North Dakota Online Voting Contests

North Dakota High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide North Dakota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Free statewide weekly fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/north-dakota, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated). Open to all NDHSAA schools across Classes AAA, AA, A, and B. Voting is free with no per-vote cap; automated scripts trigger athlete disqualification.

North Dakota High School Player of the Year

Statewide North Dakota · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual statewide fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/north-dakota, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated). Distinct from the weekly Athlete of the Week poll, this is a single once-a-year ballot covering NDHSAA member schools statewide, decided purely by fan vote count.

Best of the Best – Best of the Midwest

Best of the Best – Best of the Midwest is an Upper Midwest readers-choice platform at bestofthemidwest.com that lists North Dakota businesses across multiple cities, Fargo, Bismarck, and Jamestown named specifically, on one shared ballot domain instead of a single-city page, with South Dakota communities also eligible under the same brand.

Best of the Best (Grand Forks)

The Grand Forks Herald's readers-choice ballot across 130+ categories spanning restaurants, retail, health care, and services, published by Forum Communications for the Grand Forks metro.

Best of the Best (Jamestown Area)

The Jamestown Sun's annual readers-choice ballot for Stutsman County and the surrounding Jamestown-area trade zone, now in its 17th year, with winners printed in the Best of the Midwest magazine insert distributed across Forum Communications papers.

Best of the Best (Minot Daily News)

The Minot Daily News's Best of the Best readers-choice ballot, run on the Ogden Newspapers promo portal with a nominate-then-vote structure and daily voting once the finalist round opens, now past two decades in the Minot, North Dakota market.

Bismarck Tribune Best of the Best

Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best readers-choice ballot runs on Lee Enterprises' bismarcktribune.secondstreetapp.com platform, a separate program from bismarck.communityvotes.com's CommunityVotes Bismarck. The 2025 nomination window closed June 25, confirmed on the Tribune's Facebook page, and a full winners PDF went up after the 2024 cycle.

CommunityVotes Bismarck

CommunityVotes Bismarck is Metroland Media's annual readers-choice program for North Dakota's capital market, run at bismarck.communityvotes.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed active; a category list, vote cap, and exact nomination or voting dates have not surfaced anywhere public for this guide.

CommunityVotes Fargo

CommunityVotes Fargo is Metroland Media's annual readers-choice program for North Dakota's largest market, run at fargo.communityvotes.com. The confirmed 2026 nomination window runs February 15 through June 7; whatever voting stage follows nominations has not been made public anywhere this page could locate.

CommunityVotes Grand Forks

CommunityVotes Grand Forks, Metroland Media's annual readers-choice business awards for the Grand Forks metro, runs at grandforks.communityvotes.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed live; no fixed nomination window, category list, or vote cap has surfaced publicly, so the live site remains the only reliable source each cycle.

CommunityVotes Minot

CommunityVotes Minot is Metroland Media's annual readers-choice business program at minot.communityvotes.com. The 2025 cycle is confirmed; 2026 is expected to follow the same annual pattern but isn't independently confirmed live. No category list, nomination window, or vote cap has surfaced publicly for this specific market.

InForum Best of the Red River Valley

A 130+ category readers-choice ballot for Fargo-Moorhead: nominate, advance to finalists, then a fall vote that has topped 225,000 ballots in a single cycle.

Hot 97.5 Bismarck-Mandan Cutest Pet

Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota's Hot 97.5 Cutest Pet contest is an annual pet-photo vote run by the radio station KKCT at hot975fm.com. Eight confirmed editions span 2018 through 2026. An archived description of the format lays out two rounds: nominations narrow the field to five finalists, then a first round runs October 1 through October 8, and a second round for the top five closes October 15. No year is attached to that description. Whether a category roster or a per-supporter voting limit exists is likewise unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.