Rhode Island Online Voting Contests

Providence Journal RIIL Girls Basketball Player of the Week

The Providence Journal, in partnership with the RIIL, runs a weekly in-season fan vote for girls basketball built entirely from photos coaches text in of their own scorebooks. Several nominees compete each week; the winner is named the following week.

Rhode Island Friday Night Rivals Matchup Vote (WJAR NBC10)

Providence · WJAR NBC10 Providence

Rhode Island now runs three separate high school football fan votes at once. WJAR NBC10's is the odd one out: it picks a game, not a player. Fans choose which matchup gets NBC10's live Friday night broadcast crew, and the schools involved, not any single athlete, are the actual nominees.

Rhode Island High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Rhode Island · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Statewide weekly fan-vote poll run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group) at si.com/high-school/rhode-island, open to all RIIL-member schools across Rhode Island's fall, winter, and spring sports seasons. Free, no registration required.

Rhode Island High School Baseball Athlete of the Week (High School on SI)

Statewide Rhode Island · SI / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

High School on SI pools Rhode Island baseball nominees into its shared, year-round Athlete of the Week ballot at si.com/high-school/rhode-island once the RIIL spring season opens. Unlike Massachusetts's dedicated baseball ballot with its own named winners, no standalone Rhode Island edition is independently confirmed. No account is needed to vote.

Rhode Island High School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week

Statewide Rhode Island · SI / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

A winter, boys-basketball-specific edition of High School on SI's Rhode Island Athlete of the Week franchise would sit on the same si.com/high-school/rhode-island hub that already runs an inferred fall football edition and a pooled softball ballot. SI confirms Rhode Island boys basketball rankings coverage for the 2025 season on that hub, but no dated post yet confirms a standalone weekly vote for the sport.

Rhode Island High School Football Athlete of the Week (High School on SI)

Statewide Rhode Island · SI / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

A fall-only, football-specific edition of High School on SI's Rhode Island Athlete of the Week franchise, hosted on the same si.com/high-school/rhode-island hub that carries the year-round all-sport ballot. Neighboring New England SI franchises in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont run this same split-edition pattern, and it runs alongside, not instead of, WPRI's separate Blitz 12 poll.

Rhode Island High School Football Player of the Week (WPRI Blitz 12)

Providence · WPRI-TV CBS 12 Providence

WPRI-TV CBS 12 Providence runs the Blitz 12 Player of the Week fan vote for Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts high school football. The field is 3 nominees, voting is capped at one vote per IP address and browser, and the poll closes Wednesday at 7 p.m. — not Sunday or Monday like SI's national franchise. Winners are announced Thursday on 12 Sports broadcasts.

Rhode Island High School Multi-Sport Athlete of the Week (High School on SI)

Statewide Rhode Island · SI / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Free weekly fan vote from High School on SI pooling Rhode Island's winter and spring nominees, basketball, wrestling, and swimming, then baseball, softball, track, and lacrosse, into one shared si.com/high-school/rhode-island ballot outside football's fall edition. SI's confirmed National Girls Athlete of the Week ballot nominates Rhode Island athletes onto a 50-state field. No account required.

Rhode Island High School Softball Athlete of the Week (High School on SI)

Statewide Rhode Island · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Free statewide fan vote from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/rhode-island naming a weekly Athlete of the Week across every RIIL sport. Softball nominees join the shared spring ballot from mid-March through early June, alongside baseball, track, and lacrosse. No account is required, and the platform does not publish a fixed vote cap.

SI National Boys Athlete of the Week: Rhode Island Nominees

Statewide Rhode Island · High School on SI / Sports Illustrated (SBLive Sports network) — national platform

High School on SI runs a weekly, nationwide Boys Athlete of the Week vote at si.com/high-school/national, pulling nominees from all fifty states onto one combined ballot. Rhode Island, the smallest state in the country, still lands athletes on that field on a regular basis, competing directly against much larger states.

WPRI 12 Team of the Week (Rhode Island)

Statewide Rhode Island (WPRI market) · WPRI 12 (CBS Providence, Nexstar Media Group)

WPRI 12 runs Team of the Week at wpri.com/sports/team-of-the-week/, a confirmed-active Rhode Island high school sports fan vote that names a program, not one athlete, as its weekly honoree. The station has not published a vote cap, close day, or nomination process, so campaign timing should follow whatever the live page states each week.

WPRI Blitz 12 Athlete of the Week (Rhode Island Football)

Statewide Rhode Island (WPRI market) · WPRI 12 / CBS Providence (Nexstar Media Group)

WPRI 12's Blitz 12 fan vote names a Rhode Island high school football Athlete of the Week from a three-name field every fall week. Voting opens Sunday and closes Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern; WPRI announces the winner Thursday. No account is needed to cast a vote at wpri.com.

Best of Newport County (Newport Life Magazine)

Newport County · Newport Life Magazine

Newport Life Magazine runs Best of Newport County, a readers'-choice awards program covering Newport County, Rhode Island, at newportlifemagazine.com/nlm-best-of-newport-county/. The magazine's own page confirms two editions, 2025 and 2026, and states that the 2026 awards' nomination period had already closed, with the voting period set to begin in September. A published note on the same page adds that a tie during nominations can push a single category past its usual five nominees. A complete category roster and any per-voter limit stay unpublished beyond that; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Rhode Island

Annual Rhode Island Monthly readers' poll covering statewide and regional business categories, with online public voting each March and winners celebrated at a summer gala.

