Pennsylvania Online Voting Contests

Morning Call Athlete of the Week

The Morning Call, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, puts a new Lehigh Valley high school athlete up for a public vote every week at mcall.secondstreetapp.com. Three seasons are confirmed so far, 2024-25, 2025-26 and 2026-27, and the 2026-27 season's own Week 1 vote already closed on September 3, 2026. Which week is open right now, and what its rules are, is what the live ballot actually settles.

Mr. PA Football

Statewide Pennsylvania · MrPAFootball.com

Independent annual Pennsylvania high school football awards at mrpafootball.com, presented by Sports Recruiters; a five-round public web vote (one vote per day, fans equal to coaches and media) crowns separate Big School (4A-6A) and Small School (1A-3A) Player of the Year winners at the Hershey, PA banquet each March.

PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Harrisburg · PennLive.com

PennLive's regional fan vote for the top boys basketball performance of the week across the Mid-Penn Conference corridor — central Pennsylvania from Harrisburg to State College. Published vote totals make it one of the few Pennsylvania prep polls where you can see exactly how many votes won.

Pennsylvania High School Athlete of the Week

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

Weekly statewide fan poll published by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/pennsylvania, recognising standout PIAA athletes across all twelve districts and classifications 1A–6A. Free to vote, no account required, closes Friday 11:59 p.m. PT each week.

Pennsylvania High School Baseball Player of the Year

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

Annual spring fan-vote award by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/pennsylvania, recognising the top PIAA baseball player across all twelve districts and classifications 1A–6A each May–June. Free to vote, no account required.

Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week

High School on SI's football-only statewide fan vote, drawing nominees from all twelve PIAA districts and classifications 1A through 6A. Closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a full day before Monday-close regional polls in states like Texas. No per-period cap on manual votes. Runs from Week 0 in late August through the PIAA state championship rounds in December.

Pennsylvania High School Player of the Year

Statewide Pennsylvania · Mr. PA Football (mrpafootball.com)

Annual statewide football POY award administered by Mr. PA Football (mrpafootball.com), decided by a tri-partite vote — fans (one vote per day), coaches, and media each contribute one-third — across multiple elimination rounds, culminating at a Hershey banquet. Separate Big School (4A–6A) and Small School (1A–3A) trophies.

Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year

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

Annual spring fan-vote award by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated) at si.com/high-school/pennsylvania, choosing the top PIAA softball player across all twelve districts and classifications 1A–6A each June. Free, no account required, multiple votes allowed. The ballot lives inside a single article — find it fast, because the window is narrow.

WICU Athlete of the Year

WICU-TV runs Athlete of the Year, a Pennsylvania fan-vote sports award, on Second Street at wicu.secondstreetapp.com. Seven confirmed editions back it, 2020 through 2026, a longer run than any other WICU-TV promotion currently listed. The 2025-2026 round closed June 24 after opening May 27, and unlike several sibling ballots in this state, WICU-TV's own page names no single city for the vote.

WPXI Skylights Player of the Week

WPXI Channel 11's weekly Skylights ballot for the WPIAL's standout football performance, drawn from four counties of Pittsburgh-metro coverage. Five nominees, free voting, RE/MAX Select Realty sponsors it, September through November.

WTAE Operation Football Play of the Week

WTAE-TV's weekly Pittsburgh-market fan vote for the best WPIAL football play, not the best player. Station sports staff narrow each week's field to roughly three nominated plays; the public picks the winner at wtae.com and in the WTAE app. Runs weekly through the WPIAL regular season and into the postseason, September through November.

Best of Berks (Berks County Living Magazine)

Best of Berks is Berks County Living Magazine's online reader-vote program at berkscountyliving.com/best-of-berks/, covering Reading and the wider Berks County across four confirmed categories, food & drink, shopping, beauty, and nonprofit, the last one an unusual addition for a consumer readers-choice ballot.

Best of Lancaster (Lancaster County Magazine)

Lancaster County Magazine's Best of Lancaster is an annual online readers' survey at lancastercountymag.com/best-of-lancaster, with winners published in the magazine's November-December issue rather than a live results page or per-business vote count, and no published hourly vote cap the way Pittsburgh's Best of the 'Burgh runs.

Best of Philly (Philadelphia Magazine)

Philadelphia Magazine's annual Best of Philly awards, documented at phillymag.com/best-of-philly-faq/ as mostly editorial selection by the magazine's own writers and editors, covering the Philadelphia metro, with only a handful of categories actually opened to a public reader vote each cycle, and that reader-voted list changing year to year.

