Wyoming Online Voting Contests

Sheridan Press Athlete of the Week

The Sheridan Press's own weekly fan-vote poll for Sheridan County high school athletes, hosted independently on Second Street App — separate from the statewide WyoPreps/Townsquare vote used across the rest of Wyoming. Anyone can vote online, and a new ballot goes up each week of the school sports season.

Wyoming High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Wyoming · WyoPreps (Townsquare Media Casper)

Statewide weekly fan poll and editorial award run by WyoPreps — Wyoming's dedicated high school sports platform — honoring one male and one female student-athlete each week across all WHSAA-sanctioned sports, all four classifications, and all 72 member schools.

Wyoming High School Player of the Year

Statewide Wyoming · WyoPreps

WyoPreps runs an annual, sport-by-sport Player of the Year cycle covering 28 separate awards between August 2025 and August 2026, with a fan-vote component feeding each sport's honor. Coverage spans Wyoming's 1A through 4A classifications, from Jackson Hole to Sheridan to Cheyenne, with no login needed to cast a ballot.

Wyoming Milward Simpson Award

Statewide Wyoming · WyoPreps / Milward Simpson Foundation

WyoPreps and the Milward Simpson Foundation jointly present Wyoming's single annual statewide athlete honor. 2026 finalists are named at wyopreps.com, chosen through public deliberation with a counted fan-vote element rather than a raw leaderboard, and the winner is confirmed at a June 20, 2026 ceremony in Cody.

WyoPreps Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Wyoming · WyoPreps

WyoPreps' annual Basketball Player of the Year honor blends reader nominations, fan votes, and coach input across Wyoming's basketball season. The 2026 boys 3A-4A all-state list and Player of the Year call are confirmed and published on WyoPreps; a comparable girls program runs alongside it. No account is required to take part.

WyoPreps Football Player of the Year

Statewide Wyoming · WyoPreps

WyoPreps folds football into its statewide, 28-award Player of the Year program, running one nomination and fan-vote pipeline from August 2025 through August 2026. Football also gets a standalone honor: the 2025 3A-4A All-Conference roster WyoPreps published in November 2025. No football-specific vote page or confirmed winner name is separately archived.

WyoPreps Volleyball Player of the Year

The single-sport volleyball slice of WyoPreps' 28-award Athlete/Player of the Year series, sponsored by Premier Bone and Joint Centers and hosted on Townsquare Media radio pages such as kowb1290.com — a fan-nomination poll that advises, but does not by itself decide, the final WyoPreps staff call.

Best of Jackson Hole

Buckrail's 15-year readers-choice ballot for the Jackson Hole valley — a nominate-then-vote contest that pulled roughly 90,000 votes and over 7,000 nominations in 2025, with results published in a free Locals' Guidebook.

Best of the Bighorns

Sheridan Press runs Best of the Bighorns, a readers'-choice business ballot hosted on Second Street at thesheridanpress.secondstreetapp.com. Three confirmed editions back the program, 2024 through 2026, and the 2026 round combined nominating and voting on one page, running July 15 through August 15, 2026, a window that has already closed for the year. A category roster and a per-voter limit are two things this page has yet to publish; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for both. Sheridan, Wyoming is the only market Sheridan Press names for the ballot, separate from the CommunityVotes, Casper Star-Tribune, and County 17 programs run elsewhere in the state.

Best of Wyoming

Wyoming's only statewide readers-choice ballot: the Casper Star-Tribune runs it across 100+ categories, while Cheyenne, Laramie, and Gillette each have their own separate regional best-of contest.

Cap City's Best

Cap City News's annual Cheyenne readers'-choice ballot, branded this cycle as Cap City's Best: Readers' Choice 2026 at capcity.news/best/, built on the same page format County 17 runs in Gillette, and run under a separate organizer from the Wyoming Tribune Eagle's own Cheyenne ballot.

Casper Star-Tribune Best of Wyoming

Casper Star-Tribune runs Wyoming's statewide Best of Wyoming readers-choice awards annually at trib.com/contests/best-of-wyoming/. The Lee Enterprises paper opens public nominations for local businesses each cycle, a launch it confirmed on its own Facebook page with the line "Best of Wyoming has started! Nominate all your favorite businesses."

CommunityVotes Cheyenne

CommunityVotes Cheyenne is Metroland Media's annual best-of readers-choice program at cheyenne.communityvotes.com, the fourth such program confirmed running in Wyoming's capital. The site's "Promote Your Business" page confirms an active, business-facing operation verified live in 2025, though its full category list and vote cap are not published here.

County 10 Riverton Holiday Festival Home Decorating Contest

Fremont County, Wyoming's holiday home-decorating ballot runs through County 10 at county10.secondstreetapp.com, a Second Street nominate-then-vote page for the best-decorated houses of the season. County 10 has confirmed the ballot for two winters running, 2024 alongside 2025, and the most recent voting window ran December 8 through December 23, 2025. Past that window, County 10's own ballot page is what actually settles a category list or a vote limit, confirmed fresh each cycle.

County 17's Best

County 17's annual Campbell County readers'-choice program at county17.com/best/, branded this cycle as Readers' Choice 2026. Nominations closed April 19, public voting opened May 20, and County 17 confirms no pay-to-play placement, so a business's own turnout decides its category rather than a paid tier.

Laramie's Best of the Best

The Laramie Boomerang's annual readers-choice ballot for Albany County, 142 categories deep, that ends with an in-person awards banquet rather than a quiet online results post.

Oil City's Best

Oil City News's annual Casper and Natrona County readers' choice awards, confirmed at oilcity.news/best/ under the title "Oil City's Best: Readers' Choice 2025." A separate program from the Casper Star-Tribune's statewide Best of Wyoming ballot, run by a different local outlet in the same city.

Wyoming Tribune Eagle Best of the Best

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle's annual readers-choice ballot for Cheyenne and Laramie County, run on the same wyomingnews.com platform as the Laramie Boomerang's contest, in a capital-city market where three other best-of programs also compete for the same nomination.

For The Cutest Costume

Unlike Wyoming's best-of business ballots, For The Cutest Costume is a seasonal photo contest run by KOWB radio that asks the public to pick the cutest or spookiest costume entry. Voting takes place in November, with confirmed edition years in 2025 and 2026.

Wyoming Tribune Eagle Cutest Pet Contest

Unlike Wyoming's business best-of ballots, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle Cutest Pet Contest turns on one photo per pet, with Cheyenne owners submitting an image and the public deciding the winner at wyomingnews.secondstreetapp.com. A first round ran in 2025; the second, listed there as Cutest Pet 2026, ran April 20 through May 25 of 2026. No published roster of categories and no daily-vote rule exist on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.