Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest and who runs it?

The Endless Mountains Visitors Bureau, the tourism organization behind visitor promotion for the Tunkhannock area of Pennsylvania, stages a December competition that turns the whole town into the exhibit. Participating homes and businesses decorate for the holidays, and the bureau opens a public ballot on which anyone following its channels can choose favorites. The program carries the name Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest, and the bureau treats it as a community event as much as a contest, since the displays are meant to draw residents and visitors out to look at the stops around town. Hosting is the detail that separates this ballot from most reader-choice programs. The bureau keeps the vote on endlessmountains.org itself, the same domain it uses for visitor information, rather than handing it to a polling service. The table below collects the fixed details a supporter or an entrant needs before visiting the ballot.

Item	Detail
Program	Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest
Organizer	Endless Mountains Visitors Bureau (EMVB)
Market	Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania
Vertical	Best-of, holiday decorating
Entrant types	Homes and businesses
Ballot address	https://endlessmountains.org/vote/
Ballot host	The bureau's own site
Paid voting	No

Anyone comparing this program with the larger Pennsylvania reader surveys should start from that difference: a tourism bureau running a seasonal civic vote, not a magazine running a year-round brand franchise.

When does the Tunkhannock decorating vote open and what editions are on the books?

Two cycles of this program are confirmed. Live ballots carried the Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest through 2024 and again through 2025, and the bureau's own announcement for the recent round called it the second annual competition, which puts the opening edition in 2024 and matches both edition years exactly. For the 2025 cycle the bureau kept the voting stretch short and seasonal. Its page stated, "Voting is open December 1-16 for the Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest," and invited supporters to "Vote for your favorite homes and businesses from December 1-16, 2025." A stretch spanning the first half of December gives the vote a clear rhythm: displays are fresh, holiday foot traffic in town peaks, and the result lands while the decorations are still up. The same announcement sized the field: "Thirty-three locations are competing in the second annual competition," spread across homes and businesses in town. Some details stay off the published page. The ballot separates entries into homes and businesses but prints nothing deeper about how displays are grouped; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Winning displays from earlier rounds are not named on the ballot page, and the bureau has not posted dates for the next December's round.

How does a supporter actually vote in the Tunkhannock contest?

The bureau's ballot page frames the task in one line: "Explore 30+ locations around town and choose your favorites!" That is the whole mechanic. A supporter opens endlessmountains.org/vote while the December window runs, works through the decorated stops the page presents, marks the homes and businesses they want to back and sends the ballot. The only printed constraint sits in the bureau's announcement: "One ballot per person, please." Nothing on the ballot page describes an account, a login or a verification step, so the practical path stays short: open the page, review the stops, pick favorites, submit. Choosing favorites, plural, is written right into the invitation, so the ballot expects more than one pick from each supporter. The stops are physical locations around Tunkhannock, so the invitation to explore pairs naturally with going to see the displays in person before choosing. Once the December 1-16 stretch closes, the ballot goes quiet until the bureau posts the next round.

How does this small-town vote sit beside Pennsylvania's other reader-choice ballots?

Pennsylvania's public-vote scene is crowded with publisher-run reader surveys, and this program sits apart from every one of them. Best of Philly comes from Philadelphia Magazine, Best of the 'Burgh serves Pittsburgh, Berks County Living Magazine runs Best of Berks, Lehigh Valley Style runs Best of the Lehigh Valley, suburban newspaper groups run the Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice, and the Erie Reader stands behind Best of Erie. Each is a broad, multi-category survey tied to a media brand and a metropolitan readership. The Tunkhannock Christmas Decorating Contest answers a different question. A tourism bureau runs it rather than a publication, it covers a single town rather than a metro region, and it carries one seasonal theme, holiday decorating, instead of dozens of categories. Its ballot sits on the bureau's own domain, while the large surveys typically ride on dedicated contest platforms. For a supporter, that difference matters in practice. This ballot rewards going out to look at displays in one compact town; the metro surveys reward mobilizing a customer base across a whole county or city. Reading this page beside its Pennsylvania siblings makes the trade-off obvious, and entrants deciding where to spend a season's effort can weigh the two models directly.

How can a Tunkhannock home or business draw more support in this vote?

The one-ballot-per-person request defines what campaigning means here. Repeat asks to the same person accomplish nothing, because the bureau's printed rule gives each supporter a single vote, so the practical goal is putting the ballot in front of people who have not taken part yet. The window matters too: with voting concentrated in the first half of December, reminders sent after the stretch closes are wasted effort. Three moves fit this ballot specifically. Share the endlessmountains.org/vote link directly, since the bureau runs the vote on its own domain and there is no intermediate platform to hunt for. Time the ask to the December stretch while displays are up and the topic is already on people's minds. And lean on what the ballot rewards, the chance to explore the stops around town, by inviting neighbors to fold the vote into a holiday outing. The site's guide to earning more online votes covers the general playbook, and the bureau prints no special guidance for entrants beyond its one-ballot request.