Tribune-Review Best of the Best Westmoreland: How Voting Works & How to Win

Tribune-Review's Westmoreland ballot, and where it sits inside a four-region program

Best of the Best Westmoreland is a readers-choice business ballot that Tribune-Review runs on tribweb.secondstreetapp.com, the Second Street platform address the newspaper uses for its whole Best of the Best lineup. The page carries a second name too: its own footer brands the program TribLIVE Best of the Best, so a supporter searching either name lands on the identical ballot.

Westmoreland is one region among four that Tribune-Review runs at the same time each fall. Its Allegheny East sister ballot settles a separate part of the Pittsburgh area under its own results, while Allegheny North and Allegheny Southwest fill out the remaining two regions on the same organizer's roster this cycle. Westmoreland's own results, once decided, apply to Westmoreland's category list alone.

Seven confirmed years, and the naming pattern behind each one

Archived editions span 2020 through 2026 on tribweb.secondstreetapp.com, each showing up under its own year-stamped address rather than a single page updated in place. Earlier cycles show separate pages for a nominations stage, a voting stage and a winners announcement, named individually for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2026 cycle shows the same nominations-then-voting split, with the voting stage open now.

How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for both.

Why the split matters for a nominee

Skipping a given year's nominations stage entirely kept a business off that same year's voting page in the cycles archived so far, since the ballot only lists names the nominations round already gathered. Anyone weighing a Westmoreland push this year should treat the current voting window, open through October 5, 2026, as the only stage where a vote is actually possible right now, and watch tribweb.secondstreetapp.com directly once this cycle closes for whenever a Westmoreland nominations page reopens for 2027.

Westmoreland beside its three same-week regional partners

Four Tribune-Review ballots run on an identical September 3 through October 5, 2026 window this cycle: Westmoreland, Allegheny East, Allegheny North and Allegheny Southwest. All four sit under the same Tribune-Review organizer listing on Second Street, and all four open and close on the same dates, sharing one company calendar rather than four independently scheduled ballots. None of that means one region's results carry into another.

A Westmoreland business gets judged only against other Westmoreland nominees in its own category; nothing about a strong showing on the Allegheny East ballot page moves a Westmoreland result either direction. Elsewhere in the same metro, Best of the 'Burgh runs as a wholly separate program under Pittsburgh Magazine rather than Tribune-Review, worth knowing before assuming every Pittsburgh-area "best of" ballot shares one set of rules.

What a Westmoreland push can responsibly say before October 5

Voting is open now, not a future date to plan around. A Westmoreland nominee's realistic window for reaching supporters is whatever remains before October 5, 2026 closes the current cycle, and the safest message names the exact ballot: Tribune-Review's Westmoreland voting page on tribweb.secondstreetapp.com, spelled out plainly enough that nobody clicks through to a different Tribune-Review region by mistake.

Because no per-voter limit is published for Westmoreland, a campaign should ask real supporters directly and repeatedly rather than assume any one household's ceiling; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before promising a specific number of votes to anyone. Is buying votes legal lays out the line between a legitimate supporter push and a risky one, worth reading before spending real budget chasing a Westmoreland finish, and award-style vote campaign planning walks through the same nominate-then-vote shape this ballot follows. Package pricing for a supporter-reminder push runs the same structure across every Tribune-Review region on this list, Westmoreland included.