened August 29 and closed November 14, 2025, the program's second confirmed year after 2024's cycle at the same address. Neither a rundown of ballot categories nor a supporter voting limit shows up past that closed window; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle once the next Fans Choice cycle opens.

KQTV Play of the Week

KQTV Play of the Week is a Missouri television station's weekly video vote for a standout play, hosted on the Second Street platform at kq2.secondstreetapp.com. This is not a single annual ballot: archived pages span six seasons, 2020 through 2025, built from dozens of separate weekly cycles, with one archived week numbered as high as Week 17. The most recently confirmed weekly window, in the 2025 season, ran October 28 through October 31. Which sport the plays come from, any category breakdown, and a vote-cap rule are not published; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

Missouri's Best

Missouri Magazine's statewide readers-choice ballot, roughly 80 categories, open to businesses anywhere in Missouri rather than one metro area, with online public voting each June.

News-Press NOW Readers' Choice

Missouri's News-Press NOW hosts a Readers' Choice ballot on the Second Street platform, reachable at newspressnow.secondstreetapp.com. Rather than splitting nominations from a later vote, the listing folds both into a single round; the stretch that closed on February 26, 2026 after opening January 8 marks the organization's second confirmed year, following 2025. Nothing published names a host city, breaks the ballot into categories, or says how often a single supporter may cast a vote; confirm each of those on the live ballot each cycle.

Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis

St. Louis · Riverfront Times

Riverfront Times' annual Best of St. Louis readers' poll at vote.riverfronttimes.com, spanning arts and entertainment, restaurants, services, and sports, still running online after the paper's 2024 sale ended its print edition.

Southeast Missourian People's Choice Awards

The Southeast Missourian's annual People's Choice Awards, a southeast Missouri readers'-choice program run by the Cape Girardeau daily at semissourian.com, with 2025 results announced September 27, 2025. The exact category list and vote structure aren't published anywhere checked for this guide, so confirm them on semissourian.com each cycle.

Springfield Community's Choice Awards

Springfield, Missouri's Community's Choice Awards is organized by the Springfield News-Leader on news-leader.gannettcontests.com. Four editions are now confirmed, 2023 through 2026, and the 2026 ballot's window ran July 6 through July 21 before closing. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

St. Joseph CommunityVotes

St. Joseph · CommunityVotes

St. Joseph CommunityVotes is the Northwest Missouri edition of the shared CommunityVotes readers'-choice platform, running an active 2025 online ballot at stjoseph.communityvotes.com. It's a separate program from Missouri's magazine-run best-of polls in St. Louis and Kansas City, built on the same town-by-town platform Columbia, Missouri, also uses.

St. Louis Magazine A-List

St. Louis · St. Louis Magazine

St. Louis Magazine's A-List Readers' Choice Awards, run at stlmag.com/alist, draws roughly 130,000 category nominations and about 360,000 votes each year, capped at one vote per category per day, with 2025 results confirming Shack Breakfast as the winner of Best Breakfast among dozens of local categories.

STL Headliner

St. Louis Post-Dispatch readers-choice business awards. 140+ categories, a top-5 finalist ballot, and one vote per category per day.

The Missourian Readers' Choice Awards

Washington · The Missourian

The Missourian's annual Readers' Choice Awards for Washington and Franklin County, Missouri, voted at missourian.com, with a confirmed Best Nurse category alongside broader local-business categories for the 2025 cycle. Not the Columbia Missourian or Southeast Missourian program, both separate operations covered elsewhere on this site.

The Pitch's Best of KC

Kansas City · The Pitch KC

The Pitch KC's annual Best of KC readers-choice program, run through a nomination round followed by public voting at vote.thepitchkc.com, a subdomain separate from the magazine's main site. The 2025 cycle logged 2,421 nominations and 407,793 votes, and the 2026 nomination round is open now.

Joplin Globe Cutest Pet Contest

Joplin · Joplin Globe

Unlike Missouri's business-focused readers'-choice polls, the Joplin Globe's Cutest Pet Contest is a photo vote for pets, run through Second Street at joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com and covering Joplin, Missouri. Two rounds are on the confirmed page, 2024 and 2025, with the 2025 vote running June 26 through July 27, 2025, closed once that window ended. Neither a species breakdown for dogs, cats and other pets nor a per-voter limit shows up in what's published, so anyone wanting either detail should watch joplinglobe.secondstreetapp.com directly once a new round is announced; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.