Virginia Online Voting Contests

Virginia High School Athlete of the Week

Richmond · Richmond Times-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises)

Free weekly fan poll at timesdispatch.com, run by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises), recognising standout Virginia prep athletes across all three VHSL sports seasons. Readers vote for nominees drawn from schools statewide — one vote per device per hour, no account required.

Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Week

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Weekly fan vote from High School on SI (formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming the Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Week every week from February through May. Free to vote, no account needed. Exact close day and any vote cap aren't published in advance. Check the live article each week.

Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Year

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

Annual season-end fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, recognising the top VHSL baseball player statewide. Editors nominate candidates from all six VHSL classifications; fans vote with no per-vote cap until the stated deadline at the end of the spring season.

Virginia High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

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

Weekly fan vote from High School on SI (si.com/high-school/virginia, formerly SBLive Sports), naming a Virginia boys basketball Player of the Week throughout the VHSL season, November through March. SI's Virginia staff sets a new nominee field each week; fans vote free, no account required, and neither cap nor close time is published in advance.

Virginia High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL boys basketball player once the postseason ends. SI's Virginia staff compiles the field; fans vote free through the embedded widget, no account required. Exact dates and any vote limit are not published in advance; confirm both on the live article each cycle.

Virginia High School Football Player of the Week (Roanoke Times / Timesland)

Roanoke · The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times runs SW Virginia's weekly reader-vote poll for high school football Player of the Week during the regular season, covering the Timesland area — Roanoke, Salem, Bedford, Pulaski County, Craig County, Botetourt, Alleghany, and surrounding Blue Ridge communities. The ballot closes Tuesday at noon, and a reader's majority — Brody Dawyot of Glenvar won Week 3 of 2024 with exactly 50.7% — is harder to build than it sounds in a six-name field.

Virginia High School Football Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL football player. The programme runs two ballots: a preseason defensive Player of the Year vote confirmed for 2025, plus the traditional end-of-season vote, both with no per-vote cap and open to fans statewide.

Virginia High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL girls basketball player after the postseason ends in March. It runs on the same hub as the boys ballot but as its own separate vote. Free to enter, no account, no published archive of past winners.

Virginia High School Player of the Year

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

Season-end fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, covering every VHSL sport and classification across all of Virginia. No per-vote cap; polls close at the stated deadline. Separate sport-specific polls — including football POY and baseball POY — run annually for Virginia prep athletes statewide.

Virginia High School Softball Player of the Week

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Weekly fan vote from High School on SI (formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming the Virginia High School Softball Player of the Week every week from February through May. Free to vote, no account needed. Exact close day and any vote cap aren't published in advance. Check the live article each week.

Virginia High School Softball Player of the Year

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

Season-end girls softball fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia. Editors shortlist standout VHSL pitchers, catchers, and position players after the spring season; fans vote online statewide with no per-hour cap until the stated deadline. Annual, free, covers all VHSL classifications.

Virginia High School Volleyball Player of the Year

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

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) recognizing Virginia's top VHSL volleyball player each fall, published at si.com/high-school/virginia. Nominees are drawn from all six classification tiers and every VHSL region. No account or per-vote cap; the public decides once nominations open after the season ends.

WHSV Fast Break Friday

Harrisonburg · WHSV TV3 Harrisonburg (Gray Media, ABC affiliate)

A weekly winter fan vote from WHSV TV3 Harrisonburg (Gray Media, ABC affiliate) that puts three nominated high school basketball plays, not players, on a Friday ballot during the November-through-March season. The sports desk posts the field at whsv.com/sports; anyone can vote at no cost, and there is no sibling ballot anywhere in the state built around a single highlight instead of a season-long stat line.

WTVR RVA Sports Awards

Richmond · WTVR CBS 6 Richmond (Nexstar Media Group)

The annual Richmond-region sports awards fan vote run by WTVR CBS 6 (Nexstar), culminating in a ceremony at the Altria Theater in Richmond. Fans vote free online across categories including Female Athlete of the Year, Male Athlete of the Year, Team of the Year, Youth Athlete of the Year, Youth Team of the Year, Fan of the Year, Moment of the Year, Event Impact of the Year, and Community Champion.

Best of Arlington

Arlington · Arlington Magazine

Annual Arlington Magazine readers-choice survey for Arlington, Virginia businesses, with 70+ categories, summer public voting, and winners published in the magazine's January/February issue.

