Westminster Best Of The Best: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Westminster Best of the Best, and who runs it?

Westminster Best of the Best is a readers' choice program built around the city of Westminster, Colorado. Its organizer, Colorado Community Media, promotes the survey in its own copy as an "annual readers survey" and asks local readers to show love for their hometown favorites. That language places the program firmly in the best-of vertical: a publisher-run recognition ballot rather than a sweepstakes, a prize draw or a judged panel.

The balloting venue is Second Street, a platform that hosts readers' choice and bracket contests for publishers across the country. Colorado Community Media runs the survey from its own Second Street app domain, and the published address for the latest edition is https://coloradocommunitymedia.secondstreetapp.com/Westminster-Best-of-the-Best-2025/. Anyone who wants to weigh in during an open round goes to that form directly; no separate app download or third-party portal sits between the reader and the ballot.

The survey's scope is deliberately local. Where statewide and metro-wide titles spread their categories across a broad region, this program keeps the map tight, which is why the organizer leans on the phrase "hometown favorite." A reader voting here is weighing in on favorites connected to Westminster itself, not on a regional shortlist.

Summarized in a line: Colorado Community Media, Westminster, Second Street, a spring window, and a public ballot.

When has the survey run, and what dates govern the 2025 ballot?

The organizer's own description sets the rhythm. "From March 1 to April 15 every year, your voice can join in this celebration," Colorado Community Media's survey copy reads, tying the round to a fixed spring span rather than a floating schedule. A companion promotion pushed readers to act "Until April 15," which matches the close of the 2025 voting round.

Editions of the Westminster Best of the Best are confirmed for 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The years 2019 and 2024 do not appear in that span; whether the survey paused in those years or simply went unlogged is not stated in the organizer's published material.

If the every-year framing holds, the next window would arrive in 2026. Colorado Community Media had not posted a 2026 start date in the material surrounding this survey.

Practical details also stay off the page. The publisher prints neither the category lineup for a given year nor its voting rules, which would cover any per-supporter limit or eligibility term; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter cast a ballot in the Westminster survey?

Casting a ballot here is a short errand. While the round is open, a supporter loads the published Second Street address for the current edition, and the form appears in a standard browser window. The categories the organizer loaded for that year display on the page, each with its own field to complete.

The sequence, in order

Timing comes first: the round has to be live, which in the 2025 edition meant acting before the round shut. The supporter then works down the form, marking a favorite wherever they hold an opinion, and submits. If the page requests an email, a sign-in or nothing at all, its on-screen prompts are the authority for that edition.

Nothing in the flow calls for special software. The ballot behaves like any other web form: load it, mark the picks, send them. Supporters who rally others usually pass along the address itself, since every vote counted in the standings originates on the organizer's own form.

Where does this ballot sit among Colorado's readers' choice programs?

Westminster's survey sits inside a wider Colorado family of readers' choice ballots. Neighbors include Top of the Town, Best of Denver from Westword, Best of NOCO, Best of the Springs, Best of Summit County and Best of the Boat. Each draws its own map and its own audience, from metro magazines to resort-region titles.

What makes the Westminster ballot its own case

Scale and identity. It is a single-community program tied to the communities Colorado Community Media serves, not a metro magazine franchise or a resortwide poll. A nominee here competes for attention inside a single town's readership, which changes how support gets rallied: personal asks and local followings carry more weight than broad regional reach.

The nearest relative is editorial rather than geographic. Colorado Community Media also runs a Best Of The Best ballot for Golden, covered at the Golden page. The two share a publisher; each community votes on its own form. Read together, they show how the same survey idea flexes across different suburban markets.

How can a nominee earn more support during the round?

A nominee's most dependable tools inside this survey are ordinary ones. The round runs for a generous stretch of spring, which leaves room to ask customers, clients and regulars in person, post the ballot address where those people already look, and follow up as the close approaches. The organizer's own pitch, backing your "hometown favorite," is an invitation supporters can repeat in their own words.

On outside help, the organizer's published material for this survey stays silent, so any effort involving paid support should be weighed against the ballot's on-page terms. Practical tactics that transfer from other readers' choice formats, including the question of lifting a nominee's totals, are gathered in our guide to earning more support.