Moore Monthly Best of Moore and South OKC: How Voting Works & How to Win

Moore Monthly's own community ballot, not a syndicated platform

Moore Monthly is a community magazine covering Moore, Oklahoma and the neighborhoods on the south side of OKC, and Best of Moore and South OKC is its own readers'-choice program, run directly on mooremonthly.com rather than through one of the syndicated ballot platforms other publishers use. Moore itself gives the ballot half its name, with south OKC forming the other half of Moore Monthly's stated coverage area.

The program runs in two stages each year: a write-in nomination stage, where readers suggest local businesses, people and things by name, followed by a separate voting stage built from whatever names came out of that first round. The confirmed 2025 voting stage closed at midnight on January 16, 2025.

Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since Moore Monthly has not settled either detail into a fixed published rule across any of its three confirmed editions so far.

Three confirmed editions, and a longer archived presence behind them

2024, 2025 and 2026 are the three editions Moore Monthly has actually confirmed for this ballot, each carrying its own voting page at mooremonthly.com. Archived pages show 2019 as well, well before any of those three confirmed voting rounds. A business should read that earlier trace as evidence the magazine existed long before this specific ballot took its current confirmed shape, not as proof of extra rounds.

By the time the 2025 voting page itself was live, Moore Monthly had already closed its write-in nomination stage and thanked readers who submitted names, meaning nominating and voting are handled as genuinely separate steps rather than one combined form. The voting stage itself is confirmed closed at midnight, January 16, 2025. That 2025 edition drew more than 13,000 votes, with results announced at a gala held at the Riverwind Casino Showplace Theater on March 11.

What that means heading into the next cycle

With three straight years of a January voting close, a Moore-area business has a rough season to plan around even without an exact date announced in advance. Whether the 2026 cycle's own nomination and voting stages land on the same calendar pattern is not something Moore Monthly has published ahead of time; confirm on the live ballot each cycle once a new cycle actually opens.

Not the only 'Best of' ballot serving the OKC metro

Moore sits inside a metro area with more than one reader-vote program already running, and a business chasing recognition should know which one it is actually entering.

Each of the six other programs above counts its own nominations and its own votes independently of Moore Monthly's tally. A Moore business that places well in its own magazine's ballot has not thereby placed in any of the wider metro programs, and a Norman or Claremore result carries no weight on Moore Monthly's own page either.

Building support around a small publisher's own calendar

Moore Monthly is a community magazine, not a national platform processing votes for dozens of unrelated markets, and that changes what a sensible push looks like. Reaching actual customers by name, then following up with them again before the voting stage closes, fits how a program this size is actually run and watched.

A magazine covering one community closely is positioned to notice a sudden, unexplained spike in activity faster than a large syndicated platform juggling many markets at once, and a flag would cost standing with a publication a Moore business likely deals with well beyond one ballot cycle. is buying votes legal sets out the legal boundary before any budget goes toward this kind of push, buying votes online explains how paid support for a two-stage ballot like this typically gets structured, and award-vote campaign planning covers the readers'-choice format specifically.