Best of Ashburn (Ashburn Magazine)

Ashburn Magazine runs Best of Ashburn, a Virginia readers'-choice business ballot with three confirmed editions on the page: 2020, 2023, and 2024. Voting is conducted online each February. Past that, the page publishes no category roster, no vote cap, and no date for a fourth edition; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Charlottesville

Charlottesville · C-VILLE Weekly

C-VILLE Weekly's annual Best of Charlottesville readers' poll, run at bestof.c-ville.com/2026 and confirmed active across both the 2025 and 2026 cycles, covering Charlottesville, Virginia and the surrounding Albemarle County market.

Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine

Coastal Virginia Magazine's (CoVa Mag) readers-choice survey for the Hampton Roads region, with the 2026 final round confirmed live at bestof.coastalvirginiamag.com. The category list, vote cap, and exact dates simply haven't surfaced anywhere public yet, so confirm each on the live site every cycle.

Best of NoVA Readers Poll

Northern Virginia Magazine's annual readers poll at northernvirginiamag.com/best-of-nova-readers-poll/, confirmed active for both the 2025 and 2026 cycles, covering the shared Arlington, Fairfax, Alexandria, Loudoun, and Prince William readership as one regional ballot rather than the county-level programs Arlington Magazine and InsideNoVa each run separately nearby.

Best of Prince William

Prince William County · InsideNoVA (formerly Potomac Local)

InsideNoVA's annual Prince William County readers-choice awards, spanning 194 categories, with nomination followed by a full April public-voting window and winners printed in the June 26 newspaper edition.

Best of Richmond

Richmond · Richmond Magazine

Richmond Magazine's readers-choice awards program at richmondmagazine.com/best-of-richmond, confirmed active for the 2025 and 2026 cycles. Nobody has yet published a category list, voting window, or results venue for it, so this page states plainly what's known and what isn't.

Best of Richmond Downtown

Venture Richmond's annual Best of Downtown readers-choice program for Richmond, Virginia businesses, published as a news post at venturerichmond.com and confirmed active in 2025; the category list, vote cap, and dates aren't public, so check the live page each cycle.

Best of Roanoke

Roanoke · The Roanoker Magazine

The Roanoker Magazine's annual Best of Roanoke readers-choice awards, with contest details posted at theroanoker.com/best and voting handled on a separate address, vote.theroanoker.com. The 2026 cycle is confirmed active; category list, vote cap, and close date are not yet public and should be confirmed on the live site.

Best of Smith Mountain Lake

Unlike the statewide BroadwayWorld theater awards also run in Virginia, Best of Smith Mountain Lake stays local: The Roanoke Times operates it on the Second Street polling platform at roanoke.secondstreetapp.com, covering the Smith Mountain Lake area near Roanoke rather than the whole state. Three rounds are confirmed, 2019 through 2021, the most recently documented one running August 1 through October 21 with a once-a-day vote limit across the categories the ballot listed. Nothing published points to a round after 2021; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming this year's contest looks the same.

Best of Virginia

Virginia Living Magazine's statewide reader-choice awards, split into five regional sub-ballots across 100+ categories, with winners announced each May.

Best Summer Camps (Northern Virginia Magazine)

Best Summer Camps, run by Northern Virginia Magazine at northernvirginiamag.com, asks Northern Virginia families to vote for their favorite camps. The confirmed 2026 poll closes Friday, August 29 at 11:59 p.m. Three confirmed years anchor this poll so far, 2021, 2022 and 2026. Exactly when the 2026 poll opened, which categories it sorts camps into, and any limit on repeat voting go unstated on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual Central Virginia theater fan vote, hosted at broadwayworld.com/norfolk/awards/ under the platform's Norfolk market segment despite the Central Virginia name, with the 2025 cycle's winners published in January 2026.

BroadwayWorld NOVA Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual Northern Virginia theater fan vote, hosted at broadwayworld.com/novaregion/awards/ as the platform's Regional Awards series, with categories, nominees, and dates unpublished here; confirm the current cycle directly on the live page.

