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The ninth season of Vote for the Girls premiered on August 9, 2017 and ended on May 25, 2018. Ava Zinn officially announced Vote for the Girls's renewal in May 2017.

Ava Zinn returned for her ninth consecutive season with Thia Tola, Lanise White, Kendra Ray, Danni McClannahan, Kathi Jameson, and Karly Jameson returning for their fourth season; Nadia Lorenzo, Peta-Alyce Kaizer, Maribel Mort, Maci Blanca, Sophia Blanca, Natasha Gower, Jenny Riva, Tulissa Kümmert, Rachael Passalt, Hannah Wilson, Kylie Dwyar, Marti McDaniel, Breeanna Sorensen, Tim Doogan, Donna Doogan also returned for their second season. Additions to the moderator panelists include Carrie Ewan, Alexandra Moffitt, Marla McClinton, Kent Morgan, Sally Morgan, Jenna Monroe, Benjamin Donbar, Sonia Donbar, and Janet Webb, all joined the moderator panel. Also Kristina Chow, her wife Charlene, Karla Hansen, and Louis Durant all joined during the season.

Clark Jones returned for his fifth season as well as Luka Runecraft and Glenn Swaringen returning for their third with Phil Allen, Ted Shields, Steve Baker, Lydia Delagatto (formerly Bill), Jacqui Fountaine, Kye Sanchez, Devin Martin and Bria Savage (formerly Tavon) all returning for a second season. Fountaine, Martin, and Savage moved to the moderator panel after Karen DuBois, Hunter Diaz, Lauren Herman, Liza Black, Bryant Cortos, Shane Spence, Raquel Anderston, Sheena Anderston, Mark Watts, Chris Winfrey, Andrea Coolranch, Stephanie Reeves, Leanna Claussen, Eboni Hill, Diane Simon, Lauren Rodriguez, Kristin Cassidy, Erika Cassidy, and Dan Doakes all joined Zinn's Villains.

Archibald Coolranch did not return as a villain as he announced he is retiring as head villain . Kymberly Alvaraz, Tracia Matthewson, Hillary Matthewson, and Ann Dwyar also did not return after Ava Zinn announced her relationship with Alvaraz ended on May 31, 2017 while Tracia and Hillary Matthewson left the panel to focus on their journalism careers (Tracia Matthewson switched anchor positions with Alexandra Moffitt at WTOR-FTV) while Alvaraz moved back to her home state of Colorado where she eventually died on August 25, 2017. Coolranch's great-granddaughter, Andrea, took over.

Holly Everman died during production of the scheduled eighth season finale on May 23, 2017 and Perri Johnson died on April 24, 2017.

This was the final season to be recorded in Marion, Indiana as well as the final season to feature Glenn Swaringen, Ted Shields, Kent Morgan, Sally Brock, Peta-Alyce Kaizer, and Carrie Ewan, and the only season to feature Spence, the Anderstons, the Cassidys, Winfrey, Reeves, Ewan, Chow, Benjamin Donbar.

This season marks the first time one division (Purple Team North) in which all three moderators have been a winning moderator during the season (Rachael Passalt was the winning moderator after So You Think You Can Dance 14 flex pick Lex Ishimoto was decalred the winner making this Passalt's first win as a moderator in September 2017; Ava Zinn won as Chloe Kohanski and Zinn's local pick Addison Agen were respectively the winner and runner-up of The Voice 13, marking Ava Zinn's 13th win as moderator in December 2017; and Kendra Ray & Hannah Wilson's pick of Maddie Poppe was announced as the winner of American Idol 16, marking the second win for Kendra Ray but Hannah Wilson's first). Other moderator wins were Lauren Herman's pick of Darci Lynne Farmer winning America's Got Talent 12 (Herman's first win as moderator), Kylie Dwyar's pick of Jordan Fisher winning DWTS 25 (Dwyar's first win as moderator), Jenny Riva & Tulissa Kummert's pick of Evvie McKinney winning the first season of The Four (Riuva & Kummert's first win as moderator), Alexandra Moffitt's pick of Adam Rippon winning DWTS 26 (Moffit's first win as moderator), and Breeanns Sorensen's pick of Brynn Cartelli wining The Voice 14 (Sorensen's second win after The Voice 13).

For only the second time in VFTG's history, founder and host Ava Zinn did not host the spring cycle due to her being busy with her move from Marion to Fort Wayne, Indiana as well as relaunching her animated sircom Queen of the Willis (Karly Jameson, Rachael Passalt, and Kendra Ray rotated as guest hosts to fill in for Zinn). Zinn was present for the season 9 VFTG finale and the finales of The Voice 14, DWTS 26 and American Idol 16 that aired as the season premiere of the following season. It was also the first time a perfect regular season in which females have won both seasons of The Voice and American Idol and no make-up competitions were needed for the following season. It was also the first time the local (Fort Wayne) picks of Addison Agen and Christina Danielle dominated Vote for the Girls.