New Jersey Online Voting Contests

Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week

Asbury Park · Asbury Park Press / app.com

The Asbury Park Press (app.com) weekly fan vote for the top prep athlete across Monmouth and Ocean counties — any sport, any season. Sponsored by Larson Ford, hosted on app.com and syndicated to Yahoo Sports, and closes Monday at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week

The Courier-Post / Atlantic City Electric weekly fan vote for South Jersey high school girls basketball — run by Gannett on courierpostonline.com and syndicated to Yahoo Sports. Fifteen-nominee ballot covering the Cape-Atlantic League, Colonial Conference, SICL, and Tri-County Conference, closing Sunday with a per-device voting pattern unlike the unlimited SI polls.

Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball

The weekly Jersey Sports Zone fan vote for New Jersey high school football's "Game Ball." Reporters nominate standout performances from North, Central, and South Jersey on a single statewide ballot, and fans vote for the week's winner through Tuesday 3:00 p.m.

New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide fan vote for New Jersey's best boys basketball performance of the week. SI editors nominate eight players from across all NJSIAA sections; anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — one day earlier than the statewide football polls.

New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week

The High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best New Jersey prep football performance of the week. SI editors pick the nominees from all NJSIAA sections and non-public divisions, anyone can vote without an account, and the poll closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a day earlier than some regional counterparts, which concentrates the decisive push into Sunday afternoon.

New Jersey High School Player of the Year

Statewide New Jersey · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Season-end fan-vote recognition programme run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/new-jersey, open to all NJSIAA-member schools statewide. Editors nominate standout athletes by sport after the season concludes; fans vote online with no per-vote cap until 11:59 p.m. Eastern on the published closing date.

NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week

A weekly fan vote from NJ MileSplit naming the top New Jersey boys track & field or cross country performer, run as a recurring series across three separate seasons each year: outdoor track in spring, cross country in fall, indoor track in winter, rather than a single season-long ballot.

NorthJersey.com Athlete of the Week

Woodland Park · NorthJersey.com / The Record (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan-vote poll at NorthJersey.com, run by The Record and Herald News (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring the standout North Jersey high school athlete each week of the NJSIAA sports calendar. One vote per hour per device, no login required. Covers Bergen and Passaic County schools.

Press of Atlantic City Athlete of the Week

Atlantic City · The Press of Atlantic City (Lee Enterprises)

Weekly fan poll at pressofatlanticcity.com selecting one standout Cape-Atlantic League prep athlete per week across South Jersey's Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, and Ocean County schools. The Press of Atlantic City (Lee Enterprises) runs the ballot; voting closes Friday at noon and the winner appears in Saturday's print edition.

Shore Sports Insider Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Shore Sports Insider's weekly Shore Conference boys basketball fan vote for Monmouth and Ocean counties, NJ. Ten nominees across eight divisional slots plus two wild cards — voting is limited to once per hour per voter, the ballot closes Saturday 10:00 AM, and the winner receives a Broad Street Dough Co. gift card.

Shore Sports Insider Girls Basketball Player of the Week

Shore Conference region · Shore Sports Insider

Shore Sports Insider's weekly fan vote for the best girls basketball performance in the Shore Conference (Monmouth and Ocean counties, NJ). Twelve nominees across eight divisions plus four wild cards; closes Friday at 10:00 PM; capped at one vote per hour — a harder mechanic than most regional polls in the state.

Shore Sports Insider Shore Conference Football Player of the Week

Shore Sports Insider runs three separate weekly fan-vote polls — Offensive, Defensive, and Special Teams — for Shore Conference football covering Monmouth and Ocean counties. Voting closes Wednesday at 10:00 PM, earlier than any other New Jersey football poll, and the Wednesday close is the one fact that trips up first-time campaigns.

94.3 The Point Monmouth County School Spirit Competition

WJLK-FM's 94.3 The Point runs the Monmouth County School Spirit Competition on its own site, 943thepoint.com, a radio bracket that narrows local schools through head-to-head voting rounds. Five editions are confirmed: 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025, and 2026. One archived Round 2 page recorded voting closing at 11:59 p.m. on a Sunday, October 14, though no year is attached to that page, and no category roster, vote cap, or current-round date is published; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice

Asbury Park Press runs its own Gannett-platform readers' choice ballot at app.com, covering Monmouth and Ocean Counties. It sits alongside, but is not the same program as, the YourChoiceAwards-branded Ocean County Community's Choice Awards that APP also co-sponsors, and Regional Media's unrelated Best of Jersey Shore Contest.

Bergen & Morris Top Dentists

Two Health & Life Magazines rankings, Bergen Top Dentists and Morris Top Dentists, cover dentists across Bergen and Morris counties through a combined peer-and-reader process at healthandlifemags.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed; exact dentist counts and publish dates aren't public beyond that.

Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards

Bergen Record's county-level readers-choice program, run through the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/bergen/, taking Bergen County businesses through a nomination stage and multiple voting rounds rather than a single statewide ballot.

Best of Jersey Shore Contest

Regional Media's annual Jersey Shore readers-choice awards, running nominations across roughly 230 categories before daily public voting on finalists at bestofjerseyshore.com.

Best of New Jersey

NJBIZ's statewide Reader Rankings, a two-stage nominate-then-vote business awards ballot covering finance, real estate, education, retail, health care, and law.