Best of RI (Rhode Island Monthly)

Rhode Island Monthly's annual Best of RI readers' poll, now in its 33rd year for 2026, splits voting into statewide categories and regional sections such as South County and West Bay at rimonthly.com/vote/, with winners honored at a gala confirmed for July 23, 2026 at the WaterFire Arts Center.

Call & Times Community Choice

Call & Times Community Choice is an RI Media Group ballot on the Second Street platform at westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com, the host confirmed for Westerly, Rhode Island. Three editions are confirmed, 2024 through 2026, with the current window running July 18 through September 14. RI Media Group also runs two other named ballots on the identical web address, Reader's Choice 2026 and SRI / IND Readers' Choice 2026, each with its own separate result.

CommunityVotes Pawtucket

Pawtucket · CommunityVotes Pawtucket

CommunityVotes Pawtucket, organized through a local CommunityVotes partner at pawtucket.communityvotes.com, shows back-to-back dated editions for 2025 and 2026, a steadier trail than several other CommunityVotes markets in Rhode Island can currently claim. The 2026 stage sits in active voting now, opening Wednesday, August 26 and closing Sunday, September 27. A published category breakdown and a repeat-voting rule are both absent from that page. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle for either one.

CommunityVotes Providence

A Metroland Media readers' poll for Providence-proper businesses only, running nominate-then-vote across 120+ categories and awarding four tiers, Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze, plus a separate Top Pick honor.

Motif Bartender Awards

Motif Magazine, the Providence alt-weekly, organizes the Bartender Awards, a statewide public vote for Rhode Island's bartenders, and runs it directly on its own site at motifri.com rather than through an outside voting platform. Three editions are confirmed on the site itself, 2022, 2024, and 2025, with the most recent cycle's results already published as the 2025 Bartender Awards Winners page. Which bar categories make the ballot, how often a single supporter may vote, and when the next nomination or voting stretch begins are questions Motif has left open; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

Newport Restaurant Week

Newport Restaurant Week, an annual dining promotion in Rhode Island's highest-income local market, pairs participating-restaurant menus with a public diner vote held during the event week itself, though the organizers publish few other specifics beyond the annual cadence and the dine-then-vote structure.

PBN Best of Business

Providence Business News runs an annual Best of Business recognition covering Rhode Island's B2B community, blending reader input with PBN's own editorial review rather than a pure public vote tally. PBN, the state's leading business publication, publishes results as themed lists at pbn.com/lists/; confirm the current cycle's categories directly on the site.

Providence Journal Community Choice Awards

The Providence Journal's (Gannett) statewide Community Choice Awards, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform: a nomination round narrows every category to five finalists, then Rhode Islanders vote across 450+ businesses.

RI Food Fights People's Choice

RI Food Fights, tied to Rhode Island Monthly, runs single-category restaurant showdowns through the year, Best Sandwich RI in March, the Big Burger Blowout in May, Best Iced Coffee in July, and more, judged by a passport-style people's choice public vote at each event.

RIBA Parade of Homes (Rhode Island)

The Rhode Island Builders Association runs an online people's choice vote for its annual Parade of Homes, a showcase kept separate from RIBA's Home Show. The public votes at ribuilders.org for entered homes and builders. Exact categories, dates, and vote caps are not published here; confirm them on the live RIBA site each cycle.

Southern RI Chamber Choice Awards

The Southern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce runs its annual Chamber Choice Awards at srichamber.com/chamber-choice-awards, blending public community voting with chamber judging rather than a pure fan-vote tally. The program serves South County's business community, a different animal from Rhode Island Monthly's statewide poll and the two weekly prep-football fan votes running elsewhere in the state.

SRI / IND Readers' Choice

A single confirmed edition is the entire history behind SRI / IND Readers' Choice, RI Media Group's Second Street ballot for Westerly, Rhode Island. The current 2026 window runs July 16 through September 14 at westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Voices of the Valley (The Valley Breeze)

The Valley Breeze's Blackstone Valley readers' poll: 162 categories, pure nomination-then-vote, covering Cumberland, Lincoln, Woonsocket, North Smithfield, North Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls.

Westerly Sun Reader's Choice

Nominating and voting for Reader's Choice, the readers'-choice ballot for Westerly, Rhode Island run by RI Media Group, publisher of the Westerly Sun, runs July 16 through September 14, 2026 on westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com. 2020 and 2026 are its two confirmed years so far. Past that window, whatever Reader's Choice ultimately requires for categories or vote limits shows up only on Westerly's own live ballot, confirmed fresh each cycle.

The Real Housepets of Rhode Island Pet Calendar Contest

The East Greenwich Animal Protection League runs The Real Housepets of Rhode Island Pet Calendar Contest, a photo fundraiser called Heart of RI hosted on the GoGo Photo Contest platform at gogophotocontest.com/heartofri. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2025 and 2026, with the organizer's most recently confirmed voting activity falling in October. The organizer's own page states that the 12 photos collecting the most votes earn a spot in the following year's Heart of RI calendar. A ballot category list and any per-supporter vote limit are not published beyond that; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Westerly Sun Cutest Pets Contest

Westerly · Westerly Sun (RI Media Group)

Westerly, Rhode Island's daily newspaper, the Westerly Sun, runs the Cutest Pets Contest through RI Media Group. Voting happens on Second Street's westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com listing. 3 separate contest years are confirmed there: 2017, 2021 and 2025, with the most recent round open March 20 through April 11, 2025, now closed. Past that window, whether a photo can be entered in a specific category or how often one supporter may return stays unwritten, so a pet owner should confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than guess.