Best of the 'Burgh

Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh Magazine

Pittsburgh Magazine's readers-choice awards, set apart from other Pittsburgh best-of programs by one rule: an hourly per-category vote cap, on a pure online reader ballot.

Best of the 'Burgh

Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh Magazine

Pittsburgh Magazine's readers-choice ballot across 8 category groups, gated by an hourly per-category vote cap rather than a daily or one-time limit.

Best of the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh Valley Style)

Lehigh Valley Style magazine's annual Best of the Lehigh Valley readers-choice poll, covering Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton across more than 100 categories in Food & Drink, Health & Self, Shopping & Services, and Fun & Games, with online voting January 12-February 8, 2026 and results in the July print edition.

Best of the Valley, PA Community's Choice Awards

Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania hosts Best of the Valley, PA Community's Choice Awards, run by Gannett through a USA TODAY Network local paper at yourchoiceawards.com/beaver. Two confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026, back a ballot covering the full category slate that moved through a February 6-27 nomination round and an April 15-29 voting round in 2026, with winners announced July 9. Anything past that structure is settled on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Warren County (Corry Journal)

Corry · Corry Journal

Where does the Corry Journal's Best of Warren County ballot actually run? At corryjournal.secondstreetapp.com, hosted by the Corry Journal, a Pennsylvania newspaper based in Corry, for a ballot whose own title names Warren County as its coverage area. 2024 and 2025 are both confirmed editions on the platform, and the 2025 nomination-and-voting window ran July 7 through August 22, 2025. Which award categories the ballot judges, and any per-voter limit, both stay unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice

Community's Choice Awards runs the Bucks County suburban newspapers' readers' choice ballot online at yourchoiceawards.com/buckscounty/, with Chester County's suburban papers named as part of the same coverage area. The confirmed live page to check, cast a vote, or verify a nomination is the Bucks County edition itself.

Bucks County Community's Choice Awards

PhillyBurbs.com, the Bucks County Courier Times' Gannett-owned news site, runs the Community's Choice Awards Showcase online ballot at phillyburbs.gannettcontests.com. Four confirmed editions have run, 2023 through 2026, with the 2026 edition's ballot window closing February 28, 2026. Past that date, the ballot's category list and any per-voter limit are what actually settle further specifics, confirmed fresh each cycle.

CommunityVotes Allentown

Allentown · CommunityVotes Allentown

Allentown's CommunityVotes ballot stands out from its Pennsylvania siblings for one reason: five confirmed editions in a row, 2022 through 2026, with no missing year, all at allentown.communityvotes.com. The live 2026 page confirms nominations open July 15 and close November 8. Once that window closes, which categories qualify and whether a vote cap exists both go unconfirmed; only the live ballot settles either question each cycle.

CommunityVotes Erie (Erie Times-News / GoErie)

Erie Times-News and GoErie run their readers' choice program on the CommunityVotes platform at erie.communityvotes.com, confirmed live as "CommunityVotes Erie 2026" with a nomination window from July 15 through November 8. It's a separate program from the Erie Reader's own Best of Erie.

CommunityVotes Reading

Reading · CommunityVotes Reading

Reading, Pennsylvania's own CommunityVotes ballot runs at reading.communityvotes.com for the city known locally as the Pretzel City. Archived pages tie the address to five straight confirmed editions, 2022 through 2026, with the live 2026 page putting nominations open from July 15 through November 8. Past that window, the page keeps both a category rundown and any vote cap unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Scranton (Times-Tribune)

The Times-Tribune runs its Scranton and Wilkes-Barre readers' choice program on the CommunityVotes platform at scranton.communityvotes.com, confirmed live as "CommunityVotes Scranton 2026" with nominations running July 15 through November 8, matching the same window Erie's edition uses.

Erie Reader Best of Erie

Erie Reader's Best of Erie runs in two stages: an open nomination round narrows each category to five finalists, then a separate final ballot decides the winner. The alt-weekly relaunched the process with updates in 2025, so a business that remembers an older single-round format should expect a different site experience now.

Harrisburg Builders Association Parade of Homes

The Harrisburg Builders Association runs an online people's-choice vote for its Parade of Homes at harrisburgbuilders.com/pa-parade-of-homes/, covering Central Pennsylvania's Harrisburg and Hershey market. It's a builder-only home tour, unrelated to Harrisburg Magazine's separate Simply the Best readers'-choice program.

