‘Dancing With the Stars’ Voting Change: What Fans Need to Know

Week 2 of Dancing with the Stars season 35 will feature the remaining 14 couples performing to viral music hits. During the first week of the DWTS competition, both Conner Leavitt and Sarah Jane Nader were eliminated. That prompts a slight change in the voting going forward that fans need to know.

During week 1, Dancing with the Stars fans needed to be vigilant in voting either “CONNOR W” for Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold or “CONNER L” for Leavitt and his partner, Adele Zaikman.

Now that Leavitt and Zaikman have been eliminated, social media updates from Wood and Arnold indicate that simply “CONNOR” is what fans must text to 21523.

Everything else regarding voting for Dancing with the Stars season 35 should remain as it was for the premiere week. Fans can vote online at dwtsvote.abc.com and by texting the contestant’s first name to 21523. Fans can vote up to 10 times per couple, per method of voting.

Arnold and Wood have shared the change in text voting for them via Instagram.

Arnold posted an Instagram Story showing that fans need to text CONNOR to 21523, and she noted it in a separate Instagram post, as well. She also shared, “We have been working so hard this week and we can’t wait for you guys to see this one tonight!!”

Based on sleuthing shared on X, formerly Twitter, the order of performances for week 2 is believed to be:

• Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy
• Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong
• Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess
• Julia Styles and Ezra Sosa
• Jackson Olson and Emma Slater
• Giada De Laurentiis and Alan Bersten
• Wood and Arnold
• Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach
• Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik
• Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov
• Guillermo Rodriguez and Witney Carson
• Taylor Hanson and Britt Stewart
• Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson
• Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas

As Dancing with the Stars fans know, the season 35 premiere included some impressive performances. Beginning with week 2, everybody will perform on the same night, as is standard in most seasons.

After the first week of performances, here’s where the couples stand with the judges’ scores:

• Shum and Johnson, Higgins and Ballas: 21
• Frech and Karagach: 20
• Dewan and Chmerkovskiy: 19
• Glenn and Pashkov, Stiles and Sosa: 18
• Cameron and Burgess: 17
• Hanson and Stewart, Wood and Arnold, De Laurentiis and Bersten: 16
• Olson and Slater, Miller and Armstrong: 15
• Nader and Bills: 14
• Leavitt and Zaikman, Ali and Ravnik: 12
• Rodriguez and Carson: 10

Who will be eliminated in week 2 of Dancing with the Stars season 35? Fans are already rallying for their favorites, and with a season jam-packed with talent and charisma, every vote truly counts.