Best of South Jersey

South Jersey Magazine's online readers' poll covering Camden, Burlington, Gloucester, and Atlantic counties, with categories spanning local businesses including confirmed recognition such as Top Dentists.

CommunityVotes Jersey City

CommunityVotes' annual public nomination-then-vote ballot for Jersey City businesses, run at jerseycity.communityvotes.com across restaurants, services, health, and beauty categories, with the 2026 cycle's nomination window confirmed for January 16 to May 10.

CommunityVotes Newark

Metroland's CommunityVotes readers-choice program for Newark, New Jersey, run at newark.communityvotes.com. As of this record the 2026 cycle has already closed: winners were announced in June 2026, with made-to-order awards taking 6-8 weeks to arrive. It is a separate program from CommunityVotes Jersey City, run by the same network in a different Essex-County-adjacent market.

Health & Life Essex Readers' Choice

Essex · Health & Life Magazines

Health & Life Magazines runs Essex Readers' Choice out of Essex, New Jersey, publishing the ballot on its own site rather than a shared voting platform. The current cycle carries the label "2026," with its voting window confirmed to December 2025 on the live page. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2025 and 2026. No published roster of categories and no daily-vote rule exist on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice

Jersey Bites runs a Monmouth County readers' choice covering six named food categories, Romantic, Seafood, Waterfront, Breakfast, Pizza, and Burgers, voted online at jerseybites.com. It's a food-only ballot from a dining blog, not a general business award like its Jersey Shore neighbors.

Jersey Choice Restaurant Poll

New Jersey Monthly's statewide dining readers' poll, split into North, Central, and South regional ballots across dozens of restaurant categories, now in its 42nd consecutive year.

Jersey Choice Top Dentists

New Jersey Monthly's Jersey Choice Top Dentists names 614 dentists across 11 specialties, chosen by fellow dentists asked which peers they would send their own families to. Results publish each July at njmonthly.com/find-a-dentist/. There is no public ballot; the public cannot nominate or vote.

MyCentralJersey / Home News Tribune Readers' Choice

MyCentralJersey, the Home News Tribune's Gannett-network site, runs an online readers' choice ballot for Central New Jersey, covering Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, and Union Counties. It's a separate program from Gannett's own Asbury Park Press ballot at the Shore and from New Jersey's other readers'-choice contests.

NJ Top Docs

NJ Top Docs is a statewide New Jersey physician recognition program combining nomination and voting, confirmed at njtopdocs.com. Dr. Joseph A. Bordieri is among the 2026 confirmed honorees. It's the more public-facing member of a small group of New Jersey medical-recognition lists, several of which skip a public vote entirely.

NJ.com Best of NJ

NJ.com and the Star-Ledger's statewide Best of NJ program, combining editorial selections with a reader-participation component across New Jersey's largest digital news platform.

Ocean County Community's Choice Awards

Toms River · Asbury Park Press (YourChoiceAwards)

A county-level readers-choice program for Ocean County, New Jersey, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform with Asbury Park Press involvement, covering more than 540 nominated businesses across the Toms River and Brick area through a nomination round followed by voting rounds.

Sussex County Community's Choice Awards

Sussex County Community's Choice Awards runs on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/sussex/, covering the Newton and Vernon areas of Sussex County, New Jersey. Confirmed mechanics are a nomination stage followed by voting rounds; category count, vote totals, and exact dates should be checked on the live page each cycle.

The Jersey Shore's Best Sweet Shop

WJLK's My Beach Radio runs The Jersey Shore's Best Sweet Shop at mybeachradio.com, asking readers across the Jersey Shore to vote a favorite shop into its Valentine's-themed Cupid Club. Archived pages show this vote running every year from 2021 through 2025, and the station's own page states that voting happens exclusively through its mobile app rather than a separate ballot form. Exact opening and closing dates for the current cycle, along with any per-voter limit, are not published on the page itself, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming either one.

The Press of Atlantic City Readers' Choice

The Press of Atlantic City runs an online Readers' Choice ballot covering Atlantic and Cape May counties, the shore region that includes Atlantic City itself and the summer resort towns around it. The paper's own site hosts the ballot, and turnout here tracks the region's sharp seasonal swing between year-round residents and summer crowds.

WSJO First Day of School Photo Contest

WSJO's First Day of School Photo Contest narrows entries to 10 finalists, then lets the public vote for a winner at sojo1049.com. An earlier version of the page put the close at midnight on September 21st in a past cycle, with the contest filed under the station's own Parenting and Photos tags. Exact 2026 dates and rules: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

94.5 PST Pet Costume Contest

WPST, a New Jersey radio station, runs the 94.5 PST Pet Costume Contest as an annual pet-photo vote on its own site at wpst.com. Seven confirmed editions span 2020 through 2026, each one landing in October. More than 50 pets have entered for one grand prize, dressed as everything from dragons and super dogs to peacocks and Pokemon characters, per the contest's own page. A costume-category list, a vote cap, and day-level dates are not published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Cutest Dad in Hudson County (Hoboken Girl)

Hoboken Girl, the Hudson County lifestyle blog covering Hoboken and Jersey City, runs Cutest Dad in Hudson County entirely on its own site at hobokengirl.com rather than through an outside voting platform. Four editions are confirmed: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The archived 2021 page set the nomination deadline as Thursday, June 10, then told readers to watch for what followed. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.