Indiana Gazette Readers' Choice

The Indiana Gazette's annual Readers' Choice awards for Indiana County, Pennsylvania, home to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, not the state of Indiana. The public nominates and votes online at indianagazette.com for businesses around the county seat, Blairsville, Homer City, and Saltsburg.

LancasterOnline Readers' Choice

LancasterOnline's annual Readers' Choice ballot for Lancaster County, run by LNP Media Group at lancasteronline.com/readerschoice/, distinct from the separate Lancaster County Magazine Best of Lancaster survey covering the same county. Confirmed active for 2026, with category and cap details to verify on the live page each cycle.

LNP Lancaster City Window Decorating Contest

Lancaster · LancasterOnline (LNP Media Group)

LNP Media Group, publisher of LancasterOnline, runs the Lancaster City Window Decorating Contest on the Second Street network at lnpmediagroup.secondstreetapp.com. Five editions are confirmed: 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, and 2025, with the most recent window running November 28 through December 16, 2025, already closed. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Morning Call Readers' Choice

Allentown · The Morning Call

The Morning Call, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, publishes Readers' Choice on Second Street at mcall.secondstreetapp.com. Nine confirmed editions back it, 2018 through 2026, longer than most readers'-choice ballots in this network. The 2026 round ran July 12 through August 17, and past that closed window only the live page itself settles which categories ran or how a supporter's vote was limited.

Philly Favorites

Philadelphia · Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer's readers-choice awards, spanning 12 categories with 71 Eat & Drink subcategories alone, run as a nominate-then-vote ballot with one vote per day per category.

Reader Rankings (Lehigh Valley Business)

Lehigh Valley Business's Reader Rankings, an online reader vote covering the Lehigh Valley business community at lvb.com, a separate program from the identically named Reader Rankings polls run by business journals in Rochester and Maryland, with no published calendar of its own confirmed yet.

Simply the Best — Harrisburg Magazine

Harrisburg Magazine's annual Simply the Best readers-choice awards for Central Pennsylvania, covering Harrisburg, Hershey, York, and Lebanon. Nominations close February 20; public voting for the confirmed 2026 ballot runs April 15 through June 15, an eight-week gap sits between the two stages.

TribLIVE Best of the Best — Allegheny East

Pittsburgh · TribLIVE / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

TribLIVE's Best of the Best ballot for the Allegheny East region, a three-stage nominate, finalist-ballot, public-vote program across more than 130 categories covering Downtown Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Oakland, and the Strip District.

TribLIVE Best of the Best Allegheny North

Tribune-Review runs TribLIVE Best of the Best Allegheny North on the Second Street platform at tribweb.secondstreetapp.com. Three confirmed editions back the ballot, 2023 through 2025, with the most recent window open July 20 through October 6, 2025, and a next edition expected in 2026. A category roster and any per-voter limit go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

TribLIVE Best of the Best Allegheny Southwest

Unlike Pennsylvania's magazine-run readers' polls, TribLIVE Best of the Best Allegheny Southwest sits entirely on Tribune-Review's Second Street account at tribweb.secondstreetapp.com. 2023, 2024 and 2025 each brought a confirmed edition, and the 2025 window closed October 6 after opening July 20. No category roster or per-voter limit is printed; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Tribune-Review Best of the Best Westmoreland

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania's regional Best of the Best ballot is one of four Tribune-Review runs each fall across its Pittsburgh-area TribLIVE network, alongside Allegheny East, Allegheny North and Allegheny Southwest. Hosted on Second Street's tribweb.secondstreetapp.com platform, Westmoreland's 2026 voting round is open through October 5, and the program traces seven confirmed editions back to 2020. What categories the ballot covers and whatever cap applies to a single voter go unpublished on that page itself; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

York & Hanover Community's Choice Awards

The York Daily Record and York Dispatch run York & Hanover Community's Choice Awards at yourchoiceawards.com/york, an online ballot covering York County. Category detail, vote caps, and this cycle's close date aren't published beyond that page.

Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County and NJ Cutie Pie Calendar Contest

Morrisville · Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County & NJ

Confirmed years run 2014, then 2016 through 2024, backing the DRBC Cutie Pie Calendar Contest, a Bucks County, Pennsylvania rescue's own photo fundraiser that GoGo Photo Contest hosts at gogophotocontest.com/drbc. The live page confirms entries for the 2027 calendar open September 21, with a $20,000 fundraising goal posted right alongside the gallery. Past that, DRBC hasn't printed a category breakdown or a per-voter ceiling anywhere on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.