Carroll News Best Christmas Lights Display

Hillsville · Carroll News

Two confirmed editions, 2024 and 2025, make up what Carroll News has run of its Best Christmas Lights Display, a photo-voting contest at carrollnews.secondstreetapp.com for Hillsville, Virginia. The most recent round closed December 29, 2025, after opening December 2. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Carroll News Gemini Awards

Virginia's Carroll News Gemini Awards is an annual readers-choice ballot run by the newspaper Carroll News on the Second Street platform at carrollnews.secondstreetapp.com. Five editions are confirmed: 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with 2022 the one year missing from that span. The 2026 ballot opened January 21 and closed February 19, already finished for this cycle. A category list and any vote-cap or eligibility rule are not published; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Chesapeake

Three confirmed editions, 2023, 2024 and 2026, back CommunityVotes Chesapeake, Virginia's readers'-choice business ballot from a local CommunityVotes affiliate at chesapeake.communityvotes.com. The 2026 voting stage ran through August, and the page already shows results and thanks supporters for taking part. Category names and any per-supporter vote limit are missing from the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Newport News

CommunityVotes runs CommunityVotes Newport News, a readers'-choice business ballot for Newport News, Virginia, hosted at newportnews.communityvotes.com through a local affiliate. Editions are confirmed for 2023, 2025 and 2026, with nothing published naming a 2024 edition for this particular market. The 2026 voting stage closed in August, and the page already shows results with a note thanking participants. Category names and any per-supporter vote limit are missing from the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Norfolk VA

Norfolk, Virginia is home to CommunityVotes Norfolk, run by a local CommunityVotes partner. The program's page confirms two prior rounds, 2024 and 2026, and by August 2026 the site had already posted results and named winners for the current cycle. Categories and a per-voter limit sit outside anything published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before the next round opens.

CommunityVotes Roanoke

Where do Roanoke, Virginia supporters go to back a favorite business? roanoke.communityvotes.com, operated through a local CommunityVotes partner. Two editions back this ballot, 2023 and 2026, and by August 2026 the page had already swapped its ballot for a results announcement naming winners. Neither a category list nor a per-voter rule is published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Suffolk VA

Suffolk, Virginia hosts CommunityVotes Suffolk, a ballot a local partner runs on behalf of the national CommunityVotes network at suffolkva.communityvotes.com. Three confirmed editions stand behind it, 2023, 2025 and 2026, skipping 2024 entirely. The most recent cycle's August 2026 voting window has already closed, and the page currently shows results rather than an open ballot. Neither the categories a business can enter nor any limit on repeat voting appear anywhere on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Progress Charlottesville Readers' Choice

Charlottesville · Daily Progress (Lee Enterprises)

Daily Progress's annual Charlottesville readers' choice ballot at dailyprogress.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2025/, run separately from C-VILLE Weekly's own Best of Charlottesville poll. Categories, vote caps, and exact dates are not yet public; confirm each on the live ballot page every cycle.

Richmond Parade of Homes

Richmond · Home Building Association of Richmond (HBAR)

Home Building Association of Richmond's annual Parade of Homes, promoted at hbar.org/richmond-parade-of-homes and richmondparadeofhomes.com, includes a people's-choice public vote; exact dates, categories, and caps aren't published on either site.

Style Weekly Best of Richmond

Style Weekly's annual Best of Richmond Readers Poll, the Richmond alt-weekly's readers-choice program under Post Media, published at styleweekly.com/best-of-richmond-readers-poll-2026/. The 2026 cycle's issue is confirmed published June 9, 2026; categories, the voting window, and any cap aren't documented elsewhere, so check the live page each cycle.

Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue Calendar Photo Contest

Richmond · Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue

Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue runs its Calendar Photo Contest as a fundraiser for the group's Great Pyrenees dogs, hosted on GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/agprescue. The rescue's own headquarters sit in Richmond, Virginia. What the page actually proves is thin: one confirmed contest year, 2019. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A live cycle is currently building toward a calendar cover dated 2027: the dog pulling the most votes takes that cover and shares the January page too, while every other submitted photo is assigned to one of the remaining months. No category list and no per-voter limit appear anywhere on the confirmed page.

AWLA Calendar Contest (Animal Welfare League of Arlington)

Arlington

The page for the AWLA Calendar Contest currently reads "Contest has ended," with the resulting 2026 calendars on sale, so what's confirmed right now is the shape of the program rather than an open vote. The Animal Welfare League of Arlington runs it through GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/awlarlington, where every vote is a donation to the league. The most recently completed cycle ran October 20-31, 2025 and raised $52,230. Archived editions place confirmed runnings in 2025 and 2026; the exact opening date for the next window isn't printed there. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Carroll News Cutest Pet Contest

Hillsville · Carroll News

The Carroll News, a weekly newspaper based in Hillsville, Virginia, runs the Cutest Pet Contest through the Second Street platform at carrollnews.secondstreetapp.com. Six editions are on the books, 2020 through 2025, with the 2025 round running October 22 through November 26, 2025, before closing. It is a photo-vote format: pet owners submit a picture, and readers vote for their favorite. Neither a roster of ballot categories nor a rule capping how often one supporter can vote is printed on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.